I had a hypothesis that the company where I work could benefit greatly from machine learning to replace some human labor. I spent the early part of the year teaching myself enough to be dangerous and the latter part of the year designing, building, and deploying our first deep learning system.
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#242I continued to work on intercooler.js: https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js http://intercoolerjs.org I'm trying to get people to reconsider the more traditional web development style of server-side rendering of HTML + HATEOAS.
Nice, I like it.
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#243I left a very good SW Engineering job in London, travelled for 3 months, pimped up my 2013's side project for 3 months and started selling it. Now I have created a company around it, been profitable for months.
Now I carry my boss-less/office-less job around the world as a Digital Nomad. Happy new year from Mexico!
My side project that became my job: https://readonlyrest.com
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#244We built a CMS that works anywhere, on any website, on any platform.
Works with React, Angular, Vue, etc., and any server side technology.
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#245I worked on building a python library for automated feature engineering called Featuretools (https://github.com/featuretools/featuretools/). I had been working on it for 2 years, but in 2017 we separated it from the rest of the codebase and made it open source.
Even though feature engineering is crucial for building machine learning pipelines, there are few formal methods for performing feature engineering. We see Featuretools filling a missing component in the software engineering stack for data science.
It has already been put to the test with our customers at my company, but we have also begun to release demos so that others can pick it up https://www.featuretools.com/demos.
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#246I worked on https://hook.io this year.
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#247Slowly building a generative music system in ClojureScript: http://ivanish.ca/diminished-fifth/
Not sure if that counts as "work", but it's certainly taken a lot of iteration to get it to where it is today. Here's hoping 2018 leaves me enough free time to keep chipping away at it.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did it go with the alcohol? I am going to try from Jan 1. Plan is to do at least 2 months. Do you think its better to cut it off in stages or just abruptly?
If you’re an alcoholic and drink daily, it can be very dangerous to stop cold turkey. If this is more of a lifestyle change, where you drink a few times a week but want to cut it out, I’d say (with zero scientific justification whatsoever) it’s sort of up to the person. Dietary and habitual changes for me have been easiest when made dramatically, but I know for many others that reduces quality outcomes. This is proba…
> If you’re an alcoholic and drink daily, it can be very dangerous to stop cold turkey.
Could you elaborate? I have plans to do exactly that Jan 1.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#249Had a great (and often stressful!) time helping raise my first son over the past four months and learning Python and Django developing Baby Buddy - https://github.com/cdubz/babybuddy
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#250Added 1,344 email examples to http://reallygoodemails.com/