The project AI Zoo is one I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. The general idea is that I provide a world in which vegetation grows, water flows, and the sun shines valiantly during the day. This world, full of API hooks and leaderboards, provides the basis for programmers to create their own species and let it loose unto to the world to see how it fares in the face of survival, competition, and evolution.
Labs
Idea: AI Zoo
Idea: Peer Resume Critiques
You have a resume that you want critiqued before handing it off to a potential employer. What do you do?
You upload it to this site and wait for comments from others. For every comment that you leave on another member’s resume that they mark as “constructive”, you will accumulate more points that you can spend bumping your resume to the top of the list of ones to be reviewed.
Filling out your profile to inform others of your interests and profession (so they can better understand where your advice is coming from) earns you additional points that you can spend.
Idea: Birch Knowledge Engine
Birch is a project into knowledge search engines. It functioned differently than the standard Google search by providing an API to sites directly that allowed them to expose structured data. By using this API, the engine can return the answer to what you’re looking for, rather than links to what might be the answer.
Some examples of what sites might expose through the API are structured profiles (allowing people to find the profiles of everyone who works at a certain company, regardless of site), status updates, science facts, equations, and so on.
The name Birch comes from the site’s unique monetization strategy: allow sites that use the API to pay whatever they want for it. A constant percentage goes towards Birch costs, while the rest goes to seed upcoming charities that are indirectly sponsored by the sites.