<a href="http://orangemind.io" rel="nofollow">http://orangemind.io</a> - I have created a blog where I collect the best short stories that I write(most of them are funny scifi flash fiction written in response to propmts on /r/writingpropmts)<p>You can read my story "The Game"(<a href="http://orangemind.io/story/the-game" rel="nofollow">http://orangemind.io/story/the-game</a>), and if you like it - subscribe to the monthly updates about the best stuff that I create, you will probably like it =)
GrockDoc.com - writing for pleasure.<p>This week I will publish 3 new Cassandra articles per day to coincide with Cassandra Summit.<p><a href="https://grockdoc.com/cassandra/2.1/articles" rel="nofollow">https://grockdoc.com/cassandra/2.1/articles</a><p>Next week I'll likely start writing/publishing articles on webpack.
I built a business strategy robot. Answer a handful of yes/no questions, get actionable advice for free. <a href="http://taprun.com/robot/" rel="nofollow">http://taprun.com/robot/</a>
I was hoping to launch a prototype of my food web app, but I just realized that I had added some enhancements to a number of its dependencies so I am working on pull requests to give back.
I just finished a fun little Geiger Counter prop - realistic look and sound, but with a slide potentiometer under the thumb so you can crank the radioactivity up or down on a whim.<p>The Arduino code for the DFRobot Beetle that runs it is here: <a href="https://github.com/Qworg/GeigerCounterSimulator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Qworg/GeigerCounterSimulator</a>
<a href="http://codingbrain.com" rel="nofollow">http://codingbrain.com</a> - a knowledge management app aimed at software devs and technical bloggers.<p>It's a local search engine, web scraper, note taking, markdown editor, bookmarking, history app. I've been pondering a tool like that for a long time and it's now almost ready for the public.
Machine learning competition: <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/springleaf-marketing-response" rel="nofollow">https://www.kaggle.com/c/springleaf-marketing-response</a><p>Trying to build a more generic and reusable system to tackle ML problems (competition oriented though, not real world)
Working on the final touches for a real time bidder:<a href="http://www.aychedee.com/2015/09/18/writing-a-real-time-bidder-with-go/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aychedee.com/2015/09/18/writing-a-real-time-bidde...</a>.
I'm working on a demo video for my photo cross posting app Polarfox. (<a href="http://www.polarfox.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.polarfox.com</a>)<p>The video will show how easy it is to post photos to muliple social networks and blogs at once.
Project: <a href="https://www.ghostnoteapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.ghostnoteapp.com</a><p>Work: Mostly fixing a bunch El Capitain related issues with my side project
I've been trying to drag my focus back around to more AI / Machine Learning stuff for a while, so to give myself a sandbox to play with (and a starting point) I built[1] an AIML[2] bot using program-ab[3]. Then I wired it up to XMPP[4] so I could chat with it. Then I turned it into an OSGI[5] bundle so it could run in Apache Felix[6]. And I installed ejabberd[7] on the fogbeam.org domain so I would have a convenient place to play with bots that talk XMPP.<p>Right now it doesn't do much besides replying to a few stock inputs like "hi" and "howdy" and "Hello", but I just started on this about a week or two ago. I also started adding "@ commands", and it will respond to "@time" with the current time.<p>From here on out my plan is to get back into studying AI techniques heavily again and see what things I can do to make this bot "smarter". I have done a lot of work based on Semantic Web technologies, so I'll probably start working on how to do some stuff with this based on using an RDF[8] based knowledge-store. There are a couple of OSS projects out there for translating natural language queries into SPARQL[9], so I might soon try wiring this up to where it can use dbPedia and / or Wikidata, as well as other Linked Data[10] sources to answer questions.<p>I'm not strictly interested in any Turing Test or Loebner Prize[11] stuff, as I'm more interested in making something useful than something that emphasizes "tricking" somebody into thinking it's human. That said, if it ever worked well enough, I think it would be fun to enter something like the Loebner contest, but that's not the main goal here.<p>Also, right now I'm reading Hofstadter's book <i>Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies</i>, and have been playing around with ACT-R[12], a popular "cognitive architecture" for doing AI research.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/mindcrime/LearningAIML" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mindcrime/LearningAIML</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/program-ab/" rel="nofollow">https://code.google.com/p/program-ab/</a><p>[4]: <a href="http://xmpp.org/" rel="nofollow">http://xmpp.org/</a><p>[5]: <a href="http://www.osgi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.osgi.org/</a><p>[6]: <a href="http://felix.apache.org/" rel="nofollow">http://felix.apache.org/</a><p>[7]: <a href="http://ejabberd.org" rel="nofollow">http://ejabberd.org</a><p>[8]: <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/RDF/</a><p>[9]: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/</a><p>[10]: <a href="http://linkeddata.org/" rel="nofollow">http://linkeddata.org/</a><p>[11]: <a href="http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html</a><p>[12]: <a href="http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/</a>