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Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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#132An ios app to make roadtrip timelapse movies (video + gps = fun). This idea has been on my mind for ages so I finally sat down and built it.
This video, the very first upload, shows it in action. Bonus if you can guess where it is: http://youtu.be/-sFu7xAxt5c
The in-app playback has map route, speed, & direction overlays, not yet present in the video export.
It's not ready for the store yet, contact me if you'd like to beta test.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#133Building on Hofstadter's models of analogy-making to build pattern recognition algorithms that work in a more human-like way. At least, that's my hope! My background is in computational neuroscience, but I'm doing this on my own, mostly for fun. If it sounds interesting, I'd love some company! greg at gregdetre dot co dot uk
I'm no AI expert, but after reading both Hawkins' On Intelligence and Kurweil's How To Create A Mind, I'm pretty sold on the idea that our minds are basically pattern-matching machines. Lately I've been trying to spend a lot of time "thinking about thinking" and recognizing how I form thoughts, relate to memories, etc. I am not super familiar with Hofstadter's ideas, since I haven't (yet) finished even GEB, but the general idea is very intriguing to me. I'd be happy to chat with you sometime and bounce ideas around. You're almost certainly way ahead of me in terms of technical knowledge in this domain though.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#134Self Experiments: Its mission is to make inhumane animal testing obsolete by using “open suffer” collaboration of volunteer testers from around the world. The first experiment is launching next month: http://selfexperiments.com What could be more cool than that?
You'll never make animal testing obsolete, nor would it be a good idea to do so as the benefits from using animals in research are so immense, and most such experiments are not transferable to humans (e.g. genetically modifying humans is not viable.)
But it sounds like an interesting idea nonetheless - what experiments are you considering running?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#135A simple algorithmic stock trader. https://green-machine.us
Give it a set of rules and it will buy and sell stock for you. I got interested in algorithmic trading and built this site to find out if it works. If it does I'll add real money trading.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#136I'm working on an OpenFlow controller in my spare time. There's nothing too cool about it other than, it's written in Go and GPLv3 licensed. It's useable but I have a big update in the pipes. Once that update is done I should be able to port some existing OpenFlow applications to Go. https://github.com/jonstout/ogo
How are you testing the code/network?
Using mininet right now to do verification of message parsing and link discovery. Other than the latency calculations, link discovery seems to be working just fine. After I get this next iteration done I'll take it to the office (InCNTRE SDN Lab). We have a lot of 1.0 hardware to test against. Next I'd like to add path computation based on user defined weight functions.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#137I'm going to be rewriting my image booru engine ( https://github.com/asiekierka/boorushy2 - all demos are down ).
It's not cool. Nothing I make is cool. It never was. All I seem to make are boring, niche ideas... and not even I care about them. Since half a year, I haven't found anything that would interest me. I'm a man with low standards, I guess.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#138I have a limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom, and I am working on three projects that I hope will turn into profitable products.
* Main focus: Transactional and marketing SMS application, it's a little boring and lots of companies do it, but none are truly self-service, and none make it super-easy.
* Back burner: Digital asset management, again it's done by many companies already, but there UIs are mostly upload, tag and try to retrieve. I have a background in AI (B.Sc) and I want to make it a little smarter than what's currently out there, with uploads that detect previous revisions of digital assets, etc – finally putting to an end file naming conventions such as x_final.ai, x_final_2.ai, x_final_final.psd (something I have seen used by every company I have worked for.)
* And later: I'm into brewing beer, and I have been working on recipes for a few years – Ambition is to make enough money to survive with the two projects above, and to begin investing in building a microbrewery and brew pub.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#139Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so... It's cool because: * The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap (example: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eagles/hotel_california_ta... ). Soundslice is a 1000x improvement. * It solves a key problem for musicians, which is: when you're learning a new…
Really cool stuff.
Did you think about adding the feature of producing a combined video with the original video plus the overlaid tabs? That'd be nice so that people that transcribe can post back to YouTube.
I guess a lot of people will just search in YouTube and it'd be nice if those searchers could discover the content that the people at Soundslice are creating.
BTW (100% unrelated) - I took one of your YouTube guitar videos and added a couple of parts with BandHub: http://getbandhub.com/song.html?s=524e26a8cc8d46e238000001
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#140Self Experiments: Its mission is to make inhumane animal testing obsolete by using “open suffer” collaboration of volunteer testers from around the world. The first experiment is launching next month: http://selfexperiments.com What could be more cool than that?
You'll never make animal testing obsolete, nor would it be a good idea to do so as the benefits from using animals in research are so immense, and most such experiments are not transferable to humans (e.g. genetically modifying humans is not viable.) But it sounds like an interesting idea nonetheless - what experiments are you considering running?
A little friendly advice: don't ever tell someone what they can and can't achieve. It's impolite and the future is malleable.
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