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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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https://signalbox.ai/ An out of the box platform to make deep learning easy. It has a drag and drop interface, connectors for common databases and blueprints for common tasks. SignalBox is being used for: Forex trading, Genome visualizations, customer segmentation, large recommendation systems, fraud detection, realtime anomaly detection, bot detection and geo-dataset market prediction. As well as the general platfor…

This looks really cool!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Automorph - AI for software development I'm developing a programming language called Morph inspired by LISP, Smalltalk, Eiffel JavaScript, Python (and others). It's extendible, homoiconic and designed to be transpiled to other languages, so that you can build entire projects with multiple applications on separate platforms from one code base. This is then coupled with a symbolic AI engine to generate, build and deplo…

Do you have any examples of prior art? Sounds really interesting.

The language itself draws some inspiration from LISP, Smalltalk, Eiffel, JavaScript and Python. I guess, SICP was a huge influence on my thinking about this problem. Compilers (in particular cross-compilers) do something similar, but otherwise code generation has come a bit out of fashion (due to the limitations arising if you don't have a Turing complete language as a base). Some people have also looked at NN for code generation, but nothing usable has come from this so far afaik.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Automorph - AI for software development I'm developing a programming language called Morph inspired by LISP, Smalltalk, Eiffel JavaScript, Python (and others). It's extendible, homoiconic and designed to be transpiled to other languages, so that you can build entire projects with multiple applications on separate platforms from one code base. This is then coupled with a symbolic AI engine to generate, build and deplo…

Sounds like a very interesting (and ambitious!) project, looking forward to hearing more about it!

I will post updates here on HN :) Stay tuned!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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https://signalbox.ai/ An out of the box platform to make deep learning easy. It has a drag and drop interface, connectors for common databases and blueprints for common tasks. SignalBox is being used for: Forex trading, Genome visualizations, customer segmentation, large recommendation systems, fraud detection, realtime anomaly detection, bot detection and geo-dataset market prediction. As well as the general platfor…

Very very cool. Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Automorph - AI for software development I'm developing a programming language called Morph inspired by LISP, Smalltalk, Eiffel JavaScript, Python (and others). It's extendible, homoiconic and designed to be transpiled to other languages, so that you can build entire projects with multiple applications on separate platforms from one code base. This is then coupled with a symbolic AI engine to generate, build and deplo…

What is the purpose of the AI? What is it's function ?

The code base (and libraries and packages) serve as a knowledge base of definitions (what things are) and procedures (what things exist). The symbolic AI engine can then take information from this (essentially code snippets) and combine them in novel ways. Example: If you know what a RESTful API is (how it is defined), what MongoDB is and which data models you want to deal with, you can generate the source code for an API handling those data models with MongoDB backend from this. Other example: If you know what requests your API supports, what the semantic data types of the objects and fields are and what a UI-based application is, then you can generate a web, mobile or desktop application from this providing a wrapper around this API.

The goal here is not to replace programmers entirely, but to alleviate the pain of having to code things up manually, especially boilerplate. Because you can deal with issues at a higher level of abstraction now, this can make programming more approachable to (so far) non-programmers.

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https://beakerbrowser.com/ A peer-to-peer Web browser. We let users create and host unlimited sites from their own devices. We think the technology can support thick hostless applications, which eliminates data silos and makes every application forkable from the browser. No blockchains, just an improved variant of BitTorrent called Dat [1]. We've been quiet the last 2 months but our 0.7 release is coming up, and we'r…

This is exciting. Let people host their own Instagram profile on their phone.

That'd be really interesting, splitting social media control out of the existing silos. The problem with that seems to be that when you try to read someone's profile and they're not online, it wouldn't work - what would happen in that case?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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SnapCycle is a modular personal transport vehicle. Can be reconfigured into an ebike, self balancing board, skateboard, and multiple variations of each. All existing electric personal transporters utilize the same tech and components but have only one possible configuration. Our modular system allows one to ride a bike to work and a skateboard home.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exciting. Let people host their own Instagram profile on their phone.

That'd be really interesting, splitting social media control out of the existing silos. The problem with that seems to be that when you try to read someone's profile and they're not online, it wouldn't work - what would happen in that case?

Public peer services can handle the availability problem
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