Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Just completed my first webdev project today: https://gravity-doc.com/

It's essentially a 2D rigid body simulation reskinned to look like a text editor. At the moment it supports basic commands like copy, paste, save, etc. Also, there are cheatcodes.

I learned basic web development so that I could make this web app https://tpsteiner.github.io/public_companies_map/

I'm a CPA working as an external auditor for public companies filing 10-K financial statements. Looking for a job in public accounting is hard because audit firms do not have many differing characteristics. The one thing that is different is their clients. Clients are required to disclose their auditor, but obtaining a list of clients by firm/location is very hard.

My app uses public government data to plot US public companies on a map, and includes details on the firm that most recently audited their annual financial statements.

The data sources are: 1. a listing of all Form APs filed to the PCAOB (auditor-client relationship data), 2. SEC company data from the Corpwatch API database 3. Google search API for company locations

I started an open-source project in Python called Restless, to get more experience in both NLP / ML and security. Restless is anti-malware that's "always watching" (every time a file is modified or created, it's automatically sent to the classification pipeline, which uses a hierarchical attention network trained with PE header data).

https://github.com/jddunn/restless

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to speed things up with multiprocessing (Keras doesn't play nicely with that). It's definitely a proof-of-concept project as opposed to something that's a enterprise-level tool (otherwise probably wouldn't write it in Python heh). Mostly I just wanted to make a sick-looking CLI for once.

I've restarted work on https://ayahbyayah.com an iOS app which I originally released in 2012 as a simple app for listening to the recitation of a single Ayat (verse) of the Qur'an.

I've been performing intermittent upgrades over the years as I wanted to retain the simplicity, ease of use with a focus on providing the most accurate and clearest Ayat text in any app.

The latest update has incorporated word by word audio timings and advanced play back controls for a completely hands-free operation, even serves as a teleprompter for the Qur'an.

I've been trying to get into AI/ML/Deep learning because I feel like it will broaden the types of side projects I can undertake. I have one project in mind which involves analyzing written communication.

I've looked online for resources and I've found a bunch of Youtube videos that go over the high level concepts:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwIo3gDZCVQ

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njKP3FqW3Sk

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYj3fFJGjk

For reference, I have 0 AI/ML/DL experience but I having been coding for awhile and I'm familiar with Python. These videos are quite long but I plan to start building a small toy app to validate my understanding. I'm just not sure if I'm taking the best approach to learning these concepts. I want to start working with the various tools ASAP because I believe that I learn better by doing.