Ask HN: Collaborate on research as a side project?
Hi HN,
I'd like to work on some (mostly machine learning / statistics / AI) research projects in my spare time and would be interested in e-meeting others with similar ambitions / interests. I've written up my thoughts here: http://www.openias.org/welcome-to-the-institute ↗.
Anybody else out there who'd like to have their name on a couple of papers, and perhaps get some open source written / released in the process? :P
Cheers,
Björn
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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 think you're better off starting it, figuring what it's about, and then, inviting people to join. As is stands, it sounds rather vague.
PS: I'd love to help but I don't think I'm qualified enough in that field! Good luck!
Yes - I am building a deep learning platform right now, and it's 95% complete (just some UI to finish) I am starting to look for real use cases to run on the demo servers.
My email is in my profile if you'd like to work together