I am working on Blubyn - an AI powered travel agent helping users book flights and hotels quickly by personalizing results. Here is the link: http://onelink.to/blubyn (app only - available on both iOS and Android)
Being an avid traveler, it has always bothered me that travel experience has remained almost the same over the years. We scout 50 websites to figure out where to go and what to do, where results/posts are something written with a view of catering to everyone(and hence very little for my interests), then to book I have to look at 100 different variables (and repeat the process almost everytime), and not helped by 8-10 websites which all look and function the same way - showing the most results, and not being upfront about anything. It still takes me half an hour to book a flight or hotel - when I do the same set of checks and actions everytime.
Once the booking is done, now again begins the anxiety of scouting trip advisor and lonely planet and forums to get more knowledge about a place. Altogether its a very inefficient experience, to say the least. Comparing that to buying a product on Amazon, one click booking, personalization, one stop shop, a seamless experience, and its fares really bad.
We want to bring that Amazon experience to travel. We have just started, long way to go. Hoping to crack it.
A lot of solutions focused on building itineraries, and to me that is where they missed the mark. Planning and itinerary building is not a hassle, its part of the experience. People like an itinerary made for them, but they dont follow it, cos it feels like work routine. The hassle part is the struggle in finding the relevant information. All the blogs try to cater to everyone and hence arent that relevant for one person (results and articles arent personalized). Then the information is way too scattered so it takes time finding it. Third, most blogs and articles are written from conversion viewpoint so that decreases the reliability. We can solve all three.
Interesting. Which GDS are you integrating with in the background or are you using something like Skyscanner? How do you guarantee you are giving users the best price?
1. ML based recommendation engine to suggest flights, hotels, activities/experiences, and even destinations based on profile (social data, interaction data, and booking data) and clusters based on certain components. (Currently works well for flights at 85% accuracy - top five results, for hotels, we are at 52% in top 10 results)
2/ Voice + NLP engine to handle more intuitive queries. One aspect of travel inspiration is that when people google, they dont ask the question they have. Like for a question like 'Where can I go for a beach trip next weekend' becomes a search query of 'Top beaches in US' or 'Top 10 exotic beaches'.
3/ 80% of the trip planning effort is spent on just finding the relevant info cos it is way too scattered. There is a way it can be made more concentrated, when we scrape more data from existing blogs, and create a graph network of information to serve a more relevant and contextual answer to the queries. Initial thoughts only on this, since we are still solving this. (Example would be, let's say you are planning a trip to Thailand, the product should be able to give contextual info keeping your preferences in mind. If you are an adventure lover, focus would only be on those activities, if you like a secluded beach to relax, you will be given those answers.)
3rd is the most complex and requires a lot more effort. This is not the same as itinerary building (cos that is the part of experience). We just want to take away the frustrating bits away from the planning part.
Apart from these, the usual features, like fare prediction, flight delay prediction, deals info, are also on the roadmap.
I’m working on a skin for developer laptops so that you can apply those sweet conference and startup stickers. No more risking your resale value, or even physically risking damage to your expensive MacBook.
I want the skins to be identical to the original laptop material so that they are practically invisible. So for the MacBooks, a silver aluminium sticker (or space grey etc.)
I’ve done a proof of concept and it worked brilliantly (in the process of writing this up) and its allowed me to display my old ‘laptop’ as a keepsake, whilst being able to sell the laptop on in almost perfect condition.
I’m thinking of going down the crowdfunding route, as a way of proving there is a market, as well as helping to fund someone of the equipment needed.
Edit: Added they’d be a near identical match to the original laptop, rather than just a plain ‘sticker’
If the skin is that similar to the original silver color and texture of original Macbooks you might also see a market for giving non-Macbook laptops that Macbook color look.
I personally really liked how the PoC went – I plan on doing a full write up in the next couple of days, which will outline what I did, start to finish.
Here is an example of the sticker/skin and the finish. Excuse the slightly 'off' cut on the corner – I'm looking to produce a highly accurate template for each of the various models. https://imgur.com/FfQ3XQs
If I can give you a recommendation, set up a waitlist before you publish your blog post.
We just went through this process with Solo (mentioned in another comment): blogging, waitlist, kickstarter. HN has been great, we hit the front page four times. KS however is penalized on HN, so building a waitlist will be increadibly useful.
I don't really understand, how is this different than any of the other laptop skins on the market? Couldn't I just get a blank one from alibaba or whatever and use that?
I’m using an old paper tape punch machine to print out (5% of) the human genome. The punches are from the early 80s, and it’s really neat to be able to physically see each bit of data. The plan is to fill up a room with the punched tape, sort of mirroring a strand of dna and giving you a sense of just how large the genome actually is.
Unfortunately I’m having a hell of a time finding space to print in. May just end up finding some commercial warehouse space on Craigslist
It’s cool because it’s the game I always wanted to make since I was a teenager. What’s even cooler is that two heroes of my youth are doing it together with me: Henk Nieborg (Pixel Artist) and Chris Hülsbeck (Music).
How did you get together to work with those people? Do you have a nice track record and reached out, hired them or how does it happen? Mostly interested because you referred to them as your 'heroes' so the path towards them might be interesting.
I’m tinkering with combining liquid cooling with waste heat electricity generation as a way to cut down on datacenter energy use. I think it’s cool because datacenters consume 1-2% of all electricity generated worldwide, and roughly half of that goes to air conditioning. If it’s viable, it might make a measurable dent in CO2 emissions.
In another life I worked in a mostly linux environment, and developed on linux, where I used xmonad as a window manager. Switching to windows for a new job several years ago made that super painful. I use workspacer every day at work, and sometimes at home, and it mostly works! It crashes sometimes, and super DOES NOT LIKE IT if you reattach monitors (think laptop), but a restart of the application usually solves it.
The cool part: the configuration file is actually just C#, so you can configure it with a similar level of power that you would configure xmonad (or dwm) with (like implementing custom layouts, etc). I have not solidified the configuration API yet though, and have some plans to switch some major things up, so the road is a bit rocky for the time being.
my plan is to add some GIFs of the window manager actually managing windows, but I haven't had any spare time in the last few weeks. maybe this weekend though!
I’m working on a satirical newsletter that makes fun of the tech industry: https://techloaf.io
I’d like to think it’s cool because a) it articulates and ridicules a lot of nutty things that most of us in tech recognize, but refuse to talk about and b) it’s fun and makes people laugh each week.
Life’s too serious, so it’s fun to make something that lightens the load.
I’m making a permissively licensed json/whatever encoding you’d like English dictionary by parsing Wiktionary. There’s a beta demo type thing at https://www.mostaccioli.club if you’re interested.
I'm working on getting better at cooking. My partner loves to cook with me, but I kind of suck at it. It's cool because we can spend some quality time together making a meal.
This is great! One hint I find useful is paying attention to eating. Try to decompose the taste of a dish. Then try to identify what makes those tastes.
That resistor usually burns out because the bearing of the fan doesn't work properly anymore, causing the fan to draw too much current. So if you don't replace the fan, that resistor will burn out again soon.
A toy 24-bit virtual machine and assembler. It has 16MB of addressable memory split into 256 64KB banks. 8 specialized and 8 general purpose 16 bit registers. An address stack and a register state stack and memory mapped I/O.
Most of the opcodes have been written, apart from interrupts. It has built in function calls, near and far jumps, a bunch of different branching operations and basic looping based on flag States. Comparisons, unsigned and signed addition, multiplication, subtraction and division. Most opcodes support direct, indirect and relative addressing.
I tried to keep the assembly language fairly simple and straightforward. So far I have a two pass assembler that supports labels, named variables, subroutines, 8 and 16 bit numbers in decimal or hexadecimal format, 24 bit addresses in hexidecimal, character literals and zero terminated strings.
At this point the next steps are to finish doing interrupts and work on input and ouput. Right now, it will read an assembled binary and spit out a new binary with any modified memory addresses and a register dump so there's still a bit of work yet to making something interactive.
I'm thinking of using bearlibterminal(though I wouldn't mind keeping it dependency free...i'm just not sure if I can) and making it pseudo text/graphical terminal based I was thinking of maybe having different modes that could be switched so data stored in vram memory would be treated and displayed differently depending. I'd also like to keep the display and input fairly separate so it would be possible to write a different display frontend if people wanted. My hope is to eventually have keyboard, mouse and maybe other inputs, graphics and basic audio all as separate modules.
I'd like to eventually release it all open source with full documentation. I dunno I was inspired after trying to learn assembly and finding it was either fairly complex and more for compilers in the case of modern processors or you had to deal with weird hardware limitations and strangeness with old processors. So I tried my hand at making something similar to an older processor without having to deal with the frustrations of old hardware. My goal was to make it as fun to program in as possible while still giving the feeling of working directly with memory and registers.
Personally, i've learned tons from working on this and I figure if I was looking something like this, there's probably others that could benefit.
I'm working on a personal organization app - basically integrating a to do list, habit tracker, and notes app into one. I think it's cool because it's useful to me and a "scratch your own itch" app.
It also supports habits and notes, but in mine the tasks and habits are combined. I'd like to go further like you have in combining the notes and task interfaces (right now it's basically two separate apps that happen to be in the same codebase + database).
I like it. I use both approaches, so there's individual task/habit/notes modules like you have that let you dive deeper and edit and tweak things, and then the general dashboard which is more of an overview that combines them into one and lets you get common tasks done quickly. The dashboard is date based (defaulting to today) while the modules aren't.
I'm sure your app is quite more user friendly and inviting ;) but I thought I would share this one. It's kind of cool to mess around with if you're a command line nut.
I'm working on https://www.datagekko.com. It's a passion project of mine that came from a scratch your own itch situation. Working on it for the past 6 years or so a couple hours every day on average (spent a ton of time). As it matured I decided to push it from a hobby project to a product. Super close to launching it, but constantly keep delaying it as I always have something to improve.
Learned a ton on it and literally helped me shape my career in the past 5 years.
A short description would be a large scale metrics/telemetry system. But I'm aiming to make it available for small-scale use as well so that small guys (like me) can leverage those benefits.
I'm working on a tourism portal about Ravello, a jewel town of the Amalfi Coast: https://www.ravello.com
Right now I'm re-writing it using Elixir & Phoenix. It's currently running on Wordpress after first being a static site served from Amazon's Cloudfront & S3.
This way I'm also transitioning away from PHP & Laravel, my previous stack, to Elixir & Phoenix and learning its ropes along the way. I'm super excited about this new stack.
It's cool because I get to work and learn more about places I like using awesome tools.
I'm working on a service that texts you when one of your preloaded accounts sees a change in balance - for example, public transit or toll roads. I've got three services supported so far: https://balancebeamapp.com/
I think it's cool because I login to these accounts very infrequently and months later I have no idea what balance I'm carrying, whether I'll be able to board the bus in a city I'm visiting, etc. Also, the websites are usually not great to use especially on mobile.
It is an enterprise search engine which departs from traditional keyword-based search in order to provide an easier way to run complex, semantic queries on huge collections of text documents.
Why it's cool: image a pharmaceutical research task, where you need to find all documents mentioning drugs that interact with a specific class of diseases. In a normal setting, you would need to first research which drugs satisfy your condition and then either build a boolean OR query or probably query them one by one. Doqume saves you this hassle, because it allows to express conditions like "drugs that interact with infectious disease" with a simple user interface. As a result, you can get both the items that match your conditions (i.e., in the example, all the drugs that we know interact with the class of diseases that you specified) and the documents that match the query (e.g., recent research articles mentioning those items). The approach is not specific to pharma and you can easily build queries that span across several domains (e.g., "cities with more than 1M inhabitants", "USA companies with more than X employees", "singers who are born in Chicago", etc...).
If you want to give it a try you can see a demo with this query building capability at http://doqume.com/search.html
Well, you can obtain these results with Google, but not really in most scenarios. For example, if you search "cities in Palestine with more than 1000 inhabitants" you will get lists of cities in Palestine and things like that, but not that New York Times article talking about Hebron (and not even a complete list of cities that match your criteria). This happens with lots of queries, where in the best case scenario Google will just return you a list of items (and not actual content talking about those items) and in the worst case scenario you will just get random results because it failed to parse the query.
It's just one of the examples that came to my mind and that I thought was good. From what I know people working in pharma routinely have to search thousands of documents (e.g., research articles) looking for information.
Solo, an open source security key. Think of the open source counterpart of a Yubikey or Google Titan. Just a few hours ago we've been featured by Kickstarter: https://solokeys.com/kickstarter
What makes Solo special is that it's the first security key:
I love this! Thank-you for your venture. Is there any way I can subscribe to updates? Do you know what your final pricepoint will be? (Often changes from the Kickstarter promises)
I’m working on a new training to help people have better social interactions, aka charisma.
Whether they use it to get ahead at work, enhance their relationship with a partner, relate to their kids, gain new friendships, sell something important, or just be able to be in their own company, that’s something that enhances everything they do.
I think it’s cool because it’s my small way of connecting a world that has been slowly drifting apart and is in need of coming together to solve huge divides and problems that are to come.
I am working on a podcast called Would You Like to Restart[1], it's essentially a single player DnD (Player and GM).
It's cool because unlike all my other failed projects it's for fun rather than an attempt at profit. Even if nobody listens we're doing it because it's a laugh - and people seem to be listening to it, so bonus!
I'm creating an interactive presentation on Git for my company who has been using SVN since the dawn of time. Many might consider this a boring project but it also happens to be a wide sought out skill. Very few really dive in to becoming power users of Git which is why I think it's a cool project for me. Teaching any topic to someone else almost always resolves in a considerable skill enhancement for the teacher.
Would you mind sharing it publically? I've only ever used for, but wouldn't consider myself a power user. I don't know how to rebase, for example. I'm sure there's value showing it online!
I am working on an "All-in-one Client Management" Software that allows our company to track everything about our clients in one place which includes: Onboarding, Registration, Subscriptions/Billing, Emails/Communications, Helpdesk, Projects etc. This will solve an internal problem we have at our SAAS company. Not sure about the "cool" factor but it surely will make our lives easier.
I'm working on an experimental tool to simplify React Redux app development. Inspired by the simplicity of Turbolinks, and powered by Rails. You can develop React and Redux SPAs without any APIs.
A KISS replacement for react + redux. It comes in two flavors:
- callbag-html + callbag-store
or
- callbag-element + declaredom + callbag-store if you're planning on using web components
Benefits:
- It uses morphdom for fast diffing, which is as fast as virtual-dom
- It's lack of parochiality -it just uses plain
HTMLElements. It makes using 3rd party libs seamless because you don't have to wrap them. It also means that you can batch things into animation frames to avoid unnecessary layout thrashing
- Callbag is used because it's a stupidly simple streaming library, easy to understand. Things like cold/hot observables, or what gets updated in a tick, can make streaming libs pretty complicated. Callbag fights that with it's extreme simplicity.
In general the entire toolset is easy to understand in terms of how it works, and that's important
We just started sales for our product. Distributed about 30 flyers to restaurants and hair salons yesterday. Because it was the first time for us, it was quite a learning experience. Sales requires a much thicker skin and open ears. Also, because I am an American living in China, I had to learn some new technical words.
Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages. Its a captive portal plus a local web server. http://www.100-xyz.com
Looking for ideas on how to get customers/users. Suggestions, comments appreciated.
> Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages
Aka the thing nobody ever asked for and why I don't even bother with public Wi-Fi anymore.
Your users are just looking for Wi-Fi and are already in your venue; your best interest is to not piss them off by wasting their time and instead offer a good, seamless Wi-Fi experience so they can move on and enjoy whatever they planned to do at your venue.
Our product is designed for people who ARE LOOKING for local info. For those who arent, the business can set it up so that it works seamlessly - the way you stated it.
But in some instances, such as restaurant ordering system - it may be more convenient to order from your smartphone directly. In that case its useful.
Another use case that we are already having is - event translation. The attendees WANT the live streaming - so they join the wifi, go to the local webserver and get the streaming. If the local server is not there, the sound quality is sometimes poor because the same signal is coming in parallel to all the users from a remote server.
In short, its designed for people who ARE LOOKING for local information.
We are creating a platform called 100. So, if the user sees a Wifi with 100-something, they know its our platform and can access it by entering 100.here in the url. So Johns bar would call it 100-JohnsBar, a salon would call it 100-TopSalon...
Okay, I suppose that makes more sense. But maybe the-100-network.com or network-100 or even hundrednetwork.com would be more clear. I think the current one looks like a spam domain that an ad network would have for some ad serving. Then again I am not the target audience so it might be irrelevant.
Thanks for the response. We are located in China - so our target are Chinese as well as the Western audience. Any english word in the url will cause the Chinese audience to just zone out. Chinese are used to numbers such as 360.com 136.com and so on.
Working on a project that uses Chrome Puppeteer - a Node.js API that uses Chrome DevTools Protocol to control a (possibly headless) Chrome. Its very cool because now the phenomenal power of DevTools is accessible programmatically and can be run on CI systems and stuff!
I’m working on fabricating interactive art pieces/clocks. I’ve been making these ask gifts for a few years. A big part of the gift is my time and effort. I think that is invaluable.
People always ask if I sell them. So I’ve come up with a wordclock design I really like and am working on some basement manufacturing.
For my day job I’m in charge of making physical products. So this is a hobby extension of that skill set.
Right now I’m hoping to ramp up production enough to sell a few of these for the holiday season. Hopefully this weekend lead time will change from 3-5 weeks to 1 week. Moderator Dan suggested I post a Show HN about this. I plan to once I get through this production hurdle.
I'm working on Zenkit. It's a collaborative project and task management software which is meanwhile a great alternative to Trello, Wunderlist and other tools on the market.
The flexibility it gives us in the office (yes we use it ourselves in every department) is awesome and we have so many ideas on how to improve it that we sometimes not know what to do first. The potential is high and I'm curious about where we are going with that.
A simple reporting tool for tracking and reporting project/task activity.
It's cool because work requires me to submit an activity report each week and I wasn't about their terribly inefficient form, so I built a web-service to track my activities.
It's nothing special per-se, but it's significantly less complicated than other free options I've found for this sort of reporting and I like things that don't require me to learn how to use them.
I’m working on https://checklyhq.com, an API monitoring and site transaction monitoring SaaS. The coolest thing about it is discovering the many subtleties in the product offerings in the pretty huge and abundant monitoring market and how customers value them.
The technical stuff is cool too, and actually much trickier than many would expect, but I find customer development and support much more rewarding as I’m signing up the first customers.
Not work related, but I am working on my body. Trying to run faster marathon at the same time building muscles to look good. It's hard after 40, but I was a 123 lb weakling at 24, now a 145 lb with good muscle tone.
I am working on Execution.com - We are showing businesses what meetings cost in terms of time/money at their organization, as well as a lot of analytics to help them improve meeting culture. And, we are trying to see what the best companies are doing so that we can give companies the tools to improve the effectiveness of meetings.
I'm working on a self-hosted, automated testing service for universities. I'm designing it to be distributed and fault-tolerant, which I've never done before! Structuring the application around producers, consumers & queues has decoupled it immensely, and (so far) has made the codebase extremely easy to grok. I've just go to figure out docker-compose, so I can throw up a new instance in a few seconds ;)
Does anyone have any recommendations for a newbie to the distributed architecture space?
In my freetime I have been working on learning React, and more generally modern javascript. After dragging my feet for so long because of bias, I took the plunge a few weeks ago and I love it! It's very cool, in my opinion, because the web ecosystem really has grown a lot as an app platform, and honestly I like it. The "old" web and an app web can exist side by side, I see now.
At work, still just connecting API to API, test to test, pipe to pipe. I feel like a plumber, but I guess that's "backend".
KloudTrader - A commission-free (flat-rate) algorithmic trading platform. Think of it as the Netlify or Heroku for computational finance. We provide a datafeed and a commission-free brokerage, not to mention server hosting. Basically everything you need to get started. Push to deploy.
Long-time HFT and stat-arb trader here. Not really your target market here, but I have a few suggestions that you may or may not find useful.
- Don't write the core platform in python. The lack of support for concurrency is going to bite you in the ass down the line when you're trying to trade at scale or deliver high performance. I'd stick to C++, Java, Rust or Golang.
- Don't send market data in HTTP/JSON. It's way too bulky and slow. Of course, you can still expose JSON to the end-client if that's what they want. But make sure to send internal messages in a fast, low-overhead, low-bandwidth. Like ZeroMQ + fixed binary encoding.
- Have very clear policies about when/where/why you throttle market data. If you This is the biggest reason why most "algo-platforms-in-a-box" suck. (Using fast market data encoding will help here.)
- Make sure that paper trading isn't running against throttled or consolidated market data. This is going to distort the results by assuming a trader can hit a price that may already be stale.
- Since it's comm-free, you (or your broker) is monetizing with payment-for-order-flow. At the very least be transparent about your policies here. I'd offer the ability to upgrade to smart or exchange specific routing for a commission.
- Since you're doing payment-for-order-flow, keep meticulous records of your trades with microsecond time precision. You can use that dataset to shop around for better deals on the order flow. If you wind up growing the business where you're doing a significant amount of volume, a major wholesaler like Citadel or Virtu can use that dataset to give you a very competitive offer for your flow.
- Be very careful with the market data licenses and make sure you're totally in legal compliance. Exchanges do not mess around and frequently audit their vendors to make sure they're in compliance.
You raise some very good points. Ideally we would be streaming raw FIX data. The current setup evolved from our difficulty in trying to deploy Quantopian's Zipline. Order routing is currently cleared through Apex via a partnership with Tradier. I agree that our website needs to be updated to be more clear about that and it's implications. We do plan for upgraded routing in future. If you don't mind, I would love to discuss more about this, my email is <last three letters of username>@kloudtrader.com
Can you explain to me what the GIL is and how it works...
> guy who built a HFT fund using python.
I mean, maybe you and I have definitions of HFT. But I'd say the base minimum to compete in HFT space is tick-to-trade latency from off-the-wire data packet to on-the-wire order packet of 50 microseconds or less.
That's simply not possible in any python stack. Period.
I believe you're maybe doing something that turns over positions on an intraday basis. But that's not HFT. HFT's typical characteristics are colocation+DMA, very low latencies, full-scale analysis of the entire order book, volumes of more than 1% of the ADV, and Sharpe ratios above 10.
(And no, nothing in crypto space is anything close to HFT, because the infrastructure simply doesn't exist.)
HFT is just something where latency is the primary factor. Your perspective is a somewhat narrow one driven perhaps by limited experience or reading. The things you listed are true but just part of the arms race at various venues. Likewise, your reply to GP lacks perspective. Latency is likely almost totally irrelevant to his business model. His target audience doesn’t require sub-python latencies.
The tech is cool and most of the early customers we have are realizing how important it is to be able to describe and pitch their company in a succinct and captivating manner.
I'm working on https://appreviewbot.com, a tool I made for myself to post iOS app store reviews to Slack. I'm still trying to figure out what makes it cool though, having a hard time getting feedback from users!
It's stimulating to write diff algorithms when textual diff is coupled with images, markdown, html, and code syntax rendering. Also, it's super useful for a lot of people in Data Science community.
Im half way in a algorithm that redraws pixel art image that have been corrupted by scaling or compression. 1 step it analise the image to define the "pixel size". Then it generates a pallet with all the colors needed to redraw that image. The it redraws it.
I am working on Primer. Basically a bot that makes it much easier to learn "difficult things" on your own. Here is a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/E5Kw54P
The screenshot has changed a lot by now though.
I have been working on this, alone, for last almost two year. I have iterated more than 15 times. One time, I was trying to do non-linear twine[0] based interface. Was pretty complicated. Right now, this is the version I am most satisfied and excited for. Also, it took some while to create a CMS from scratch for this one.
Here is why it is cool.
0. Primer teaches you in a conversational way. I understand video based MOOCs are new norms, but conversational way makes user better focused towards learning. It also makes it easier to revise, recall and resume from where you last left.
1. Primer will provide you notes in form of Tufte-Latex Books[1]. The way it works is that there is already a template for each course and when the user completes the course, his/her response accounts generates tex Code along with the previous templates and results in personalized books. The books authors name is the username.
2. Primer enforces spaced repetition. Not only it teaches you something, it also reminds you to revise after certain intervals. Although Anki export is a desirable feature, I did not have the energy to look into it now, but it is definitely in the roadmap. Primer takes responsibility of your learning.
3. Primer tracks time spent on your courses. Good tool for homeschoolers.
4. Primer courses are versioned. Primer courses improve based on feedback. If you get stuck at a course, it is improved so that, next time it feels easier to understand. And often times, we will screw up, so it is there for that too. But importantly, courses should have pretty iteration times. This is a major advantage of text based courses.
5. Primer based courses take a fraction of time to complete than Video-based courses.
6. Last, my favorite. It makes difficult things easier to learn. Although, achieving this feature to a practical extent will take another year or so, but still feels good to have the potential. Suppose, you want to learn how to build a spaceship. There is a ton of things you need to learn before you can even begin to learn about spaceships and rockets. Primer ensures that you have understood the prerequisites before you start doing something. All these courses are present on Primer itself.
I am not good with deadlines. But I can assure that I am pretty close to completion.
These are the initial courses to be offered by Mid 2019.
Tentative Tracks: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Fantastic ML Papers and how to implement them, Teach yourself Computer Science, Fantastic CS Papers and how to understand them, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
Thanks Man.
Well, it detects wrong / right answer when you use predefined responses but when you use text reply then it just states what is correct, so that you can figure out where you went wrong.
Being an avid traveler, it has always bothered me that travel experience has remained almost the same over the years. We scout 50 websites to figure out where to go and what to do, where results/posts are something written with a view of catering to everyone(and hence very little for my interests), then to book I have to look at 100 different variables (and repeat the process almost everytime), and not helped by 8-10 websites which all look and function the same way - showing the most results, and not being upfront about anything. It still takes me half an hour to book a flight or hotel - when I do the same set of checks and actions everytime.
Once the booking is done, now again begins the anxiety of scouting trip advisor and lonely planet and forums to get more knowledge about a place. Altogether its a very inefficient experience, to say the least. Comparing that to buying a product on Amazon, one click booking, personalization, one stop shop, a seamless experience, and its fares really bad.
We want to bring that Amazon experience to travel. We have just started, long way to go. Hoping to crack it.