Would anyone be interested in creating a Space Coast Hacker House?
The idea is to assemble a small group of talented folks. Even digital nomads who want to do a short stint would be welcome. And then solicit contracts, or start New Space ventures.
Main benefit is of course proximity to rocket launches ;) For which we could host viewing parties, outdoor BBQs, photo shoots, etc.
Region is known for relatively cheap rents (compared to South Florida). Great weather. Year round golf, tennis, scuba. Not sure about high speed internet availability. And it may be a cultural backwater. But that only leaves more time for building ;)
This has potential. In peer brokering at scale, its the individual state of each peer that has to be mediated. The classic "LimeWire" problem. Just wondering as a peer, how much of my metadata gets leaked? Simply determining when or where I am chatting may be enough to de-anonymize me ;)
For most WebGL a 4x4 matrix multiply is all thats needed. GLSL will implement the basics. But all the 3D libraries include matrix ops: threejs, babylon, etc. Then there are standalone math libs like glMatrix and math.gl from Uber. There is even a WebAssembly accelerated library: glmw.
Just really curious what sort of simulations or applications one would build with an in-browser BLAS implementation ;)
Hire someone specifically for the role. Otherwise it will morph into an all-day time suck.
The good thing is you actually don't need someone with an engineering background for this. And that community building skill they acquire can translate into onboarding new users as well.
In short, its the perfect entry-level position for a candidate with a liberal arts background who wants to get into tech. Best of luck!
Hang out with the folks in biotech if you want to be inspired. You can literally see progress on a daily basis for a host of age related diseases ;)
You can also participate indirectly by tracking the market and making small investments in say: AbbVie, Gilead, Regeneron, Spark Therapeutics, Ginko Bioworks, etc. Or apply your skills to Kaggle style ML competitions, citizen science projects, open access gene banks, etc.
Glad to see Bernhard on HN. Conditioning for the soul requires an occasional tussling with "difficult" literatures: anti-humanism, nihilism, authoritarianism, amorality, egoism and the absurd.
Charles Bukowski was still influential amongst creative writers when I was in college. Houellebecq and Karl Ove Knausgard continue the tradition today. And of course the classics: Huysmans A rebours, Camus Myth of Sisyphus, Dostoyevskys Idiot, Tolstoys Ressurection.
In lieu of re-creating existing social media. Which tends to scale down quite nicely. I'd focus on a single neighborhood "vertical" that boosts partcipation. Say a lending library of physical books. Used baby furniture and children's toys. Or even laptop recycling drives for schools. Distribution is as easy as printing flyers and putting them in mailboxes!
The idea is to assemble a small group of talented folks. Even digital nomads who want to do a short stint would be welcome. And then solicit contracts, or start New Space ventures.
Main benefit is of course proximity to rocket launches ;) For which we could host viewing parties, outdoor BBQs, photo shoots, etc.
Region is known for relatively cheap rents (compared to South Florida). Great weather. Year round golf, tennis, scuba. Not sure about high speed internet availability. And it may be a cultural backwater. But that only leaves more time for building ;)