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This week, the first batch of grants for makeabetter.computer was sent out. I'm so excited and impressed by everyone who took the time to share what they're working on with us.
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Before I share more about the projects, I want to give a quick shout-out and massive THANK YOU to everyone who was generous enough to contribute and sponsor grants.
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A project that I originally budgeted to fund 5 applicants grew to support 20, and it's become of these people we were able to do that.
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Now to talk about some of the projects!
1/ @lilhxnna is exploring the potential of RISC-V by building compilers, emulators, and other low-level programs on this fascinating open-source instruction set.
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2/ is working on a multi-modal reverse visual search to help humans creatively enrich their curiosities and deeply immerse themselves in archives.
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3/ A new programming language that supports safer typing models that compiles to the JVM, allowing programmers to work with more confidence. Built by @matthallosu
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4/ is working on aesthetic technology that enriches our environments, in the ubicomp spirit of Mark Weiser
Check out his other experiments on
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5/ is building tools to make interactive guides and allow people to write complex "human programs"
Learn more about what he's doing here:
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7/ is building a browser extension that lets you use natural language to instruct websites.
Just ask your calendar to "create a new event for 6 pm tomorrow with Jade" or ask Mixpanel to "show me a graph of our daily users over two months.
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8/ A visual data model editor for building backends and databases inspired by natto and other visual programming tools.
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9/ is building a new web browser engine that allows you to create web pages directly with markdown instead of HTML
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10/ @hiranmay_ is exploring and designing for the future of computing. They're working on reimagining the file system and designing novel interfaces.
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11/ is working on a standard for Unicode Separated Values (USV) for international approval by IANA
Check it out here:
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12/ Working with natural language processing to make computers better at developing new drugs for rare diseases.
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13/ Using NLP, build a semantic search platform to help med students sort through and analyze large amounts of data more efficiently.
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14/ Research into a reinforcement learning algorithm that can edit its source code, therefore, creating a self-improving program.
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15/ is building a text-based music editor that lets visually impaired/disabled users compose music.
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16/ is building a prototype of a new abstraction for representing and storing things on a computer.
Read more about it here:
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17/ Developing an open-source CPU prototype that implements the RISC-V instruction set with integrated graphics.
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18/ A cross-platform sandboxed "OS" & runtime that isolates state changes into deterministic database-like ACID "events" and persists the entire runtime state on disk via incremental memory snapshots
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A few people asked to keep their projects private for now, but we'll be sharing more in-depth writing on them and the others in this thread on makeabetter.computer over the next few months.
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