# HackyHour Ideas Smorgasbord

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## 2024
- Server (performance/load) monitoring (e.g. with [sysstat](https://sysstat.github.io/), [InfluxDB](https://www.influxdata.com/), ...)
- [Finding and Fixing Standard Misconceptions About Program Behavior](https://blog.brownplt.org/2024/04/12/behavior-misconceptions.html), [SMoL Tutor](https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbwXSAkyTGGyYHyM1YTY_UqLfpoXIGMQI3zfCIMjxC2pd9YbEIxhzyf0njwW5rmqPP4lYg/exec)
- [Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio](https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/)
- [SQL for Data Scientists in 100 Queries](https://gvwilson.github.io/sql-tutorial/) + [WhatTheDuck](https://whattheduck.incentius.com/)
- Programming Games ([list of suggestions](https://x-team.com/blog/coding-games/amp/)) e.g.
- [Terminal](https://terminal.c1games.com/)
- [CodeCombat](https://codecombat.com/)
- [Flexbox Defense](http://www.flexboxdefense.com/)
- [CSS Diner](https://flukeout.github.io/)
- Generate synthetic data for linear model with two (binary) explanatory variables (A and B) and different real effects (only A has an impact, both A and B have an impact, the impact of A depends on B) - then look at the estimated coefficients (and their statistical significance) when fitting `~ A`, `~ B`, `~ A + B`, `~ A + B + A:B` - maybe use [drawdata](https://drawdata.xyz/)
- Network simulation with [Filius](https://www.lernsoftware-filius.de/Startseite)
- [wgpu](https://wgpu.rs) - portable graphics library in rust, also running in the browser - maybe checkout [Learn wgpu](https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/#what-is-wgpu)
- Guess the [correlation](https://www.guessthecorrelation.com/), dice, hausdorff, p-values (e.g. 2-sample t-test (maybe different difficulties: bar chart, bar + SE, boxplot, jitter)), maybe reverse (draw something with a given dice/hausdorff/p-value) ... (maybe using [NES.css](https://nostalgic-css.github.io/NES.css/))
- Visualize [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/) data with [VOSviewer](https://www.vosviewer.com/)

## 2023
- [Wikifunctions](https://www.wikifunctions.org)
- Building an interactive scratch map (possibly with AoE-style fog of war, [further inspiration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLqXFF8mlEU&t=1414s))
- [AI playing Pokemon on a python Game Boy emulator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcYLT37ImBY)
- [git commit folders](https://github.com/jvns/git-commit-folders)
- [Nushell](https://www.nushell.sh/) - A new type of shell (related: warp, fig, hyper)
- formal mathematical proofs with [LEAN](https://leanprover-community.github.io/) ([gamified learning](https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/))
- Automatically [translating webpages of the IT](https://www.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/) from German to English (any other) and hosting automatically on a wiki? (remember the accessibility aspect here...)
- [APL](https://tryapl.org) "an array-oriented programming language that will change the way you think about problems and data" - solve some [example problems](https://problems.tryapl.org/). Example: `+/(⍳6)∘.=?10000⍴6` gives the frequency of each number for 10000 dice throws.
- [Elicit](https://elicit.com/) - The AI Research Assistant
- [wgpu](https://wgpu.rs) - portable graphics library in rust, running in the browser - maybe checkout [Learn wgpu](https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/#what-is-wgpu)
- Incorporating non-linear evolutionary game dynamics in IsoMatrix [paper](https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/36/22-23/5542/6039115?guestAccessKey=5b1cea90-1422-4d10-973c-4f073e0b1c62&login=false) the matlab code is [here](https://github.com/mathonco/isomatrix)
- [Research Software Directory](https://research-software-directory.org/software?&search=hypertiling)
- [Button Men](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17/button-men) calculate win probability (OR program simple AI OR analyze past results)
<img alt="Hannah" src="https://github.com/buttonmen-dev/buttonmen/blob/master/src/ui/images/button/hannah.png?raw=true" width="50px"/> :boom: <img alt="Karl" src="https://github.com/buttonmen-dev/buttonmen/blob/master/src/ui/images/button/karl.png?raw=true" width="50px"/>
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- Create a snake-like (browser) game with [Kaboom!](https://kaboomjs.com/)
- Analyse Half Marathon Tracking Data (Andi) :runner:
- OpenStreetMap data in python with [OSMnx](https://osmnx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) or [fun with streets](https://geoffboeing.com/2016/11/osmnx-python-street-networks/)
- shoot the monkey interactive (babylonjs) in vr (unity) or with a molecule/virus (blender molecularnode)
- Reinforcement Learning with [Gym](https://www.gymlibrary.dev/) or [AI Birds](http://aibirds.org/)
- [Runway](https://runwayml.com/) an online video editor with "AI Magic Tools"
- [Galactica](https://galactica.org/) - a language model for science (currently not working 2023/01)
- Benchmark CephFS
- Finish [Oh My Git!](https://ohmygit.org/)

## 2022
- Molecule Structures in Blender with [MolecularNode](https://github.com/BradyAJohnston/MolecularNodes)
- Build a MWE of parallelized plotting and simulation using Makie.jl (e.g. a wave equation ;)) (Andreas)
- Explore [Open Alex](https://docs.openalex.org/) API vs. WikiData (Scholia)
- Build a network from OpenCitations
- Start a challenge site as ~~HackyHour~~ WueCTF Team ([possible sites](http://www.wechall.net/active_sites), selection: [Revolution Elite](https://www.revolutionelite.co.uk/), [247CTF](https://247ctf.com/), [Hack the Box](https://www.hackthebox.com/))
- Kali Linux and [RasPwn OS](https://hackyhour.github.io/Wuerzburg/pad_archive/HackyHour_Wuerzburg_74) &rarr; do we want to do this next time?
- Play with the data from Numerai https://numer.ai/ (Tilman)
- Play with Stable Diffusion in [Dream Studio](https://beta.dreamstudio.ai)
- Voting Systems → [Arrow Theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem) (example of a voting system: [STV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_single_transferable_votes#Meek))
- Checkout DrWatson https://juliadynamics.github.io/DrWatson.jl/dev/ a scientifc project assistant in julia
- [ResearchEquals](https://www.researchequals.com/)
- [Flexbox Froggy](https://flexboxfroggy.com)
- [NWERC](https://2022.nwerc.eu/contest/) and [GCPC](https://gcpc.nwerc.eu/about) programming contests
- [Pluto Notebooks](https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl) ? Better than Juypter ?
- Text for a HackyHour advertisment poster
- cookietemple: https://cookietemple.com/index
- Programming Challenges: [Kattis](https://open.kattis.com/), [CodeChef](https://www.codechef.com)
- Try [TorchStudio](https://www.torchstudio.ai/)
- Data analysis with natural language: [veezoo](https://www.veezoo.com/)

## Earlier
Look ad [pad 63](https://hackyhour.github.io/Wuerzburg/pad_archive/HackyHour_Wuerzburg_63) and before.