Josh Hansen
Josh Hansen
@josh@joshhansen.tech
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  • Concept: Maximum Basic Goodness

    (Updated by Concept: Maximum Basic Goodness 2) A blockchain-based system for voluntary wealth redistribution. Components:

  • Concept: Artificial language generator

    Using Generative Adversarial Networks combined with neural machine translation (NMT) generate believable English->Foreign translation models for de novo non-existent languages. How can Tolkien’s creation of Elvish be reproduced automatically for novel language instances? See also Concept: Phonotactics embedding

  • Concept: Rehearsal app, suggested by Joe Haws

    A cross-platform mobile app that allows adding an audio track and setting rehearsal marks (A, B, C, etc) and then tapping a button to trigger playback from a particular mark. React Native?

  • Concept: “Dinner” app—meet new people by feeding them dinner

    Ad-hoc dinner groups. Ratings let you distinguish leeches.

  • Concept: Language Thing

  • Concept: Improved Reference System 1

    World Wide Web current failings: Solution: <object> is like an <iframe> The hash attribute has no effect? Just there to help developers? But it violates DRY because it can be computed.

  • Concept: Reccomenu

    User rates dishes purchased at restaurants. Make recommendations for other dishes (as function of adventuresomeness) using collaborative filtering with other users’ ratings. Strong emphasis on privacy / minimizing data collection. Simplicity. Users could be rated by how daring they are, clustered by their typical tastes, etc.

  • Concept: Calendar database / exchange