l know one of the founders, Benjamin, who has been a many-time CodeDay participant. He spends a lot of time helping the newer coders understand how to turn their ideas into code on our Discord, and is always friendly and obviously passionate about helping others learn to code. I'm super happy something like this exists to help him work on the next generation of coding education software.
Replit Ventures itself seems like a neat endeavor to support cool projects like Kobra, especially since the barrier for entry seems to be low. I wish it succeeds and helps create successful startups on the way.
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I would like to add Replit Ventures under the incubator section of my curated list of startup tools - https://startuptoolchain.com/ . Which URL should I be pointing to? Is that blog page current home for Replit Ventures as the application page is closed?
> [...] Replit Ventures will give a grant of $2000 each [...]
It's not a substantial amount money but a nice token of appreciation nontheless. I guess the real value comes in the form of networking, exposure and mentoring.
This sounds interesting! I'm generally not a fan of visual programming, but working on models is very visual and I could very well see this being a viable alternative to notebooks/jupyter.
Also, I haven't poked around much but it's very obvious the blocks map to a standard python-numpy-pandas stack, so it could be easy to integrate Kobra with git/other code/rest of the tech stack.
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I haven't used that before, with Kobra we're focusing more on building a tool to teach ML as opposed to being an AutoML tool (which that appears to be).
We're focusing more on education than building an AutoML tool, and we think visual programming helps the user understand more of what's going on behind the scenes.
IMHO, this only makes sense as part of a bigger non-code data software such as SPSS or Tableau.
I don't see non-programmers picking this up from scratch, but if they're already doing data work, this is much better than current SPSS scripting, etc., (I actually only used SPSS scripting, so I can't testify about other tools)
Can Cobra export the script in text form (and import them, of course)? That would make the language much more powerful and useful because people can then start exchange ideas and cross-validate other people’s works. It also makes the code easily reproducible.
Personally i am very excited about: https://enso.org/ which is running on https://www.graalvm.org/. Code is interchangably dual represented visually and textually so you can use what fits best.
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I would like to add Replit Ventures under the incubator section of my curated list of startup tools - https://startuptoolchain.com/ . Which URL should I be pointing to? Is that blog page current home for Replit Ventures as the application page is closed?
> [...] Replit Ventures will give a grant of $2000 each [...]
It's not a substantial amount money but a nice token of appreciation nontheless. I guess the real value comes in the form of networking, exposure and mentoring.
Also, I haven't poked around much but it's very obvious the blocks map to a standard python-numpy-pandas stack, so it could be easy to integrate Kobra with git/other code/rest of the tech stack.
It's all visual (you connect circles) and it's a great workbench to test ideas and datasets.
https://gilberttanner.com/blog/code-free-data-science-with-m...
Nice. I'm guessing the Kobra.dev folks are HN regulars!
But I hope the future is more like DreamCoder: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381
I don't see non-programmers picking this up from scratch, but if they're already doing data work, this is much better than current SPSS scripting, etc., (I actually only used SPSS scripting, so I can't testify about other tools)