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Post by angus-g »

morphle wrote: post #310

Collaborate with me on million times faster software with Squeak Smalltalk software for cloud- and supercomputers. A single virtual machine image with multiple cores and petabyte per second memory access speeds. The software also scales down to M1 Max or AMD Zen 2/3 with only 400 GBps memory speeds. You can speed up simulations, search engines, datamining all science papers, machine learning, pattern matching, revers…

This sounds fascinating! In HPC environments how do the images communicate -- I'm just assuming there's some form of distributed computing going on there?

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Post by bananarchist »

Do you have a bunch of unused cables tangled in a box? Hanging in a closet? STREWN ACROSS THE GUEST BED?

Do you find yourself purchasing a new tool or toy only to discover you need yet another USB cable to power it or one with a proper transfer speed for your setup? Or did your old tool or toy break leaving you with some bizarre proprietary(?) cable that you'll probably never have use for again?

Well I want to make a website where people can: 1) Inventory 2) Share 3) Identify all their unused cables. Why keep buying new cables and contributing to waste? Why keep storing a bunch of cables we don't use instead of giving them to people who can put them to use? And what the hell is this connector I founded tangled up with my XLR and DVI-D cable?

If someone wants to collab I think I've already got a killer name. Just haven't decided a TLD. My stack preference would be a backend using Haskell, Erlang, Elixir or Clojure. Frontend would NOT be an SPA, but I'm imagining some custom components (like a connector identifier and maybe a tabular inventory view) that I would lean towards using Elm for.

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Post by gamerDude »

This is more of a personal thing. I am creating better maps for DnD (Dungeons and Dragons). My goal is a google maps so that DMs and players will always have a map no matter where they go. I currently have some software in the works that can automatically turn a 2d map into a 3d rendering. Mostly looking for 3d design, map designer, and procedural generation skills.

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Post by mspdx22 »

I do research in programming languages, compilers, and program analysis for a living. I’ve got some ideas outside the day job in the same area I’m looking for collaborators on:

1. I am interested in exploring program synthesis techniques tailored for people who don’t want to go deep in learning PL theory or tooling. I am specifically interested in this related to some modeling and simulation projects I work on.

2. I have an old program refinement system I created a few years ago based on an ML derivative that I wouldn’t mind getting some feedback on.

More broadly, I’m happy to chat with people interested in PL ideas. Email in profile.

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Post by bkiran »

I'm a dev-ops engineer by day. I creating a simple to standup and use message queue(similar to kafka and rabbitmq) in Golang. As of right now, the project is solely to learn more about Go and internals of the commit log.

https://github.com/bdkiran/nolan

General things that could help with this project:

- Single node only, add distributed support(based on raft?)

- Improve or replace the custom protocol for sending and receiving messages(I wrote the current one, it's not pretty)

- Update the CLI to allow for managing topics

If you're interested in contributing to a Go project, in the area of distributed systems check out the repo or send me a message with your ideas.

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Post by ianbicking »

skyde wrote: post #199
kraig911 wrote: post #30

I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation. I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now…

I am a programmer and also a father, and working on using AI to revolutionize how we teach kid how to read. I noticed that a very simplistic LSTM neural network model is able to learn very quickly all the rules of pronunciation ex: - grapheme "EA" in “please” or "heat" is pronounced one way - but grapheme "EA" in « death » or " bread" is pronounced in a different way - but grapheme "EA" in "great", "steak", "break" i…

A concept I've thought about in this same area is some kind of color coding of words to help children learn how to decode words at the level of syllables. So for instance "please" might be "plea" and "se" – avoiding the sounding of of "pa la eh ah [no, they go together as an ee sound] sa eh? [silent e]". Lots of vowel insertion that makes it very hard to actually assemble those sounds into a word!

But in another way this could be a kind of overlay of information. Maybe it shows how words are split, maybe it's to disambiguate different pronunciations of "ea", ... I'm not sure what's the most important added information. But overlaid on the words it might be a kind of scaffolding that makes it easier for kids to successfully read words and gain the practice that makes it possible to remove that scaffolding.

There's a lot to think about there when it comes to reading (not to mention a ton of pedagogical knowledge)... I'm not sure I have the space to be a solid collaborator, but I do find this stuff interesting to talk about sometime...

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Post by robbiep »

photonpsd wrote: post #226

Hi, I'm working on solutions to currency inflation and would love some help. Similar to a COLA (cost of living adjustment) on your salary, I think people should receive a COLA on their savings. Inflation destroys economies and lives all over the world, due mostly to uncontrolled currency printing by gov't. And, as obvious as it may sound, we don't have to sit back and just accept it anymore. We can build tools that p…

Sorry I’m not sure I understand. You’re countering inflation by building inflation into crypto? Wont that just lead to runaway inflation, algorithmically determined?

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Post by [deleted] »

kraig911 wrote: post #97
pkdpic wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool sounding project, are you thinking of this as a hardware project or something that would run through a browser or as a stand alone app? Also what kind of art do you make? Im an artist working as a dev as well. I know we're out there but we're a bit rarer than I was expecting.

I'm thinking it'd be an app running on android/ios atm. Kids typically seem to gravitate to an 'app' and something running in a browser could lead to unexpected consequences if a parent wants to protect their kids from the greater web. I'd like for it to run in a browser if needed but it'd be easier for a kid to manage as an app. Look at youtube kids app as an example. As for art I love watercolor, gouache, ink and b…

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Post by Ingon »

bkiran wrote: post #315

I'm a dev-ops engineer by day. I creating a simple to standup and use message queue(similar to kafka and rabbitmq) in Golang. As of right now, the project is solely to learn more about Go and internals of the commit log. https://github.com/bdkiran/nolan General things that could help with this project: - Single node only, add distributed support(based on raft?) - Improve or replace the custom protocol for sending and…

Interesting, I’m working on a kafka-like SaaS, in golang also. For the moment I’m keeping events/messages in postgres, but I have always targeted to have a real commit log per topic in some unspecified future. I will take a look at what you’ve got!

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Post by TIPSIO »

panphora wrote: post #8

The web has gotten boring. I'm starting a static web host where every page is remixable by default. One click and you have a copy of any web page hosted on the platform. Not only that, but the front-end code (HTML, CSS, JS) is treated as the source of truth. Whatever changes the owner makes to a page (through DevTools, some custom JS, or clicking a button that does something) is saved permanently to the DB. This make…

I like this. Your messaging is a little weird to me.

The product seems less ‘the web has gotten boring’ and more ‘we are low code development’ — a happy fun place between no code development and the normal overly complex web development of today.

Which funny enough, I think your audience/clients are best for actually big boring development via some enterprise clients who require stricter security rules or giant less skilled employees with occasional custom requirement (imagine a big painful US gov type organization). I don’t see this getting hobbyists but easily could be wrong.

Cheers and congrats. Really cool stuff! Excited to see where you land.

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