This is great. I have been tinkering with the idea of building something that helps people learn something in the most efficient way possible. I have been pretty frustrated with most learning materials for almost anything, especially when you have limited time and a lot of interests. Keep up what you are doing and hopefully I will be able to share something after a couple of months.
I have been thinking kind of along the same lines. I work full time but I can carve out 5-8 hours a week to work on some research project and add value as a technologist. I would love to contribute especially to projects and folks working in the medical field trying to fight diseases, finding cure and advance genetic engineering to name a few.
I think a lot of people would love to contribute their free time and together that would mean thousands of hours of help into these projects which could mean that the goals could be achieved sooner. The problem is I don't know where to start and which projects would benefit from my 5-8 hours a week. This seems like the same problem I have with contributing towards open source projects.
I would love to talk more and see if there is a viable solution out there.
I would love to help. What is the roadmap and what do you all need help on? I might need a little help understanding tensorflow because I have never really used it.
Really cool and interesting. Looks like deep learning and AI is going to make some significant strides in the tech industry. I read somewhere that there is still a lack of professionals to expedite the adoption in the wild. What additional skills are required by your regular full stack software engineer to be useful for a deep learning company? I know there are courses out there but I am not sure if they are too academic. Are there specific technologies that one should be playing with?
I have the idea, we spent a lot of time struggling to progress on a particular topic and most of the time it just slips away. Can you provide a concrete example of what you would want to learn, what is your current skill level and what this service should do to provide value to you?
I am working on #2. There has to be some sort of incentive for the mentors for this to be sustainable. As a mentee what can you provide to the mentor? What do you think will make this relationship be sustainable?
I was(am?) in the same boat as you. I don't like using other platforms because they don't do exactly what I want. I go through the same decision points while trying to maintain a todo list. I guess that is the drawback of being a developer, you know you can do better(for your usecase) job of developing a great application and eventually, writing a blog or maintaining a todo list becomes an excercise in yak shaving (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2est2c_yak-shaving_fun ).
I am trying to get over this habit. Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.
I don't have the expertise to help you with this specific situation, however I would love to know the approach that you took and the outcome of this endeavor. Please share it when you are ready.