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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#91
I'm working on a multi-lingual test generation suite intended for parsers.

I was shocked when I read about JSON interoperability issues and decided to build something to combat parser quirks and disagreements across multiple languages/implementations.

Essentially, it uses jinja2 templates to generate tests from yaml files.

Open to all sorts of contributions, especially test driving feedback from Info Sec. researchers and/or parser developers. Also, templates for new languages.

https://github.com/R9295/parserkiosk

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#92
post #60

We’ve (our team) been working on a generative, always-on interactive television show/game that uses a combination of machine learning, generative algorithms, and more, to create media content fully autonomously. We’ve been at it for 3 years now and have a fully working prototype, but recently our backend developer took a job at Amazon, so we’re short a dev to continue developing the project. Our stack is a combinatio…

Huh, this is some really cool/interesting stuff. Mind sharing your demo? How do you do the ML part, in house models that you deploy or do you call an API? Super curious about how you do this

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#94
post #70

I'm looking for some help improving the CSS for https://ramdass-search.net/ First and foremost it should be mobile-friendly, and I'm not skilled enough in CSS to make it happen in a short amount of time. The site should remain JS-free, so I don't want to use bootstrap or some other off-the-shelf framework. No compensation, I'm providing the site free of charge, your contribution should be considered a donation to the…

I can help with that.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#95
Hi, I'm Matthew, here's a project that isn't as technical as others, but still related to programming :)

I'm running a non-profit in Florida called Tampa Bay Python [0] that has a meetup group [1] of 1,800 members.

I'm looking for someone who is interested in growing the organization with me into a strong community name. We're funded mostly by donations and the rest out of my own pocket.

Some things I am planning on introducing in the coming months are:

- more hackathon and interview prep-like events

- more technical presentations (presented by myself & others who have asked to speak on a topic)

- a monthly newsletter about: python news, open job reqs, tips & tricks

Longer term goals are:

- perform multi-day workshops & training courses

- work with local universities to find volunteer contributors to the org

- find employers who are hiring and push candidates to their pipeline

- find other non-profit projects that need contributors

Our team is comprised of 2 others who are remote, so all async communication is held on Slack & Notion.

My background: write Python for day job as distributed systems engineer, but really enjoy working with people, especially newbies and self-starters.

If you're interested, reach out to me personally at: mgranda [at] tampabaypython [dot] org.

[0] https://tampabaypython.org/ [1] https://www.meetup.com/tampa-bay-python/

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#96

I'd like to make a website that provides movies and series recommendations based on your preferences. Like letterboxd but extended to series (and other things?) and with open data so that anybody can improve on the recommendation system. Got this idea browsing rotten tomatoes and realizing you can't order lists based on users scores. And the API is private. So, putting your score there is basically donating it to a p…

Heads up, themoviedb has a very robust API which is free and used by big services such as JustWatch and some streaming services.

https://www.themoviedb.org/

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#97
post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vector search is getting a lot of attention these days. Why is that?

Read about pinecone.io. Cut off a neural network that does image classification at the second to last layer and you have a system for creating meaningful vectorial representations. Then if you apply some distance metric to a bunch of these it turns out you can retrieve images that look similar to some query image. Problem is, scaling and doing this in real-time is hard. Use cases abound. This was only one. There are…

Thanks! Very helpful

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#98

Visualizing political data :) I've done various 'pet projects' over the years in this realm, from exploring political bias in word embeddings to simple voting maps showing regional shifts, to comparisons of actual crime vs fear of crime across various demographics. I've even gotten to partner up with actual journalism outlets. I love doing this stuff but I'd like to collaborate with others (either with technical or p…

Interested! How can I contact you?

Thanks! (https://nimishg.com/)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#99

Visualizing political data :) I've done various 'pet projects' over the years in this realm, from exploring political bias in word embeddings to simple voting maps showing regional shifts, to comparisons of actual crime vs fear of crime across various demographics. I've even gotten to partner up with actual journalism outlets. I love doing this stuff but I'd like to collaborate with others (either with technical or p…

how to check your work? do you have github?

(https://nimishg.com/showcase/) though I recently migrated the site so I'm actually not totally sure all the showcase links work. All of the code is on github (https://github.com/nimishgautam) but might take a little effort to get working on your own

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#100

Visualizing political data :) I've done various 'pet projects' over the years in this realm, from exploring political bias in word embeddings to simple voting maps showing regional shifts, to comparisons of actual crime vs fear of crime across various demographics. I've even gotten to partner up with actual journalism outlets. I love doing this stuff but I'd like to collaborate with others (either with technical or p…

Would love to have an open-database on political representatives. Some all-in-one source of info: - Where do they get their funding? - Their assets - Their political stances: voting records, statements to the press (multimedia: video, audio, press excerpts) - Their relationships: who their wife or children are working for? Who are they friend with (seems intrusive but it has a lot of influence on how they vote) The U…

I think this is more relevant in the US... in party-based systems it becomes much more interesting to see what the party trends are... it's kind of the same types of information but it's even harder to get at because it's spread out over a party. But it's also a little easier to see because parties have to coordinate internally and artifacts of that coordination are pretty easily available through public channels. But yeah, no hope of monetizing so a hobby it will stay.
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