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I've built and worked on this exact problem before at bigtech, startup and personal projects.

Regex works well if you have a very limited set of sender and recipient accounts that don't change often

Bayesian or DNN classifiers work well when you have labeled data.

LLMs work well when you have a lot of data from lots of accounts.

You can even combine these approaches for higher accuracy

  Location: Sweden, EU
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Looking for short-term or part-time consulting projects.

Background: 10+ years experience across startups and big tech (ex Google and Stripe). Lead and contributed to projects in compliance/security, distributed systems (Fintech, payments processing, real-time communication), machine learning and AI, as well as developer productivity and release engineering.

6700 / 10000. I guess because I didn't zoom on the map and got the time off by 34 years of the actual event.

The scoring could be improved.

This reminds me of Microsoft FrontPage more than 20 years ago.

> Can you explain in what way did this manifest in Sweden for instance? Or have any data/evidence besides some semi-vague claims about antisemitism and some immutable characteristics of European societies (which are hardly monolithic to begin with).

If you live in Sweden then you will also know that the state puts refugees in the same areas (Rinkeby, Vivalla, Tensta, etc ...). These areas are then labeled as unsafe because of a slightly elevated crime rate and because they're labeled unsafe, swedes start moving out and quality of services and house prices drop and the downward spiral continues until the area becomes a ghetto even though they're usually not that bad.

Although SFI exists to teach Swedish to immigrants, the quality of the teaching is not great in most schools.

That's where the integration effort stops.

Even professionals who move to Sweden for work have a hard time integrating in Swedish society. That's how you end up with people living in upscale parts of Stockholm for 10+ years and can barely form a sentence in Sweden.

Making their APIs easy to use like they used to be 10 years ago will be equivalent to releasing their core assets. In the past you could do almost anything from the Facebook API that you could do with their web or mobile app.

They release a lot of open source stuff as other commenters have mentioned but you can't build a Facebook or Instagram competitor just by integrating those components.

In a past job I built a code search clone on top of Kythe, Zoekt and LSP (for languages that didn't have bazel integration). I got help from another colleague to make the UI based on Monaco. We create a demo that many people loved but we didn't productionize it for a few reasons (it was an unfunded hackathon project and the company was considering another solution when they already had Livegrep)

Producing the Kythe graph from the bazel artifacts was the most expensive part.

Working with Kythe is also not easy as there is no documentation on how to run it at scale.

I've used both Code Search and Livegrep. No, Livegrep does not even come close to what Code Search can do.

Sourcegraph is the closest thing I know of.

Henry Kissinger has a heavy German accent that didn't prevent him from becoming one of the most influential American politicians of the 20th century.

I worked on something like this more than a decade ago back when bayesian classifiers were SOTA for sentiment analysis. It's relatively easy to use an existing model to bootstrap and fine tune a new model. The hardest part is collecting and cleaning up the data for training.

Unfortunately this has already been happening for a decade or more since the NATO "intervention" in Libya and it has little to do with climate change.

I'm interested in this space and other mining-adjacent industries in the DRC-Zambia copper belt region due to the potential of this region to be a key player in central Africa's development and the world's move into electric vehicles.

The main challenge is getting capital.

Let's get in touch!

The CMU Database Groups YouTube channel has a very good material on this. I highly recommend the Intro to Database Systems videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/CMUDatabaseGroup/playlists

Thank you for sharing this link. The Internet Archive is truly a marvel of unequaled value. Didn't know it had such a trove of warez without the risk of pwnage that warez and torrent sites came with.

Software is already having a big impact. Just think of all the tools that allowed us to work from home and not commute during the pandemic and how different the world would have been if we did not have them.

A area where software will have a huge impact is crypto mining. As a community we should be proactive in reducing the amount of energy wasted on crypto mining. If you think about it, only the rich have the ability to mine lots of crypto coins and these are people who could have used the same investment to do more positive things in their communities like donating computers to local schools or let the electric power they consume be used for more meaningful purposes instead of buying yet 10 more GPUs and plugging them into the grid. NVIDIA was on the right track with their firmware changes to slow down mining.

Maybe the better question to ask is "why isn't file reversion control adopted more outside of software engineer?"

Git a is distributed version control system that most people shouldn't have to deal with. It has awful tools and doesn't work well with binary files, large files and moved files. Just an example: How do you diff two copies of an excel document with Git?

Most people don't have to deal with multiple "master" branches with no single source of truth because that's really what Git is for.

What most people need, including software engineers working in closed source, is a single source of truth with good history, diff and large files support.

I believe a tool like Dropbox or even centralized version control systems like Subversion or Perforce are better positioned to solve this than Git.

Many cloud based tools already have features that give them the upper hand over git. For example, Google docs allows collaborative editing and editors have access to file history and can revert to specific versions.

Maybe there are tools to diff binary files like two versions of an audio file or two excel documents or whatever two [domain specific file format] documents.

I will be happy if version control came at the file system or cloud drive level and the app just leveraged this integration seamlessly instead of forcing everyone to learn the difference between between branching, rebasing, cloning, copying, stashing, etc...

If you have access to free university or you can get a loan then by all means go get a degree.

Your existing programming experience will give you a head start in a few courses.

Most importantly, it will be easier for you to get an internship while studying and you will get exposed to real world software engineering in a hopefully successful software company.

The degree will also make it easy to relocate across the globe. Some countries require university education or many years of experience to even let you work there as a software engineer.

It's worth noting that La Gomera is quite far from the more western islands: Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Visitors staying on those islands might need to plan their La Gomera visit ahead of traveling to the canaries.

I've never used Wise because it doesn't serve my country. In fact there's no shortage of remittance services besides Wise.

The main problem is that the KYC and risk checks run by european and american companies don't take into account how people relate to each other in Africa and how money flows in the continent. It's possible that one person regularly sends money to several relatives with different names and in different cities in the span of a few weeks. Fraud detectors at the european/american remittance companies don't like that.

Many of us are also living abroad temporarily and want to retire in our home countries. We want to repatriate most the money we earn abroad but banks in the west don't make it easy.

These are my biggest pain points and your solution is similar to what I had in mind but more geared towards the lesser served markets: Portuguese and French speaking countries.