I have a problem that appears to me to be both interesting and technical: There are about 3 billion people using the Internet, and there is lots of content on the Internet, e.g., just for the data types still images, video clips, Web pages, PDF files, audio clips, Web cams, IoT, and maybe more.
So, how is a person with an interest, at some time, to find the content for that interest? Uh, treat the interest as unique in all the world. Part of the challenge is meaning, how to get the content with the meaning they want?
So I used some pure math prerequisites and derived some new applied math for a solution. No, it's not data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cluster analysis, regression analysis, principle components analysis, classification, random forests, regression trees, discriminate analysis, neural nets, sigmoid function approximations, categorical data analysis, speech recognition, natural language processing, the semantic graph, etc. I haven't assigned a name to the math.
For users, the work is just an easy to use Web site, with just two main pages, very simple HTML, no cookies, no user IDs, and nearly no JavaScript.
The code is based on Microsoft's .NET with IIS, ASP.NET and a little use of ASP.NET. The total, on-line and off-line, is 100,000 lines of typing with a lot of in-line comments and about 24,000 programming language statements. There is also a lot of documentation external to the code.
I didn't use an "integrated development environment" and, instead, just typed in the code using my favorite text editor KEdit with some dozens of my KEdit macros.
So to me the problem has been interesting and so has the solution. Deep in the code is my new applied math. Also there are some new or tweaked computer science algorithms. As time goes on and I have a significant server farm, there may be more interesting problems with interesting solutions.
So far all the code appears to run as intended. It's my first code for this project and my first Web site, but I tried to write production quality code and not prototype code. And the site is supposed to be a good solution and not just a "minimum viable product". The architecture of the code and the server farm are fairly scalable just by some simple sharding. If this project gets to be a big thing, then scaling might become challenging with some serious changes in the code.
So, how is a person with an interest, at some time, to find the content for that interest? Uh, treat the interest as unique in all the world. Part of the challenge is meaning, how to get the content with the meaning they want?
So I used some pure math prerequisites and derived some new applied math for a solution. No, it's not data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cluster analysis, regression analysis, principle components analysis, classification, random forests, regression trees, discriminate analysis, neural nets, sigmoid function approximations, categorical data analysis, speech recognition, natural language processing, the semantic graph, etc. I haven't assigned a name to the math.
For users, the work is just an easy to use Web site, with just two main pages, very simple HTML, no cookies, no user IDs, and nearly no JavaScript.
The code is based on Microsoft's .NET with IIS, ASP.NET and a little use of ASP.NET. The total, on-line and off-line, is 100,000 lines of typing with a lot of in-line comments and about 24,000 programming language statements. There is also a lot of documentation external to the code.
I didn't use an "integrated development environment" and, instead, just typed in the code using my favorite text editor KEdit with some dozens of my KEdit macros.
So to me the problem has been interesting and so has the solution. Deep in the code is my new applied math. Also there are some new or tweaked computer science algorithms. As time goes on and I have a significant server farm, there may be more interesting problems with interesting solutions.
So far all the code appears to run as intended. It's my first code for this project and my first Web site, but I tried to write production quality code and not prototype code. And the site is supposed to be a good solution and not just a "minimum viable product". The architecture of the code and the server farm are fairly scalable just by some simple sharding. If this project gets to be a big thing, then scaling might become challenging with some serious changes in the code.
I'm a sole, solo founder and 100% owner.
I intend to announce alpha tests here on HN.