mekarpeles

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by mekarpeles 6y ago
I work over at the non-profit Internet Archive running their Open Library. There are a lot of people in the space, applying their entrepreneurial affinities towards public good. I spent ~5 years doing startups before joining the Internet Ar
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by mekarpeles 6y ago
See also https://metacademy.org , one of the most inspiring knowledge package managers I've seen prototyped.
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by mekarpeles 7y ago
Thanks @sayhar! specially given so many libraries across the country are currently shut down.
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Internet Archive raises National Emergency Library: 1M free books no waitlist(cnet.com)
19 points by mekarpeles 7y ago|3 comments
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by mekarpeles 7y ago
This question appears in https://controlleddigitallending.org/faq . Specifically for our sponsorship program at this stage, we decided to limit eligible books to those we had no copies of (in the interest of maximizing prese
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by mekarpeles 7y ago
Mek here from Internet Archive's OpenLibrary.org. We've thought carefully about this as well. We feel it's critical that Internet Archive and Better World Books aren't the only organizations involved in determining which
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by mekarpeles 7y ago
mek here from Internet Archive's openlibrary.org project. We've been in broad talks w/ folks like OpenAI about how the contents of texts may be used to power better discovery and to increase usefulness of books. Open Library
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Internet Archive: Donate Ethereum and Democratize Open Library's Bookshelves(blog.openlibrary.org)
21 points by mekarpeles 8y ago|1 comments
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by mekarpeles 8y ago
- foundations + government grants https://archive.org/post/2776/who-funds-this - donations (in-cash / in-kind) https://archive.org/about/credits.php - digitization services https:/
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Internet Archive Announces Lead Eng. Role for Archive.org
16 points by mekarpeles 8y ago|0 comments
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by mekarpeles 9y ago
Why did you lose interest? Both SOPA and Docket 17-108 fundamentally address freedom of speech on the Internet. The outcome of the SOPA fight was the 2015 Open Internet Order (which ostensibly treats the Internet as a public utility and pro
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by mekarpeles 9y ago
If I understand, the author is suggesting something like pagerank for axiomatic correctness where a paper's score can be interpreted per paper (in terms of some binary promise of "correctness") even if the score is computed b
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by mekarpeles 9y ago
P.S. One way you might describe this project is "an axiomatic Euclid's Elements for all scholarly knowledge". You might also like metacademy.org (one of my favourite projects -- it's a package manager for knowledge built
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by mekarpeles 9y ago
@averagewall, check out openknowledgemaps.org Also, citeseerx and crossref are your friends. Pubmed central similarly has the ability to return much of this citation data programatically (for certain scientific subdomains) If you're pa
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Reverse engineering FPGAs(proteusisc.org)
2 points by mekarpeles 10y ago|0 comments
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by mekarpeles 10y ago
In the same vein, the Internet Archive recently hostly the Decentralized Web Summit in SF ( http://decentralizedweb.net ).
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by mekarpeles 11y ago
+1 for YC Research's basic income (and standard for quality of life) Meta-Research. +1 for @mietek's Meta-research; creating a distributed, open ecosystem (not a website, but a protocol) for publishing and navigating interdiscipl
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by mekarpeles 11y ago
There should be a way to suggest/tag an existing solution (to generate conversation -- why is their solution better?) This seems like a good way to help people collaborate and not re-invent the wheel, unless there's a compelling r
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by mekarpeles 11y ago
For anyone interested, the Internet Archive has a small but tight open source community called Archive Labs <archivelab.org> (all experimental services) We're working on several initiatives, like bringing OpenAnnotations to the w
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by mekarpeles 11y ago
@diamondman responded to this in another thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/338t25/the_lack... "I actually want to hook OpenOCD into my Daemon to bring some sanity to how it manage
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by mekarpeles 11y ago
About @diamondman's Adapt Framework (github.com/diamondman/adapt) Adapt is an open, modular framework which offers a streamlined approach for JTAG controllers to speak to target devices (currently CPLDs and soon fpgas). Adapt
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by mekarpeles 12y ago
MortenK, these are great pieces of feedback. It's disappointing that job marketplaces like oDesk/elance don't incorporate these heuristics into their process in attempt to raise the quality bar. In terms of better developers,
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
Consider creative ways of finding fellow freelancers and partner with them to share relevant opportunities. Ideally, partner with people you respect as being equally smart and driven. We are often judged by our friends.
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
3 weeks without work is a nice feature so long as one has options/opportunities to work. It is possible to earn a professional livable wage on Elance, however the professions for which freelancers are being employed via Elance are freq
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
There are a lot of premium / hybrid solutions out there which may offer you the balance and higher price points you're looking for. Toptal (a16z) does temporary placements and is one such hybrid model. There's also gun.io (ac
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
To a degree, I think these distinctions both support and are a logical consequence of haberman's argument (please correct me if I'm wrong). As computing systems evolves, we learn more about how to address their constraints and how
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
Definitely need it if you're living there... Fellow connectican
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
During my first startup, I worked 6 or 7 day weeks, 13+ hours a day. At Hyperink, in my first year, I (on my own accord) slept in the office over 30 days. During this entire stretch, I was perhaps more productive and happier than any other
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
Nate and Ari know what they're doing, great guys and great programmers.
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by mekarpeles 13y ago
Ha, thanks Jim! Probably need a: "from hashlib import sha256" in there too!

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