Ask HN: How can I help the scientific community?

2 pointsby prideoutabout 3 years ago

I have a computer science / math education. I love creating software and I'm quite skilled at it. But, I'm also very interested in physics and astronomy, and I greatly admire the people who push those fields forward. I want to write tools for scientists in my free time, but I don't know what they need. How do I find out?

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j2kunabout 3 years ago

Maybe reach out to Arfon Smith, who does a lot of stuff at GitHub and is passionate about astronomy: <a href="https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/arfon-smith" rel="nofollow">https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/arfo...</a>I recall talking to him years ago about tools for scientists and how GitHub could help.

bartmikaabout 3 years ago

A previous post on HN via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31330502" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31330502</a> on distributed computing might be interesting?

rolphabout 3 years ago

check these out:<a href="https://www.citizenscience.gov/" rel="nofollow">https://www.citizenscience.gov/</a><a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/citizenscience/citizen-science.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.nps.gov/subjects/citizenscience/citizen-science....</a><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience" rel="nofollow">https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience</a><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/citizen-science/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/citizen-scie...</a>

anthkabout 3 years ago

Help Gnu Scientific Library, Lapack and BLAS.