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Used in a bot already. Interesting to bounce against the Perer Norvig's famous spell checking algorithm. http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html\n\n[TailorDev/Watson](https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson)\n\nCommand line tool to keep track of projects! Something I've wanted to keep track of productivity. in Python\n\n[Melissa-AI/Melissa-Core](https://github.com/Melissa-AI/Melissa-Core)\n\nBot. Uses Google's speech-to-text. In Python.\n\n[angr/angr](https://github.com/angr/angr)\n\nbinary analysis framework. Hacking ish. Be cool to learn assembly better. Python\n\n[ValveSoftware](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr)\n\nVR is cool. This is how you make VR. \n\n[zzw922cn/AutomaticSpeech_Recognition](https://github.com/zzw922cn/Automatic_Speech_Recognition)\n\nSpeech recognition from scratch using tensorflow\n\n[kootenpv/whereami](https://github.com/kootenpv/whereami)\n\nUse wifi and machine learning to predict your location. The underlying math for this would be cool for an arduino project\n\n[Qix-/better-exceptions](https://github.com/Qix-/better-exceptions)\n\nBetter exceptions for Python.\n\n[gurugio/lowlevelprogramming-university](https://github.com/gurugio/lowlevelprogramming-university)\n\nLow level programming. Because I keep thinking I want to do some low level stuff\n\n[ZheC/Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation](https://github.com/ZheC/Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation)\n\nMulti pose esitmation. Can't remember why this is cool. But you, know. Computer vision things. \n\n[kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap](https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap)\n\nThe mind map in this one is cool. The topic of becoming a web developer is maybe less cool.\n\n[DeepInEvil/webCamEmocognizer](https://github.com/DeepInEvil/webCamEmocognizer)\n\nEmotion detector in python\n\n[blei-lab/onlineldavb](https://github.com/blei-lab/onlineldavb)\n\nOnline variational bayes for latent dirichlet allocation. The online piece of this is cool\n\n[sotelo/parrot](https://github.com/sotelo/parrot)\n\nRNN-based generative models for speech\n\n[getlogbook/logbook](https://github.com/getlogbook/logbook)\n\nLogging replacement for python. Seeing alternate ways to log (which I don't do enough of anyways) would be cool.\n\n[snikolov/rumor](https://github.com/snikolov/rumor)\n\nNonparametric timeseries classification for twitter trending topics. Cool idea, requires a lot of data to decide what is a trend.\n\n[oxford-cs-deepnlp-2017/lectures](https://github.com/oxford-cs-deepnlp-2017/lectures)\n\nNLP course\n\n[donnemartin/viz](https://github.com/donnemartin/viz)\n\nPython visualization library. Be neat to dive in to figure out how to produce the graphs and things. Looks at most popular github repo\n\n[rabidgremlin/Mutters](https://github.com/rabidgremlin/Mutters)\n\nFramework for building bot brains. Could be cool.\n\n[SylvainDe/DidYouMean-Python](https://github.com/SylvainDe/DidYouMean-Python)\n\nModule to have suggestions in case of errors. This guy reached out to me on Reddit. Really should help him clean up his repo. Cool idea.\n\n[jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook](https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook)\n\nGood reference for creating jupyter notebooks\n\n[altair-viz/altair](https://github.com/altair-viz/altair)\n\nVisualaztion library for jupyter. Just really interested in data visualization.\n\n[scipy-lectures/scipy-lecture-notes](https://github.com/scipy-lectures/scipy-lecture-notes)\n\nLooks like there's some interesting things about manipulating images that might be cool\n\n[wbkd](https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-interactive-journalism)\n\nApplied visualization.\n\n[jbwhit/OSCON-2015](https://github.com/jbwhit/OSCON-2015)\n \nInteresting ideas on how to source control jupyter notebooks. Theres a youtube video of this talk.\n\n[jdwittenauer/ipythoon-notebooks](https://github.com/jdwittenauer/ipython-notebooks)\n\nExamples of jupyter notebooks\n\n[nickgillian/grt](https://github.com/nickgillian/grt)\n\ngesture recognition toolkit\n\n[Yelp/MOE](https://github.com/Yelp/MOE)\n\nThere's a slidedeck and video that I want to checkout in the README that talks about Metric Optimization Engine.\n\n[rhiever/tpot](https://github.com/rhiever/tpot)\n\nGenetic programming with python sounds neat\n\n[openai/gym](https://github.com/openai/gym)\n\nLibrary for Reinforcement Learning\n\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbenhoff%2Fgithub-star-explanation","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbenhoff%2Fgithub-star-explanation","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbenhoff%2Fgithub-star-explanation/lists"}