Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by SirPereira » Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

askytb wrote: post #44

My current one is https://limnology.co/ , organizing the top 70k educational youtubers in 20 languages. Youtube's channel discovery is pretty bad, and I wanted an easy way to find new channels about the topics I'm interested in. Still a work in progress as the problem turned out to be a lot harder than I thought.

Really good stuff over there! However please make the distinction over European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. It was a bummer to me trying to go through “Portuguese” that are not European.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by GnarfGnarf » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 5:55 PM UTC

Bhurn00985 wrote: post #151

GnarfGnarf wrote: post #39

Puzzle solvers: Cryptoquote, Sudoku, Wordle. Display a chart that combines MyNetDiary and Fitbit logs. Correlate 1M bride & groom birth signs. Create election database from phone book. Battleship program (hard rules) Chart GQ EMF-390 EMR (electro-magnetic radiation) detection logs. Log oil furnace thermostat cycles (uses parallel & joystick ports). Convert county grave database to HTML pages for Website

any correlation found with the birth signs ?

Yes, a statistician I hired calculated a "p" of zero. A "p" less than 0.05 is considered significant.

I am not trying to prove Astrology. As a matter of fact, I am trying to prove that Astrology is bunk. However, the results are intriguing.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by dragonwriter » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC

GnarfGnarf wrote: post #172

Bhurn00985 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

any correlation found with the birth signs ?

Yes, a statistician I hired calculated a "p" of zero. A "p" less than 0.05 is considered significant. I am not trying to prove Astrology. As a matter of fact, I am trying to prove that Astrology is bunk. However, the results are intriguing.

> Yes, a statistician I hired calculated a "p" of zero

A lower p-value is generally better for the hypothesis, but a zero means you probably need a better statistician.

Just like a higher value for annual profit is generally better for your business, but if the accountant you hired says its ∞, you probably need a better accountant.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by c3534l » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

senorsmile wrote: post #158

c3534l wrote: post #72

I have a crackpot theory that two languages are related, so I'm writing a program to try to reconstruct root words that derive from a common language - using test-driven development.

Which two languages?

Too crackpot to mention unless I find something.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by knubie » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 8:00 PM UTC

darraghenright wrote: post #170

knubie wrote: post #37

A few years ago I discovered Anki (a spaced repetition app) for helping me learn Japanese. I immediately recognized the power of spaced repetition, but really did not like using Anki (it's pretty clunky and requires a lot of configuration to work right). I started building my own alternative, Mochi [0], which I wanted to kind of be a cross between Anki and Notion. I'm pretty happy with where it's at now and I've been…

I'm very glad I read this comment! I've recently started learning French and I'd threw together a simple flashcard app to practice what I'd learned. But without spaced repetition and the ability to categorise it's not that useful, and I quickly realised that I would end up spending more time coding than learning French if I continued! I've been trying out Mochi for the last few days and so far I'm very impressed. It'…

Hey sorry I just saw your comment. I think writing could be an effective way to reinforce learning (I am planning to add a text input component in the near future). but for languages I am much more bullish on listening / speaking. In other words, the first side of the card should prompt you to speak whatever word you're testing, and the next side(s) will actually have a recording of a native speaker speaking that word, either in isolation or in a sentence.