Attendees

  • Kris -

  • Dallas -
    • prototyping (hardware side, special effects)
    • fractals
  • Aaron -
    • application that predicts which news releases I want to read - Machine Learn
    • financial analyst
  • Yuya
    • food delivery service and commerce app
  • Beth
    • Shoppers
  • Lukas
    • system to understand languages
  • Peter —

minutes

  • nerd night
    • deep dive session
    • philosophy logic
    • general intro - first week of school is most exciting when you learn, not necessary practical
    • 20 mins talk, 10 minutes practical/demo
    • learning how to make a dictionary —
    • How to make a privacy compliant
  • snopes browser plugin
    • getting snoped
    • Comments on any article that is listed as false on snopes.com
    • tineye.com
  • Arthur C Clarke - Fractals
    • you can visualize an iterative function
    • sierpinski triangle
    • mandelbrot set
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
      • it’s a literary fractal
    • ecce homo da vinci
    • golden ratio
    • the human body is mostly ratios
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU9gbOgOtQU

  • How can you map arbitrary sets of data?

  • an app that you log every interaction with other people
    • look at your phone after every interaction
    • scrape facebook, take the faces and measure mood
  • press releases
    • earnings, big events, M&A
    • https://tone-analyzer-demo.mybluemix.net/
    • PR newswire
    • Canadian Newswire
    • Can you scrape content without an account?
    • The internets own boy - Aaron Swartz documentary
    • import.io
    • Mechanical Turk
  • Food delivery service:
    • groupon for food delivery
    • Student developer unsatisfied with high school cafeteria
    • order from a delivery radius
    • MVP: https://safe-depths-7772.herokuapp.com/my_restaurants
    • elixir react and redux
    • food trucks come to the school
    • Kris: app where users demand food trucks come to their area
    • entrust/beanstream -

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