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working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.

If you learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and C++ then your productivity was not zero.

That's what I thought too. I yearn for more time to learn

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I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

This is pretty cool. I took a couple CS classes in college, but then I went on to law school before eventually becoming a non-technical founder. After looking over the first several lessons, I'm going to give this a try and see how far/fast I can go.

I probably still won't be a primary coder at my startup, but at least I'll be able to make more sense of the JS that our devs write.

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As a side project, I'm working on a route planning app for running. I'm a long distance runner and travel for work a lot, so I frequently find myself planning a run on one of the many existing apps at 5am in a new city whilst jetlagged. My bugbear is that all the existing apps suck. I want a way to say "give me a running route that lasts approximately 10km and is as scenic (greenery, water, mountains, etc) as possibl…

Are you on Strava? In new cities I just look at their HeatMap to see where the locals are running.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I developed chronic hand pain a couple of years ago (probably from overworking), so I quit my job and I've been making Talon [1] since, with the goal of making it possible for anyone to efficiently do anything/everything on their computer (general use, programming, games, niche apps) without their hands.

Most recently I've been training acoustic models and writing a user frontend for the wav2letter++ [2] speech recognition engine, and porting Talon from Mac to cross-platform.

[1] https://talonvoice.com

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter

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working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.

As someone who recently discovered unaddressed ADHD has been holding me back so much for so long, as well as experiencing that numbness of depression too, you are not alone and I have felt at least some of what you are experiencing. I wish you all the best in working through it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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After a decade of R&D, I am (finally) building the first, true multi-model database kernel. All traversable data relationships (relational, polygon intersection, graph data models, time series, etc) are directly represented in a singular data structure that is nearly optimal and extremely parallel. No secondary indexing required whatsoever to access these relationships, so ideal for mixed workloads. Built on top of a new high-performance storage engine that has some neat computer science in it and brilliant performance specs compared to my prior designs (which were pretty damn fast).

This is likely my last database kernel design. I can’t think of many ways to materially improve the algorithms and design, and there are some other computer science research domains I previously went deep on that I want to get back to once I am finished with this.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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As a side project, I'm working on a route planning app for running. I'm a long distance runner and travel for work a lot, so I frequently find myself planning a run on one of the many existing apps at 5am in a new city whilst jetlagged. My bugbear is that all the existing apps suck. I want a way to say "give me a running route that lasts approximately 10km and is as scenic (greenery, water, mountains, etc) as possibl…

Try imaginerun.com. Imagine run wants to inspire people to start walking or running. The free app creates (three) possible routes via gps based on the distance and pace you set. All routes start and end at your current location, no matter where you are. The app is navigating you, so you can’t get lost at a place you are not familiar with.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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are you lifting weights and exercising? If not get on it ASAP. Revert back to the physical-activity-heavy lifestyle of our ancestors and you'll feel better

I walk a lot, but I'm thinking on start a video series with fitness exercises.

a pullup bar fit in a doorframe in apartment can do wonders + bodyweight exercises.

Just put your routine in a FOR-loop and grind for increased STRength and STAmina stats lol

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I've been working on a web app for discovering backpacking (as in hostels, not trails) destinations and planning trips - https://waystops.com.

I'm a very visual person and for a long time wished there was a browseable map of interesting places to visit and things to see and do when planning backpacking trips. I couldn't find anything that quite did what I wanted so thought I'd have a go myself.

The data itself is sourced from a combination of Wikivoyage and Wikipedia. The biggest features I'm looking to develop next are search and a way to leave reviews/comments on places and listings.

Still very early days but would love to hear any feedback.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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An automatic time series model finder.

The idea is to find a good model for predicting a time series given a set of other time series. Input is basically an excel file and output is a CSV file, expected to be delivered within a minute.

I mostly test it on power load and supply data but it should work on anything.

Also, it's free.

http://ausblick.cryptoport.net/en/index

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