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Ask HN: Senior Thesis
I am going to start on my senior thesis next semester, now, I am looking for ideas. I hope that I can work on something somehow practical and technically hard enough to be a senior thesis.
Do you guys have any idea in mind that you want to see?
- phil 15y agoWhat field? What kinds of things are you interested in?
- siong1987 15y agoanything will do. but, i am more interested with things that will have to handle massive data. data mining, distributed computing, etc.
- paulgerhardt 15y agoI'm biased, but I think anything post-pc makes for fascinating thesis material. Maybe watch the Arduino documentary for some inspiration? It's only 28 minutes: http://arduinothedocumentary.org/ http://arduinothedocumentary.org/
- siong1987 15y agocool. will take a look at this.
- ivankirigin 15y agoMake an ether-wiki. That would be an edit-in-place realtime collaborative editing website that had an easy syntax to create links to other documents. It would be like a wiki but lower the barrier to editing the doc. Instead of markdown, have a style editor while editing. The real-time nature of it is the hard part.
- siong1987 15y agothis is really interesting. will definitely look into this. i always want to work on something realtime.
- ivankirigin 15y agoemail me if you have any questions moc.liamg@nigirik.navi
- siong1987 15y agosure. i definitely will. that is a interesting way to mask your email. will suggest this to my prof and see what he says.
- lightblade 15y agoIs it a project (something you make) or paper? Paper ideas: - The ethics and legal issue regarding the recent Dropship news. - Whether or not Bitcoin can replace real currency. Project ideas: - Artificial Neural Network - Any mobile app
- siong1987 15y agoMind to explain more about Artificial Neural Network?
- simon_weber 15y agoCheck out any standard AI work for a detailed explanation. Here's some inspiration on what's been done with them (back in the day anyway...if you check out this company their product is used in blockbuster games like GTAIV): http://bit.ly/k30h02 http://bit.ly/k30h02
- russjhammond 15y agoI am in a similar boat, trying to hone in on a topic for an independent research project. At the moment I am considering researching which industries might be disrupted by crowdsourcing similar to how stock photography and language translation have. If you go down the distributed human computation route, let me know as we may have some areas to compare research findings.