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Post by aliljet »

desertraven wrote: post #284
aliljet wrote: post #24

I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…

It looks like from the responses here, we could at the very least create a community?

Unquestionably. I started this conversation, I won't let it just hang. There's something seductive about building things that best at lower cost the available best consumption thing. We will find a way!

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Post by dharmaturtle »

shivekkhurana wrote: post #414
dharmaturtle wrote: post #403

I'm building an opensource GitHub for Flashcards. Basically Anki Online (though there's an offline first client). The idea is that it should be easier to collaboratively build flash cards. The project started out with F#/Blazor, but for various reasons I'm (sadly) moving to Typescript/Electron. https://github.com/dharmaturtle/cardoverflow

Offtopic: What made you move from F# to TS ?

I want my offline client to have a plugin system like Anki. Powerful plugins will want to manipulate the DOM directly. They can't do this if I'm using a virtual DOM, which is what Blazor uses. (VDOM updates will overwrite any plugin DOM changes.) There are Fable bindings to React, but of course that also uses a VDOM.

I can't express in words how seriously sad I am to leave F# for the shitshow that is TypeScript. I tried to make ReScript work, but it's tightly coupled to React for baffling reasons.

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Post by f6v »

atdrummond wrote: post #268
f6v wrote: post #120

A long short but I’m a PhD student in medicine with focus on bioinformatics. I have extensive prior experience in software development. Hit me up at i.am.filippov at gmail if you have something deep tech healthcare-related in mind.

Can you expand a bit on what areas you're interested in?

At the moment I’m working in genomics analyzing the next-generation sequencing data. My primary academic interest is in ageing. I’d love to turn that into a business interest as well. But something in the area of genomic disease markers will do.

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Post by remram »

catern wrote: post #440
remram wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So this offers capabilities like `multiprocessing` but possibly across the network, e.g. queues and shared memory? Can it spawn the remote processes too? With SSH, or its own system? You keep pointing me to that document that you feel is compelling, but all it does is explicitly run a Python function in a local thread... I know it's meant as a shortcut in the example but it's hard to infer what the real capabilities…

>Can it spawn the remote processes too? With SSH, or its own system? Yes, with rsyscall, is that not clear? It's pretty explicit in http://catern.com/integration.html#thread >but all it does is explicitly run a Python function in a local thread... That's not all that's happening. I think you might be pattern-matching what's happening in the article to something you've already seen, when in fact it's something novel.

It's clear that it "may operate on a local or remote host" and in this case you run a local thread. Just how much is actually implemented is not clear at all. A lot of frameworks are written to be "extensible" but the extensions are left as an exercise to the reader...

It is nice to have a self-contained example that you can run on your machine, but I think an example that actually shows the capabilities of the framework will serve you better. E.g. show an example of serving network requests by running services on multiple nodes, rather than a toy function with a toy database.

Showing that it's as easy as `run_in_executor()` is nice, but not if it does the exact same thing as `run_in_executor()`.

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Post by jconley »

tomcam wrote: post #292
jconley wrote: post #209

I'm working on a "Unity for everything else". If you build an IoT product, most anything consumer facing, tools for small business, etc, your customers will expect a multi-platform experience. They want an app on iOS and Android as well as a responsive website. This is currently a pain in the ass to build. You either end up with a very carefully made architecture to share code or build everything a bunch of times or…

I think that product already exists: LiveCode https://livecode.com/

Yeah, they're proof that this sort of thing can be valuable.

But they have a very different approach. Proprietary language, components, etc. I wouldn't want to be locked into their ecosystem. That's typical with game engines, but not with web and mobile applications these days. Even Microsoft has gone full open source. I wouldn't use LiveCode as the basis to build a company on.

I'm building the open version. Made for startup teams and indie hackers that want to make world class products on top of the open source tools they would probably use anyway.

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Post by culi »

iamwil wrote: post #450
culi wrote: post #293

I'll start off with my prototype: https://elegant-shaw-2cb49a.netlify.app/votevote Anyone into electoral methods or game theory? If you've ever watched CGP Grey's videos on electoral methods or seen Nicky Case's *To Build a Better Ballot*,[1] it's very much in the spirit of that. It's mostly a toy that will run a single election in a large number of different electoral methods. Currently I've implemented ~26 differen…

What are the 26 different electoral methods? I only see three simulated.

I haven't yet added visualizations for all of them. I realized a lot of optimizations that could be made while working on this so I decided to hold off on that until I rebuild it for the new site (gonna be at votevote.page)

But I do at least show the resulting winners of all 26 methods underneath the input section.

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Post by culi »

iamwil wrote: post #416
culi wrote: post #293

I'll start off with my prototype: https://elegant-shaw-2cb49a.netlify.app/votevote Anyone into electoral methods or game theory? If you've ever watched CGP Grey's videos on electoral methods or seen Nicky Case's *To Build a Better Ballot*,[1] it's very much in the spirit of that. It's mostly a toy that will run a single election in a large number of different electoral methods. Currently I've implemented ~26 differen…

This is pretty interesting. Have you connected with people doing token economics design or DAO governance? That would be pretty applicable. Where did you source all the different electoral methods?

Thanks! The only people I've really connected with are other voting theory nerds. There's a voting theory mailing list where a lot of academics hang out. Some of them are leaders in the field like Forest Simmons and some others I haven't interacted with as much. Maybe once I have more to show I could reach out to wider audiences

The electoral methods are sourced from various places. When I get the new site up and running I want to have a spec source for each of the methods' implementations since some of the names can be confusing. A lot of the methods were found on the electowiki[0] which is run by the same people who do the mailing list. Many others I just found from reading articles, publications, textbooks,[1] and even wikipedia. I've kept a list of ones I wanna implement so I've just been slowly working through them. But there's a strong bias towards simple to implement ones so far. The much-loved (by voting theorists) ones won't be implemented for a while until I figure out how to do things more efficiently

[0] https://electowiki.org/

[1] https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-mathematics-of-ele...

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Post by ksr »

I'm building a percussion PWA at https://github.com/infojunkie/drumkit. The main idea is to create a simple mobile-based app that can be used in live jamming situations (eg by plugging the mobile audio jack into a mixer). It's working well but I need help on the UX / graphics / branding side, so I would appreciate to hear from app designers. Thanks!

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Post by chrisgd »

tacostakohashi wrote: post #345
chrisgd wrote: post #341

There are inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual. We have highly compensated individuals perfecting PowerPoints but too many of the slide creation companies are not relevant for what bankers do. Would love to create something and have ideas on how to make it work but limited tech experience.

> inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual Really? I suspect it's actually pretty efficient getting analysts to do this and paying them for 40 out of the 110 hours they work each week.

Depends upon your interest in burning out your analyst. It all starts with the same data, then downloaded to excel and each sector group classifies and cuts a different way. When you go to update, most of that is lost in excel or to a previous team member, not stored by sector or product group on the cloud. If I categorize Certara as digital health, they should be like that for my team but pharma for the pharma team.
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