American companies have, and continue to, gather data for free from across the globe and, despite our willingness to subscribe, we non Americans will be restricted from latest tech.
This is a big middle finger to me, and my gut reaction is to take my subscription to Mistral and not believe a dime of statements from Americans-- people, companies and government.
We have a Android Keyboard, a working application. However, we know it needs more work and some more killer features. In that sense it's half-baked.
Lipee Keyboard ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.svayu.lipi ) is a keyboard for Indic scripts and languages that uses gestures to speed up typing by 100%. I am also my own prime user, typing various texts (messages, social media, etc.) in Indic scripts, so I can also vouch of its utility myself.
The first novelty is that it solely focuses on people who do NOT read/write English, but know their own mother tongue and script well. So, a native Kannada user (of Kannada script) or Bhojpuri person (of Devnagari script) are our prime targets.
The second novelty is that almost all Indic scripts add an extra line/symbol next to consonants, called "maatras" to create sound out of a consonant. Each sound has a unique maatra, for any consonant. We use gestures to add such a maatra to all consonants, which speeds up the keyboard typing hugely.
We know we can add more features and killer technologies to make typing in Indic scripts very smooth and fast.
We need more tech talent and support to make this happen, and I hope to on-board a CXO or a senior free-lancer for rapid development.
Do up-vote if you like this project, and spread the word!
I am a possible user for you. I have a startup and I expect very diverse bunch of people to work with me.
As a company we would like to get critical and important information to flow between various stake holders. The stake holders (developers, managers and others) can choose their tools and workflows to deal with the info flow. Whatever suits them...
For example: project plan, timelines, notes/ references, emails/messages, etc. As far as users can access these without fail, and interact to modify them as and when required, I would welcome the freedom for stakeholders to deal with the info the way s/he wants.
I see potential trouble with
1. inter-operability of various tools: notes taken in Notion, vs. Evernote, for example.
2. speed of work: Can web apps help? How do we merge these things for mobiles?
3. Safety of data: we cannot leak information.
Perhaps, to start with, you may want to give a limited freedom for users' workflows. With time more elements can be added.
A tentative, but exciting signal from Parkes, which has been in the thick of aliens search using radio-signal search. In 2016 they started this new effort, which appears to be getting some results.
This may be a false signal still, so understandably all astronomers are very cautious before going public.
We create technologies for Indic languages and scripts. Indic scripts' unique way to create sounds (with 52 consonants and 12 vowels) means we need innovative ways to type fast and accurately. Our innovative mobile keyboard will create vast amounts of Indic-script data. We aim to acquire a large fraction of 400M Indian users who don't use mobiles for lack of understanding English keyboards and other interfaces. This is an entirely new demographic that will use internet services in 2020's.
Location no bar, we are physically located in Goa, India. You may want to join us and continue to work from Goa for any other folks you serve!
We look forward to work with full-stack developers (mainly Android/Java) and AI/ML specialists as CXOs and tech-leads.
Thanks a lot for engaging, we look forward to hearing from you.
Correct! Bird lovers would hate to see those birds die, but the LiDar was the facility which allowed high-res atmospheric studies. FAST, or most other telescopes, don't have this capacity, especially with any comparable size (which allows us to amplify the signal when focused).
A radio astronomer here, and writing opinion for all that's worth.
I visited Arecibo once and stayed for a short project for 3 months. It was awesome, and they have a fabulous small astronomy team doing some really interesting science.
My mentor and long-term collaborator has used this telescope since the 70s, and she will be devastated. This dish has produced so many unexpected discoveries, solid science of highest calibre, and has stayed at the edge of science over 50+ years. It's sad to see such a sudden end.
There are three variants of radio-telescope design:
1. monolith dish (Arecibo or Green Bank)
2. Network of dishes (Very Large Array, or VLA, in New Mexico)
3. Network of individual dipoles (LOFAR in the Netherlands)
One needs to combine all three in some ways to target different classes of astronomical problems. For example, if you want to understand the source structure, separate its left limb from the right, then you need smaller dishes separated by a large distance (like Very Large Array -- VLA). If you are looking at low frequencies of radio light, then you need dipole arrays like LOFAR. On the other hand if you are looking for giant burst of short-term energy, you are collecting light from a distant object. The more you collect, the better it is. So, single dish (or many dishes combined) works very well. Large single dish (Arecibo like) telescopes are also critical to characterize arrays like VLA or LOFAR. So, they are very useful still.
Arecibo's success gave rise to improved design of a single mammoth dish telescopes in China (FAST). So, the design stays relevant and of importance. A new telescope called Square Kilometer Array (of size one square kilometer in effective area) would in principle replace a mammoth dish like Arecibo and tackle very diverse set of problems.
However, Arecibo is like an old Volvo car that kept on going strong. You never want to junk such a old beauty even if you have a swanky Tesla standing outside your door, would you?
American companies have, and continue to, gather data for free from across the globe and, despite our willingness to subscribe, we non Americans will be restricted from latest tech.
This is a big middle finger to me, and my gut reaction is to take my subscription to Mistral and not believe a dime of statements from Americans-- people, companies and government.
Biggest "Meh!" moment of my life so far...