Ask HN: Volunteer opportunities in science for software engineers?

Fireballs in the Sky is an Australian citizen science program that invites people around the world to learn about fireball and meteorite science that began with the research of the Desert Fireball Network and has since expanded into the Global Fireball Observatory, a multi-institutional collaboration, with partner networks around the world.

https://fireballsinthesky.com.au/

https://dfn.gfo.rocks/

https://gfo.rocks/

As projects go this has core devices; home camera tubes that recognise paths in the sky and pool these to improve location finding, forums for people collaboration, drone searching, vehicle software (quad bike, cars) for grid searching.

The end goal is finding rocks - ideally big rocks that are older than the earth itself ..

Report a fireball: https://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo/report_intro

Let me know if your find anything interesting. I'm also quite keen on contributing to science

Mix and match one's own take on clips/tidbits from random search engine results[a][b] to 'gnarfle the [tex] garthok'[snl][tex]

Put all the software engineering discipline/experience towards a diy tool for more creative/interactive instruction on learning L-systems & APL without a spreadsheet grid!

Enable a new way to envision/do calculus exercises.[0][1][2][3][4] aka think the equation, see the equation, em(c*c) the equation (projector or 3d printing)

sdiff/ripgrep what absorbed in class few days later with what 'think' remember and have chatgpt explain where the gaps are!

Ah, guess not a diy thing till OS on DB[register] is ported for use with modern take on magnetic core memory[core1][core2].

So for now, just a possible irl envisioning of 'the matrix' concepts in textile as spacesuit wearable/portable fully self contained data warehouse.

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[a] : http://www.technovelgy.com/

[b] : https://www.creativeapplications.net/

[snl] : https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gnarfle%20th...

[tex] : https://tikz.dev/

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[0] : "The Hybrid Artisans: A Case Study in Smart Tools" (2014) : https://amitz.co/ewExternalFiles/ToCHI_FreeD.pdf /

[1] : "Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text" https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1010811

[2] : https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-convert-any-text-into-...

[3] : https://github.com/VikParuchuri/texify (Removes the extra brain to hand step in process https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39391080/extracting-hand... and/or make Minority report hand interface obsolete)

[4] : https://wherobots.com/havasu-a-table-format-for-spatial-attr...

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[register] : https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/26/michael_stonebraker_f...

[core1] : magnetic core memory : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory [core2] : '21st century' core memory : "Smart textile fiber places conductivity and flexibility side-by-side" : https://newatlas.com/materials/smart-fabric-fiber-conductivi...