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This is is a list of projects I would’ve tried to build myself if I had infinite time and attention. I may still do some of them for fun in my free time!
Research and AI 4 Science
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Automatically analyze year over year conference papers to find trends, topics and new problems. This is a continuation ofAutomated Paper Classification projects
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DeepResearch but for selected fields like chemistry using specialized tools like ChemCrow and additional data sources, direct inspiration from Openreview For PaperQA
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Grant search: find, notify and help to apply for grants in art (extend to other fields). Crawls, parses and matches relevant art grants, scholarships, and competitions. Let artists worry about art only! Lots of art funding results in bad allocation due to a bad visibility, competition needs to be improved. Similar to Tendery
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Write a paper review using (fine-tuned) LLM and use explainable AI techniques on it to guide scientists on what’s important
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Framework to parse papers and extract datasets and benchmarks, then automatically tag them and upload to a centralized place like https://huggingface.co/. Google Scholar-like profiles of researches with open datasets vs closed non-reproducible ones.
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Reinvent a lab notebook: take screenshots every second, pass through LLM, combine into an automatic log and attach AI agents to automatically try follow ups and fix TODOs. Also take best practices fromthis post
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Connect PhD students with MBA students to found deep tech startups, find the most promising projects automatically via parsing papers and Ranking With LLMs
Community building
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A nice visualization of “What are you working on” HackerNews threads with automatic tags and timelines, similar to HackerNews Prediction Evaluator
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Combine discord communities from this list into a (constantly updated) website to find people working on similar projects
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OpenInternship: similar to comma.ai/bounties create a list of simple semi-relevant projects for each company, match with motivated students, promote successful achievers to a proper internship or full-time positions. Helps to build a CV for students, tests proof of concepts for companies/research labs. This is a continuation of my Paper To Project topic
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An emergency group to build more houses, check every construction in a city and see what causes delays and how to speed it up. Automate with LLMs. Apply to any bureaucratic process.
Time savers
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Best posts of the week for any website as a newsletter (best of a discord group, best of Twitter posts etc), because I can’t keep up with online slack and discord communities, but use subreddits’ “top” page all the time
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Semantic search for Outdoor Rock Climbing routes
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From a picture of an art (or any museum) piece and its description, automatically create or broaden a Wikipedia article
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Export messenger chats and emails and process them with local LLMs (How to use local LLMs like qwen coder for autocomplete) to
- Create a year overview with important moments for self-reflection
- Analyze your thinking pattern to highlight cognitive biases and blind spots
- Create a life recap so far and write an autobiography
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Anki cards but converted to tiktoks/reels/shorts for higher engagement. Similar: Project Idea - ProcrastiLearn
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List of recently found startups in a category (travel) to get under priced services/items
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Road quality detection app that puts this data to OpenStreetMap. Create a smooth road route for bikes afterwards, pick up from this reddit post
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Use Gaussian Splatting or NeRF on top of Mapillary (similar to Google Street View) data to build a 3D city/neighborhood to walk around in VR
- On top: drive around these streets in a car to prepare for a driving exam (check signs and crossings)
Gaming
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Succession games (similar to Boatmurdered, a succession Dwarf Fortress playthrough) automated using crypto and an auction to get the coolest saving files (also from streamers). Example: “Fix the government” - one person in a sandbox creates a dysfunctional state, others pick up that saving file and try to recover
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LLM that plays poker, dwarf fortress, figgie or Heroes of Might and Magic
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A videogame of running a business with a roadblocks written by LLMs. Start with an idea, LLM throws you a challenge like (“oh competitor started to do the same”, “you top sales employee left”, “you didn’t procrastinate enough and you burned out”) and you have to solve them as a CEO. A bit similar to a PhD simulator
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A civilization-like game but with a basic magic law, which you can advance by researching them (start with “possible to transfer a bit of heat from the air to fingertips” and research to fireballs at some point). Possible new spells are discovered through a voting on blockchain.