Ask HN: How can I help the scientific community?

2 points by prideout 4y ago ↗ HN

I have a computer science / math education. I love creating software and I'm quite skilled at it. But, I'm also very interested in physics and astronomy, and I greatly admire the people who push those fields forward. I want to write tools for scientists in my free time, but I don't know what they need. How do I find out?

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rolph 4y ago ↗

check these out:

https://www.citizenscience.gov/

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/citizenscience/citizen-science....

https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/citizen-scie...

anthk 4y ago ↗

Help Gnu Scientific Library, Lapack and BLAS.

bartmika 4y ago ↗

A previous post on HN via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31330502 on distributed computing might be interesting?

j2kun 4y ago ↗

Maybe reach out to Arfon Smith, who does a lot of stuff at GitHub and is passionate about astronomy: https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/arfo...

I recall talking to him years ago about tools for scientists and how GitHub could help.