There are API aggregation sites like Mashape that are already working toward this goal. My startup thing is about using learned models for text processing [1]. Quick tests are also available here [2].
If we are to cite articles here, let me get one from Quim Monzó (a reputed catalan journalist) [1]. I'm pasting a Google translation directly here:
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Noone can stop it
The latest rumors report that, after the first days of confusion in which many people (myself for example) had just did not understand the superblock Poblenou is so successful that the council considers mounted another even fatter. Instead of the nine islands now recovered and released to the public, the new superblock, which would be the Eixample district, in aggregate compensar- eighties. Sepúlveda go to Paris and Rocafort Aribau, including the four islands of the Clinic. The proliferation of space-and the undeniable fact that trim the circulation paths as important as Roma Avenue, the street Aragon and Great fea- would be a traffic calming infinitely superior to that now allows Poblenou.
In addition, it could hold more activities, not just those that are in the Poblenou. Convert planters of trees of the streets in small urban gardens so residents are planted to tomatoes from parsley. Every afternoon at five, would mime workshops all corners of the street Villarroel. At the intersection of Valencia Viladomat, barbecues because residents can cook sausages grilled tofu and mushrooms in which they exist. Years rain soon, like this, if the mushrooms are imported (Soria, Romania ...) it is verified Mushroom Fair Trade. Without this accreditation we are not allowed to use the picnic tables that are installed because citizens can enjoy these products along with their children. Saying that both barbecues and picnic tables would be designed for students and students of architecture, in a gesture of solidarity and protest sustainable. Once a week, the space freed Gran Via Casanova push forward the Factory of Ideas: a neighbor or neighbor tells a thought that has had this thought and then under discussion between all. It also may explain dreams, which are analyzed equally between everyone.
I can not conclude without noting that bus routes to be amended to avoid going through this supersuperilla would not be fixed. Each driver is free to choose what you want, you also can change from one day to another. This will not only encourage the creativity of colleagues and drivers but the genius of passengers and passenger. That could be targeted opening in September 2018, coinciding with the Feast of Mercy. And I forgot: stretched between the buildings around this area and recovered released settled zip, overflying stops caramelized apples that would allow it (the zip, no stops) than boys and children and adults, and adults could interact with each other and vice versa.
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Quim Monzó is also a quite humorous writer, and this writing is full of his humour. He's making fun of the superblock, an 80 blocks superblock and random bus routes? You can't be fully sure whether he is for or against it, but one tends to make fun of things he disagrees with.
Very true, but in the real world where what's urgent goes before what's important, you are often forced to reschedule stuff, and the pen&paper approach clearly is in disadvantage here.
My solution is a dynamic todo called myTinyTodo [1], a very simple app where I can sort stuff by project, deadline, importance, etc.
I reschedule stuff all the time, it's not a huge deal, you just copy a few items from one list into another, it takes a few seconds usually. And actually, I find I like it this way because if I hit a point where I realize I'm rescheduling too much stuff too often it tells me that I need to either follow through more often or not be so optimistic in scheduling things so much.
Committing to do a thing in a given time period should be kind of a big deal. If you don't need to commit to a thing in a specific time, then just leave it in a more general master list (e.g. monthly, or generic) and commit to it when you have the time.
Ask HN: What value can makers add to ham? I feel I belong to this "new makers" wave and I'm thinking about using Artificial Intelligence to model noise (and cancel it) so as to use cheap SDR dongles more effectively.
ham radio and makers share a common problem where its too big of a hobby to come up with a simple definition. Almost by definition if you think you know the limit of the hobby, its only because you haven't done enough research, in both fields.
Something I've noticed about maker movement is to maintain the cultural pool cohesion or whatever they don't socialize with existing clubs, teams, groups in other hobbies, leading to, at best, reinventing the wheel, at worst, safety situations. Starting with zero person-years in a makerspace is probably unwise if the local ham radio club meets across the street on a different day and has person-millennias of combined RF experience. Not to mention online groups, podcasts like the soldersmoke guys...
Its hard to come up with something strictly ham radio that isn't more widely applicable to electronics in general. But possible...
Generally the hams are extremely talented at metalworking and trad carpentry for cabinets and RF component structures. I'm sure that could be 3-d printed and laser cut plywood and who knows what else. Imagine printing out a new custom plastic case for a field radio. Could you print out a power distribution panel, its just an array of rectangular holes, perhaps designed specifically for powerpoles to snap into. Could you print out low/medium power coil winding forms? For high power use you could remove the PLA if the copper wire is thick enough to self support. I've been fooling around with printed temporary antenna components. Fooling around with, as in "breaking" but eventually I'll print something that works. I (very briefly) talked to a guy who sewed a vest thing for his goat and his goat carries radio gear to the top of a mountain where he operates just for fun. I'm sure thinking outside the box someone could laser cut a wood backpack antenna support for backpack mobile people. Microwave waveguide work has been traditional metalworking and brazing, but maybe 3-d printing fixtures and things? There's some waveguide stuff on thingiverse but I'd be happy starting out with just WR-42 standard flange dust caps to snap on the unused end. (WR-42 size waveguide is for 24 GHz ham band, others are also useful). Alignment jigs and things? 3d Printed mounting brackets to attach standard microwave horn antennas to tripods? Basically anywhere you'd see a ham using 2x4 wood cutoffs and duct tape, a printer and lasercutter could do better.
Most of the above is "in my infinite spare time I plan to..." who knows how many ideas you'd get from a large club.
The ham radio construction / homebrew group is "probably" larger than the group of makers specifically into electronics. The hobby is big enough that it should be easy to find an existing spot to extend.
I would say that hill climbing with random restarts works better because you must first define a cost function in a precise (and concise) symbolic mathematical way. Very much similar to simulated annealing, stochastic gradient descent and the like. However, GA's can be applied regardless of the piece of knowledge that is required to build this cost function. GA is a universal optimisation technique: as long as you can encode features in a gene form (this is very convenient for binary attributes) and rate the fitting of that gene you are ready to search the optimum.
Key to AI is clear. But, which is the challenge? Are we talking about predicting actually? Or is it rather about building a huge case-based reasoning system that can "replicate" known patterns?
Most recent research is focused on neural nets and deep-learning to that end, this answers the question wrt prediction, but this seems to be a partial solution.
[1] https://market.mashape.com/atrilla/nlptools [2] http://nlptools.atrilla.net/web/api.php