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Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning
- amasad 5y agoKobra is awesome! They're part of the Replit Venture program (https://blog.replit.com/ventures https://blog.replit.com/ventures). The company is started by 16 year old hackers. There is a cool demo of the product here: https://kobra.dev/demo https://kobra.dev/demo
- tylermenezes 5y agol know one of the founders, Benjamin, who has been a many-time CodeDay participant. He spends a lot of time helping the newer coders understand how to turn their ideas into code on our Discord, and is always friendly and obviously passionate about helping others learn to code. I'm super happy something like this exists to help him work on the next generation of coding education software.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y agoReplit Ventures itself seems like a neat endeavor to support cool projects like Kobra, especially since the barrier for entry seems to be low. I wish it succeeds and helps create successful startups on the way. PS I would like to add Replit Ventures under the incubator section of my curated list of startup tools - https://startuptoolchain.com/ https://startuptoolchain.com/ . Which URL should I be pointing to? Is that blog page current home for Replit Ventures as the application page is closed?
- Garlef 5y ago> https://blog.replit.com/ventures https://blog.replit.com/ventures > [...] Replit Ventures will give a grant of $2000 each [...] It's not a substantial amount money but a nice token of appreciation nontheless. I guess the real value comes in the form of networking, exposure and mentoring.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y agoConsidering they're open to the world, $2000 for a side project is a good motivator and of course network is the real value for any incubator.
- amasad 5y agoYeah point to the blog for now. If we have a landing page we’ll make the blog redirect to it. Thank you!
- qsort 5y agoThis sounds interesting! I'm generally not a fan of visual programming, but working on models is very visual and I could very well see this being a viable alternative to notebooks/jupyter. Also, I haven't poked around much but it's very obvious the blocks map to a standard python-numpy-pandas stack, so it could be easy to integrate Kobra with git/other code/rest of the tech stack.
- pranavnt 5y agoIf you'd like to try it out, feel free to email me at pranavnt@outlook.com and I'd love to help you get started!!
- hrnn 5y agoHave you tried Orange? I found out about it as it was one of the anacounda launcher icons. It's all visual (you connect circles) and it's a great workbench to test ideas and datasets.
- peterthehacker 5y agoGreat job! Looks like there’s a layout issue on mobile for your homepage. The content is squished to the left side of the screen in portrait mode. Switching to landscape mode fixes it.
- pegasuswa 5y agoGo Kobra!!
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- king_magic 5y agoCurious how this is different from the original, now defunct version of Azure Machine Learning Studio.
- pranavnt 5y agoI haven't used that before, with Kobra we're focusing more on building a tool to teach ML as opposed to being an AutoML tool (which that appears to be).
- king_magic 5y agoOriginal wasn't AutoML, it was somewhat similar to what Kobra looks like. https://gilberttanner.com/blog/code-free-data-science-with-microsoft-azure-machine-learning-studio https://gilberttanner.com/blog/code-free-data-science-with-m...
- bayonetz 5y agoA lot of overlap with Knime and Rapidminer. Why approach it with visual programming vs the direct execution graph approach like they do?
- Merlin04 5y agoWe're focusing more on education than building an AutoML tool, and we think visual programming helps the user understand more of what's going on behind the scenes.
- cableclasper 5y agoReally cool! I see a resemblance to scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu/
- canada_dry 5y ago> "Welcome to Kobra Studio... CONTINUE WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT" Nice. I'm guessing the Kobra.dev folks are HN regulars!
- canadianfella 5y agoThe same HN that requires an account and keeps telling me that I’m posting too fast?
- ReedJessen 5y agosold. I want to invest.
- makuza_mugabo_v 5y agoI'm on kobra team you can email me at mugaboverite@gmail.com so we can talk
- swframe2 5y agoI think https://www.perceptilabs.com/ https://www.perceptilabs.com/ is a little better. But I hope the future is more like DreamCoder: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381
- amitport 5y agoIMHO, this only makes sense as part of a bigger non-code data software such as SPSS or Tableau. I don't see non-programmers picking this up from scratch, but if they're already doing data work, this is much better than current SPSS scripting, etc., (I actually only used SPSS scripting, so I can't testify about other tools)
- sinuhe69 5y agoCan Cobra export the script in text form (and import them, of course)? That would make the language much more powerful and useful because people can then start exchange ideas and cross-validate other people’s works. It also makes the code easily reproducible.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoIs that some python wrapper exposed through anyblock or something, that they call a new language?
- Paradigma11 5y agoPersonally i am very excited about: https://enso.org/ https://enso.org/ which is running on https://www.graalvm.org/ https://www.graalvm.org/. Code is interchangably dual represented visually and textually so you can use what fits best.
- yboris 5y agoEnso looks amazing! Thank you for sharing!