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Euler was a mathematician after all. Now thinking about it I wonder what project Djikstra would look like, or say maybe project Stallman.
by Nydhal 9y ago
Euler was a mathematician after all. Now thinking about it I wonder what project Djikstra would look like, or say maybe project Stallman.
- seanp2k2 9y agoProject Stallman: Find the Github project with the most open-source license term violations (then convince them to fix it).
- skocznymroczny 9y agoProject Stallman would be finding a project with open-source license and convincing them to adopt copyleft instead.
- zaarn 9y agoOr maybe find all projects which aren't using the GPLv3+ or are using the word Linux without prefixing GNU/ or GNU+ or GNU- or GNU* appropriately or allow running, distributing, compiling, touching or ingesting of proprietary code.
- zaarn 9y agoI think a Project Turing might be an interesting one, solving problems specific to computer science (maybe something like pathfinding, evolutionary algorithms, data structures, etc)
- macintux 9y agoOr simply writing programs against the classic Turing machine. I wrote one out by hand 25 years ago, 3 pages I think to add two integers.
- indigochill 9y agoThere's a Project Rosalind (named after Rosalind Franklin) which is sort of like Project Euler for bioinformatics: http://rosalind.info/about/ http://rosalind.info/about/
- otakucode 9y agoProject Rosalind (which has mostly been subsumed by the larger Stepik effort I believe?) is fantastic and a much more directed, progressive setup than Project Euler. I enjoyed PR greatly, and each problem led naturally to the next, whereas PE is just random problems and one might be monstrously difficult and on an utterly different topic than the next. A comprehensive mathematics project that grew in complexity the way PR does for bioinformatics would be unbelievably awesome.
- westurner 9y agoI like https://rosalind.info https://rosalind.info bioinformatics problems because: - There are problem explanations and an accompanying textbook. - You can structure the solutions with unit tests that test for known good values. - There's a graph of problems.