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Show HN: I made a 2D shoot 'em up game with Go, using Entity Component System
Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure
This proof-of-concept project combines:
- Flutter, from Google;
- ClojureDart, port of Clojure to Dart from Tensegritics; and
- Matrix, a reactive framework from moi.<p>So, yes, we can now program Flutter with a Lisp. Yay.<p>Project includes dozens of working examples and a full implementation of the TodoMVC classic to help tire-kickers play around.<p>Support installing freely available on the #matrix channel on the Clojurians Slack.
Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure
This proof-of-concept project combines:
- Flutter, from Google;
- ClojureDart, port of Clojure to Dart from Tensegritics; and
- Matrix, a reactive framework from moi.<p>So, yes, we can now program Flutter with a Lisp. Yay.<p>Project includes dozens of working examples and a full implementation of the TodoMVC classic to help tire-kickers play around.<p>Support installing freely available on the #matrix channel on the Clojurians Slack.
Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure
This proof-of-concept project combines:
- Flutter, from Google;
- ClojureDart, port of Clojure to Dart from Tensegritics; and
- Matrix, a reactive framework from moi.<p>So, yes, we can now program Flutter with a Lisp. Yay.<p>Project includes dozens of working examples and a full implementation of the TodoMVC classic to help tire-kickers play around.<p>Support installing freely available on the #matrix channel on the Clojurians Slack.
Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure
This proof-of-concept project combines:
- Flutter, from Google;
- ClojureDart, port of Clojure to Dart from Tensegritics; and
- Matrix, a reactive framework from moi.<p>So, yes, we can now program Flutter with a Lisp. Yay.<p>Project includes dozens of working examples and a full implementation of the TodoMVC classic to help tire-kickers play around.<p>Support installing freely available on the #matrix channel on the Clojurians Slack.
Show HN: A Japanese learning app focused on efficient vocab/grammar acquisition
Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons!<p>Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar.<p>The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to hear the news, but realized I actually might be one of the few people in the world in a position to keep his work alive. So I reached out, and we came up with a deal where I would sell Jalup content in my apps.<p>Originally it was envisioned as an add-on to Nihongo, but after starting to build this out it became clear that from a UX perspective it felt too bloated and tacked-on to just shove Jalup into Nihongo. Plus, given that Jalup is built around one-time content purchases, and Nihongo is a subscription, the purchases involved would feel convoluted, and people might be upset that they weren’t included in the Nihongo subscription.<p>So, I started building a separate app that would become Nihongo Lessons. From a technical perspective, Nihongo Lessons is actually just a different entry point into essentially the same app bundle as Nihongo. This gives me a lot of the infrastructure (sync, error reporting, screenshot generation, etc.) of Nihongo for free, and makes it easy to share UI, which I do a fair amount of (flashcards, tutorials, settings). Everything that actually changes behavior between the apps is stored in a single file as an “app variant” configuration, so if I decide to create another companion app in the future, it should be even easier.<p>It’s iPhone-only for now, but iPad will be coming soon. No plans for an Android release at the moment.<p>Download: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242</a><p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://japaneselevelup.com" rel="nofollow">https://japaneselevelup.com</a>
Show HN: A Japanese learning app focused on efficient vocab/grammar acquisition
Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons!<p>Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar.<p>The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to hear the news, but realized I actually might be one of the few people in the world in a position to keep his work alive. So I reached out, and we came up with a deal where I would sell Jalup content in my apps.<p>Originally it was envisioned as an add-on to Nihongo, but after starting to build this out it became clear that from a UX perspective it felt too bloated and tacked-on to just shove Jalup into Nihongo. Plus, given that Jalup is built around one-time content purchases, and Nihongo is a subscription, the purchases involved would feel convoluted, and people might be upset that they weren’t included in the Nihongo subscription.<p>So, I started building a separate app that would become Nihongo Lessons. From a technical perspective, Nihongo Lessons is actually just a different entry point into essentially the same app bundle as Nihongo. This gives me a lot of the infrastructure (sync, error reporting, screenshot generation, etc.) of Nihongo for free, and makes it easy to share UI, which I do a fair amount of (flashcards, tutorials, settings). Everything that actually changes behavior between the apps is stored in a single file as an “app variant” configuration, so if I decide to create another companion app in the future, it should be even easier.<p>It’s iPhone-only for now, but iPad will be coming soon. No plans for an Android release at the moment.<p>Download: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242</a><p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://japaneselevelup.com" rel="nofollow">https://japaneselevelup.com</a>
Show HN: A Japanese learning app focused on efficient vocab/grammar acquisition
Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons!<p>Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar.<p>The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to hear the news, but realized I actually might be one of the few people in the world in a position to keep his work alive. So I reached out, and we came up with a deal where I would sell Jalup content in my apps.<p>Originally it was envisioned as an add-on to Nihongo, but after starting to build this out it became clear that from a UX perspective it felt too bloated and tacked-on to just shove Jalup into Nihongo. Plus, given that Jalup is built around one-time content purchases, and Nihongo is a subscription, the purchases involved would feel convoluted, and people might be upset that they weren’t included in the Nihongo subscription.<p>So, I started building a separate app that would become Nihongo Lessons. From a technical perspective, Nihongo Lessons is actually just a different entry point into essentially the same app bundle as Nihongo. This gives me a lot of the infrastructure (sync, error reporting, screenshot generation, etc.) of Nihongo for free, and makes it easy to share UI, which I do a fair amount of (flashcards, tutorials, settings). Everything that actually changes behavior between the apps is stored in a single file as an “app variant” configuration, so if I decide to create another companion app in the future, it should be even easier.<p>It’s iPhone-only for now, but iPad will be coming soon. No plans for an Android release at the moment.<p>Download: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1640204242</a><p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094326</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://japaneselevelup.com" rel="nofollow">https://japaneselevelup.com</a>
Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified
Link: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a><p>Hi HN:<p>After a year of work, I've published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today's mainstream models and frameworks.<p>I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the ideas into practice (in most modules).<p>The notebooks cover how to accomplish everyday NLP tasks including extracting key information, document search, text similarity, text classification, finding topics in documents, summarization, translation, generating text, and question answering.<p>The course is divided into two parts. In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up valuable bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.<p>In part two, we dive into deep learning for NLP. We start with neural network fundamentals and go through embeddings and sequence models until we arrive at transformers and the mainstream models of today.<p>No registration required: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a>
Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified
Link: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a><p>Hi HN:<p>After a year of work, I've published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today's mainstream models and frameworks.<p>I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the ideas into practice (in most modules).<p>The notebooks cover how to accomplish everyday NLP tasks including extracting key information, document search, text similarity, text classification, finding topics in documents, summarization, translation, generating text, and question answering.<p>The course is divided into two parts. In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up valuable bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.<p>In part two, we dive into deep learning for NLP. We start with neural network fundamentals and go through embeddings and sequence models until we arrive at transformers and the mainstream models of today.<p>No registration required: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a>
Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified
Link: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a><p>Hi HN:<p>After a year of work, I've published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today's mainstream models and frameworks.<p>I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the ideas into practice (in most modules).<p>The notebooks cover how to accomplish everyday NLP tasks including extracting key information, document search, text similarity, text classification, finding topics in documents, summarization, translation, generating text, and question answering.<p>The course is divided into two parts. In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up valuable bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.<p>In part two, we dive into deep learning for NLP. We start with neural network fundamentals and go through embeddings and sequence models until we arrive at transformers and the mainstream models of today.<p>No registration required: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a>
Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified
Link: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a><p>Hi HN:<p>After a year of work, I've published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today's mainstream models and frameworks.<p>I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the ideas into practice (in most modules).<p>The notebooks cover how to accomplish everyday NLP tasks including extracting key information, document search, text similarity, text classification, finding topics in documents, summarization, translation, generating text, and question answering.<p>The course is divided into two parts. In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up valuable bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.<p>In part two, we dive into deep learning for NLP. We start with neural network fundamentals and go through embeddings and sequence models until we arrive at transformers and the mainstream models of today.<p>No registration required: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a>
Show HN: Generate never-before-seen storyboards for Rick and Morty episodes
Rick and Mortify is a system we built for creating never-before-seen episodes of Rick and Morty by leveraging the state-of-the-art in generative AI.<p>These days generative AI is so hot right now. It promises to revolutionize all aspects of creative work from copywriting and image creation, to video and audio synthesis.<p>Given the rapid progress of AI, when will we see an AI system listed in the closing credits of your favorite feature-length film?<p>Rick and Mortify is a tool we built to demonstrate that future is closer than you might think.<p>Our tool uses the state-of-the-art in large vision and language models to create never-before-seen episodes of Rick and Morty with minimal human intervention. All the plot points, dialogue, and accompanying visuals are generated with machine learning.<p>Why use Rick and Morty as a case-study?<p>Because 1) given the show's complex narrative structure and character profiles, it offers an ambitious north star for generative AI systems and 2) that show is the bomb and as AI researchers, we want to make Rick proud.<p>Rick and Mortify is only scratching the service of what is possible and we're excited to see what you create with it. If you've been thinking about AI-driven story generation, we'd love to hear from you!
Show HN: Amazon Seller sent me a postcard asking me to leave a 5-star review
Wanted to jump in and throw this here since this is about the first time I've been reached out to by an Amazon seller by mail, directly asking me to leave a 5-star review in exchange for a $20 gift card.<p>With an already struggling E-commerce market, it's quite strange to see the lengths sellers are going to, to buy 5-star reviews from buyers. I am considering reporting this to Amazon, however wanted to run this by you guys and hear similar stories from you!<p>Here is the card I received: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/9ARMZdI.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/9ARMZdI.png</a>
Show HN: I rebuilt MySpace from 2007 (2 year update)
Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web
Creating a basic webpage has become way too complicated and expensive. Often there are those times when you just want to share your thoughts with the world but don't want the overhead and complexities that come with maintaining a website. Sometimes, you have an interesting thought piece, an education article, or just a quick and simple bio page that doesn't need the heavy hand of a WordPress blog or Medium post. That's where Single Page comes in. Publish a single page instantly to the web with no fuss.<p>I was laid off three weeks ago from Twitter and I decided to work through a couple of my projects and this was one of them. I've tried blogs over the years, Medium didn't feel right but yet I wanted to quickly post pages online and couldn't find an easy way to do it. So I created it.<p>Feedback appreciated!
Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web
Creating a basic webpage has become way too complicated and expensive. Often there are those times when you just want to share your thoughts with the world but don't want the overhead and complexities that come with maintaining a website. Sometimes, you have an interesting thought piece, an education article, or just a quick and simple bio page that doesn't need the heavy hand of a WordPress blog or Medium post. That's where Single Page comes in. Publish a single page instantly to the web with no fuss.<p>I was laid off three weeks ago from Twitter and I decided to work through a couple of my projects and this was one of them. I've tried blogs over the years, Medium didn't feel right but yet I wanted to quickly post pages online and couldn't find an easy way to do it. So I created it.<p>Feedback appreciated!
