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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by abalaji »

TL;DR--an automatic xkcd recommendation bot. [1]

"Relevant xkcd" is a meme that's been a part of online communities for as long as the comic has had online notoriety. [2] I wanted to build a bot to see how true that was. I've got a lot of the hard parts completed (data collection / curation, initial models), sitting in my TODO box for quite some time and would love to pair up with a collaborator to get it across the finish line.

The idea is an automatic xkcd recommendation bot that takes advantage of the latest and greatest in NLP advances (a fine-tuned hugging face model). [3] I've already got the training data (reddit comments that mention "relevant xkcd") and each individual xkcd's notes from the xkcd wiki. [4, 5]

Feel free to reach out to me via email (in my bio).

[1] https://github.com/adithyabsk/relevant_xkcd

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/xkcd

[3] https://huggingface.co/models

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3cej2b/17_billion...

[5] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by spmurrayzzz »

aliljet wrote: post #24

I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…

I'd love to follow along once you get this started. Sounds like a lot of fun.

I'm personally limited on cycles currently (N.B. I am a cofounder / direct of eng. of an ISP that builds custom 802.11ax-over-mmWave last mile access networks and CPEs in-house), but since I have enough experience in that world I can probably jump in at points to help as I free up.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by jeofken »

This may be the edge of what is off topic, but I’ve looked for a long time.

I’ve worked on a compiler for a HM type checked language for a while. Since September last year I’ve been stuck trying to implement tagged unions (such as Maybe). I’ve got all other features.

I’m looking for a tutor who would write a type checker with me in a screen sharing session. I’m located in Dalarna, Sweden atm, but can do any timezone that fits. I want to pay for this as I am really really curious to find out how it works! It’d probably be no more than around 100 LOC for just the type inferrer.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by reidjs »

Not super tech focused at the moment, but I'm trying to start a surf community in the bay area. Main reason is that sometimes it can be tough to find a ride share to the beach and also to share surf conditions at diff. places (cameras are pretty limited)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by newaccount74 »

personjerry wrote: post #19

I'm ideating around productivity and todo lists, I'd love to talk with and bounce ideas with any UX designers interested in the space! Email in profile :)

One thing I've been looking for is a simple to-do list app that allows sharing/syncing cross platform.

There are some nice and simple to do list apps (eg. Notally on Android) that have no syncing. Then there are some platform specific solutions (eg. the Apple's Notes app) that work well on platform.

I've been looking for something just to share a shopping list with my SO, and all I could find were elaborate SaaS productivity suites with projects and deadlines and calendars and project management features, but nothing just for syncing a single to do list between an iPhone and an Android device.

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