pravenj

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by pravenj 8mo ago
I have
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by pravenj 1y ago
I am working on this mobile app that is a cross between karaoke and musical instrument practice. Through playing music for a long time, I realize that playing with a band or with the actual song is important to get a good feel of music, spe
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by pravenj 3y ago
25 years ago I needed an app that would transliterate my writing in English to my native language (Nepali), as I did not know how to type in my native language (which I still don't). So I made a 1 person use transliterater. The fonts u
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by pravenj 3y ago
Coolest thing I learned is to clone trees. Roughest thing I learned is that most people who talk about climate, don't really want to plant trees. They just want to talk about it.
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by pravenj 4y ago
If you checked out all others maybe you want to check this one too. Its in Nepal and pioneers of various tech in cataract surgery -- https://tilganga.org/ Their number of treatment is pretty impressive (73,49,257 is their c
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by pravenj 4y ago
I wrote and made collection of stuff, but literally nobody read in last few years. Realized blogging (or making anything on the web) comes with a lot of marketing. Hence found text files to be better for note to oneself.
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by pravenj 4y ago
Thank you... Will do.
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Ask HN: Please suggest an open source project work on
1 points by pravenj 4y ago|2 comments
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by pravenj 4y ago
I have started planting local fruit trees with an aim to plant 120,000 local fruit trees in the next 3-5 years. Currently I have reached 3000 in the last 5 months, with another 1000 in polybags. Leaving programming after 25 years of it, I w
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by pravenj 5y ago
My daugther(18) and I(47) create a comic series at https://www.instagram.com/arghhhcomics/ . We use Inkscape and Gimp for them. Now we have animated series coming up, called Misunderstood, where daughter is exploring bl
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by pravenj 5y ago
Having mentored quite a few gifted science students, the best thing that I have found is to give them a problem, give them a bunch of things and tools that they can break and tell them find a solution. Find time to discuss various solutions
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by pravenj 5y ago
Here is a list of things I have been doing from the time I left programming 2 years ago, roughly having worked for around 24 years. I was left with lots of time and didn't want to work only in one thing like programming before. So I go
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by pravenj 6y ago
Not only language barrier, many pieces of great music and dance, specially from oral cultures like mine, go unnoticed most of the time. Few songs to listen for the added variety and by local singers from Nepal: https://www.youtu
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Listing of Over 60 varieties of Nepali Music
1 points by pravenj 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are new Tools to help create online course?
2 points by pravenj 6y ago|0 comments
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by pravenj 9y ago
Thanks. Looks good, will definitely check it out.
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by pravenj 9y ago
how about building a social platform and further learning site for serial entrepreneurs?? Serial entrepreneurs get together to test ideas, projects, etc... They learn mainly by seeing what others are doing and sharing thoughts. I go to sit
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Raspberry pi controlled Greenhouse(medium.com)
4 points by pravenj 9y ago|0 comments
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by pravenj 9y ago
We, meaning 3 of us, have automated a greenhouse using Python code running on a raspberry pi -- this includes getting data from sensors within the greenhouse (temperature, humidity, soil moisture, soil temperature, carbon dioxide), from an
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by pravenj 10y ago
maybe hack a project for extreme affordability from hackproject.org? More problem discussion in the slack channel where you can self-register hackprojectorg.herokuapp.com. Even old problems or simple problems that you might have not even lo
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by pravenj 10y ago
My methods are divided into 2 -- binge and short bursts. In both I tend to use open ended questioning, perspectives and reflections as ways of enhancing the learnings. Binge is method I use to learn a lot about a topic in the shortest perio
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by pravenj 10y ago
Would love to test it. Where do I use it from???
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by pravenj 10y ago
Could collaborate on a project that I am contemplating as well as testing out bits and pieces. One thing though I probably am located very far from you and the project would be more of a research project. If interested a few rounds of email
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A bucket a day – a hack in agriculture(medium.com)
2 points by pravenj 10y ago|1 comments