4 ms·
Ask HN: How can I help the scientific community?
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?
- anthk 4y agoHelp Gnu Scientific Library, Lapack and BLAS.
- rolph 4y agocheck these out: https://www.citizenscience.gov/ https://www.citizenscience.gov/ https://www.nps.gov/subjects/citizenscience/citizen-science.htm https://www.nps.gov/subjects/citizenscience/citizen-science.... https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/citizen-science/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/citizen-scie...
- bartmika 4y agoA previous post on HN via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31330502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31330502 on distributed computing might be interesting?
- j2kun 4y agoMaybe reach out to Arfon Smith, who does a lot of stuff at GitHub and is passionate about astronomy: https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/arfon-smith https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/arfo... I recall talking to him years ago about tools for scientists and how GitHub could help.