Re:Algorithm Development is Broken
by DennisP on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @02:30PM
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The API is interesting but what I really want is to understand the algorithms. Clean, clear reference code in multiple languages with good explanations would be hugely helpful. Is that part of the plan?
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Yes definitely. The code is available for people to learn from, and you will be able to edit the code and see the results immediately. The goal is to all about making algorithms more accessible.
This is the most interesting part to me. I agree with the other people commenting in this thread that advanced algorithm design (as seen in journals) isn't broken. Interesting advanced algorithms do get spun out into open source implementations.
A non-academic community based around discovery, discussion and implementation of algorithms would be an interesting place to hang around. A MVP would be, basically, a discussion forum with an index of github repos for the implementations, but there are other values to be added on top.
Good luck. I'll be paying attention to what becomes of your project.