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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by fxtentacle »

narenkeshav wrote: post #396

My name is Naren Keshav. I’ve built a product & built the legal structure for the company. It is a Canadian Incorporated startup. The product is iOS application with potential for scale & ride the next s-curve. On the face value, it is an augmented reality product. ## About me I’m passionate in what I do. With Master’s in Computer Video Games, I’ve worked in domains that would use three-dimensional geometry such AR,…

I think you could have summarized all of that into ...

I'm working on private AR post-it notes that you can stick anywhere.

... which sounds like a great idea. But with your links and sections and stuff, that comment comes off (to me) a bit as trying too hard.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by Kinrany »

outside1234 wrote: post #386
Kinrany wrote: post #382

I have too many ideas for side projects I want to do. I'd love to partner (or find a mentor!) so we can focus on a single thing and see how far we can take it. One idea: any two pieces of code should be able to communicate regardless of the languages they are written in and the transport between them. It's incredibly wasteful to keep writing client libraries and bindings from scratch every time. I think this can be s…

I think you might be looking for protobufs? Or am I misunderstanding the problem you are presenting?

Protobufs are too high level and too opinionated about the structure of the data. It may or may not be "the right tool for the job" depending on the problem being solved.

The goal is to have a schema language that is as universal as byte streams are.

This necessarily means that the language should be open to being extended with new custom types. (Implementations that don't understand a type can always fall back to treating a type as an unsized byte stream.)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by numeri »

desertraven wrote: post #286

I’m working on a search engine crawled by users themselves. If I think about it, I'm not interested in 99% of the web. Therefore I don't need to deal with exhaustively crawling the entire web. Hypothetically, if I could access only the sites visited by the HN crowd, that would be fine by me. Somebody in an art community might feel similarly. If there were some metric the crawlers could use to rate a page (time spent…

YaCy [1] already exists, but I've never tried it. I've been wanting to set it up (locally at first, not participating in the decentralized network, unless I really like it) to crawl only sites I choose to add to the list – I was thinking perhaps just blogs and documentation that I like, along with anything I bookmark.

That being said, I think YaCy looks dated, the website has several typos, and I get the impression that not many people are still active in the network. I feel that a new project with similar technology in a "hotter" language (just for popularity's sake) could get a lot more traction.

[1] https://yacy.net/

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by Buttons840 »

fxtentacle wrote: post #429
Buttons840 wrote: post #109

I'd love to research practical ways to apply modern machine learning techniques to video games. Video game AI techniques seem stuck in the 90s. Too many games have been limited by poor AI, and I want to fix that. I'm currently wanting to study bandit methods and tabular reinforcent learning. These are limited, but simple and predictable, which is important for games.

My team is currently leading the gocoder bomberland competition. I wrote a very very long thread in their discord (help channel) about all the RL AI stuff I tried and how things failed and what finally worked in the end. (Some people are participating as part of their university studies, so they asked for help on how to get started). https://discord.gg/NkfgvRN Even for a seemingly "simple" game like Bomberman, tabula…

Current game AI seems to love their decision trees, and I'm thinking more along the lines of how can you mix a few bandits into that tree or how to manually discretize the environment into a small table (not 1000+ states). I don't think games are going to give up their decision trees, but they might be able to mix in some simple machine learning techniques that make the AI somewhat adaptive.

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Post by fransje26 »

morphle wrote: post #405
dave333 wrote: post #368

I want to build a prototype experimental Skytherm roof on a garden shed or tiny house as a proof of concept to reduce home energy consumption for heating and cooling. See http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/30.html for the concept. The idea is to have shadable thermal mass on the roof that will gain solar heat during winter, but in summer operates in reverse shaded during the day to prevent heating, but op…

pls contact me at morphle at ziggo dot nl so I get you in contact with a tiny house builder who will test your prototype on his houses and land

> "Because of its reliance on radiative cooling, the Skytherm concept is best suited for areas of low humidity and clear nights"

Hopefully the tiny house builder has clients outside of the Netherlands. (-:

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by hapanin »

dummyvariable wrote: post #406
hapanin wrote: post #348

I want collaborate on publishable ML research. I'm currently working as a machine learning engineer, but doing a lot more engineering than learning. I'm also applying to PhD programs with focuses in knowledge graphs and common sense reasoning, but willing to learn any other field. If I don't get in then some independent research is still a good career move. I have ideas of my own (goal oriented question asking) but h…

Are you planning on doing a part time PhD? I am interested in the possibility, although I do not have a ML background.

I would do PhD full time since my current job is not for anything publishable or in my intended field of study.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by hapanin »

randomcatuser wrote: post #352
hapanin wrote: post #348

I want collaborate on publishable ML research. I'm currently working as a machine learning engineer, but doing a lot more engineering than learning. I'm also applying to PhD programs with focuses in knowledge graphs and common sense reasoning, but willing to learn any other field. If I don't get in then some independent research is still a good career move. I have ideas of my own (goal oriented question asking) but h…

how're you finding collaborators rn?

Like this lol

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by hapanin »

vaibkv wrote: post #377
hapanin wrote: post #348

I want collaborate on publishable ML research. I'm currently working as a machine learning engineer, but doing a lot more engineering than learning. I'm also applying to PhD programs with focuses in knowledge graphs and common sense reasoning, but willing to learn any other field. If I don't get in then some independent research is still a good career move. I have ideas of my own (goal oriented question asking) but h…

I'd like to collaborate on this too. lmk if you have any cool ideas.

Just the one I wrote my applications on: a method for training a model to ask clarifying or goal oriented questions using QA-GNN. My email is in my profile, we can talk there.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by hapanin »

fxtentacle wrote: post #428
hapanin wrote: post #348

I want collaborate on publishable ML research. I'm currently working as a machine learning engineer, but doing a lot more engineering than learning. I'm also applying to PhD programs with focuses in knowledge graphs and common sense reasoning, but willing to learn any other field. If I don't get in then some independent research is still a good career move. I have ideas of my own (goal oriented question asking) but h…

Most stuff doesn't get published because preparing things for publication is such a grind. 1. I have a complete optical flow training data set here. It is built specifically to highlight the shortcomings of some state of the art AI algorithms and (as expected) they fail on it. We used it internally to fix those issues on our own proprietary AI. To turn this dataset into a publication, someone would now need to get ac…

Those both actually sound quite interesting to me. What is your ideal collaboration setup / level of involvement with these? I'll start reading up. Please shoot me an email (see profile).

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by catern »

remram wrote: post #257
catern wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Running processes remotely? Supervising remote processes? These things. This is mentioned in http://catern.com/integration.html#thread

So this offers capabilities like `multiprocessing` but possibly across the network, e.g. queues and shared memory? Can it spawn the remote processes too? With SSH, or its own system? You keep pointing me to that document that you feel is compelling, but all it does is explicitly run a Python function in a local thread... I know it's meant as a shortcut in the example but it's hard to infer what the real capabilities…

>Can it spawn the remote processes too? With SSH, or its own system?

Yes, with rsyscall, is that not clear? It's pretty explicit in http://catern.com/integration.html#thread

>but all it does is explicitly run a Python function in a local thread...

That's not all that's happening. I think you might be pattern-matching what's happening in the article to something you've already seen, when in fact it's something novel.

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