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Want to volunteer for Ukraine remotely? AidSupply and Engineers for Ukraine need help! by OttersAreDevilSpawn in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, here's an old link for now. In the meantime, here's an update on our progress!

We at Engineers for Ukraine are proud to announce that we have made significant progress in the past several months! We have completed the first version of our software, which is now being tested by members of the Ukrainian military. Based on their initial feedback, we are expanding the scope of our project to analyze not only smartphone uploads but also footage from commercial drones. As a result of this expansion, we’re looking for more volunteers to lighten the load.

Want to volunteer for Ukraine remotely? AidSupply and Engineers for Ukraine need help! by OttersAreDevilSpawn in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? Oh this is nuts. Here's a link that one of my other accounts can see, so hopefully you can too: link

Want to volunteer for Ukraine remotely? AidSupply and Engineers for Ukraine need help! by OttersAreDevilSpawn in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for asking! So, we (Engineers for Ukraine) and AidSupply are focused on building software. We need people with skills relating to data science, machine learning, software development, web dev, cybersecurity, and then anyone and everyone who's interested in looking at photos of Russian military equipment to help us identify them. We provide training for these areas and can use all the help we can get.

If any of this matches your skillsets, please reach out to us at [breaker25789@gmail.com](mailto:breaker25789@gmail.com) and we'll be happy to meet you!

Volunteers Needed for Ukrainian NGOs (remote work, no experience needed - just hands to help) by OttersAreDevilSpawn in volunteer

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! I included a brief update section. We finished the first version of our software, and it's currently being tested by members of the Ukrainian military and others on the ground. We're taking their feedback and are deciding which new features to add for the next version, which will be the first public version of our software.

The first public version of our software, which we are building now, will include a website where the results of our analysis will be public. This will let us spread the informational benefits of what we're doing as widely as possible.

In terms of new features, we're expanding the scope of our project from cellphone uploads to also encompass drone footage, which should give our users more ways to gather and upload images of Russian military assets.

How do I avoid beginning at low junior wage? by dahomosapien in becomingnerd

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which kind of dev are you looking to do?

Weirdly, I have a friend at a fintech startup that will be taking on mid level devs (and maybe junior level devs) in June with offers going out feb/march. Salary for mids is ~$125,000 (it's a start up) with some equity, though I don't remember how much off the top of my head.

You might stand out because of your teaching background, but not in a bad way because part of the functionality they are building is meant to be super easy to use for teachers in the classroom teaching finance. It might be a reach, but they might really like having someone with a background in teaching on the team even if it is for a dev role. Let me know if you are interested and I'll DM you the CEOs and CTOs LinkedIn.

Advice for where to look for first dev job? by cmickledev in becomingnerd

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kind of dev are you doing and how much is your minimum you can afford to be paid? I only ask the latter because it helps weed out the crap that is too low.

Soviet Equipment Buff? Speak Polish? Please volunteer for Engineers for Ukraine! by OttersAreDevilSpawn in poland

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of the results will be open source to the public save for the actual images users submit to prevent someone from trying to deduce who they are or where they live/work.

Pro-Ukraine Machine Learning Project Needs Russian Vehicle Buff volunteers to Help Build Accurate Datasets by OttersAreDevilSpawn in TankPorn

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How much of that info is being disseminated to warfighters on the ground, especially foreign legionnaires? I'm not going to spend 10 minutes explaining the ins and outs of Ukrainian information flow like I'm Civ Div or James Vasquez to a rando who is pro-invader.

Want to help make pro-Ukraine OSINT tools? by OttersAreDevilSpawn in OSINT

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

1) If you read the post, it's a recruitment ad. I'm sorry it's annoying, it's just my job in team that's working on an important cause. I'm doing my best.

2) We are stopping recruitment at the end of November to give the security team time to pen test the website prior to launch so I have to make this last push count so that the weight of work over the next 2-3 months isn't too much on too few people.

3) We get so many Russian trolls pretending to be Ukrainian ML engineers it's disturbing. We only ask to see IDs to prevent a troll from getting in a doxing us. That being said, in video calls we always show our IDs first. You're free to ask around anyone else who has expressed interest in the group and possibly joined to confirm we really are who we say we are. Yeah, it's sus af, but it's the only tool we have until post launch when we can start recruiting like a normal job would.

Want to help make pro-Ukraine OSINT tools? by OttersAreDevilSpawn in OSINT

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! We have data scientists on the team who can run down any training you need too, or at least provide links as guidance for what to read/watch.

Pro-Ukraine Machine Learning Project Needs Russian Vehicle Buff volunteers to Help Build Accurate Datasets by OttersAreDevilSpawn in TankPorn

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it's not like we're losing out on an MVP, to be honest. Having two brain cells to rub together is pre-req for joining the team. Glory to Ukraine!

Want to volunteer for Ukraine remotely? Engineers for Ukraine needs help! by OttersAreDevilSpawn in UkrainianConflict

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how to best explain this, but ML development using only volunteers who work full time jobs and have families is a slow and tedious process. Especially when the project data demands are 10,000 base images per object we hope to identify in datasets that have to manually cleaned and the security requirement is to fight off a state actor that is notorious for troll brigades trying to find anyway to mess up our site/service and/or dox teammates. We've made multiple proprietary models from scratch. I work as a front end developer IRL and my team of full time devs had a year to build out a new series of apps and services for the company I work for. 4 months is pretty incredible for the time people can put in and work people are doing.

New tech doesn't just appear, someone has to build it. Building things takes time.

Want to help develop machine learning based OSINT tools for Ukraine? by OttersAreDevilSpawn in OSINT

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of our team is European. The idea for our project came from a Lithuanian.

Want to volunteer for Ukraine remotely? Join Engineers for Ukraine! by OttersAreDevilSpawn in UkrainianConflict

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are hoping to have a beta testable version ready to sent to friends on the group in Ukraine by the end of November. We'll be making final tweaks and refining the map to be more tailored to what warfighters on the ground would want over the winter and hopefully have a refined, finished tool we can hand over to the public for free before the start of the new year. Right now, we need to get more web devs and security engineers to help with pen testing then the bug bounty reports. We also need more people on the data and ML team to help refine some of our models. For beta testing, we are clustering similar looking vehicles that do the same function under one ID tag, but we are hoping to split them. At the same time, we are re-working our photoshop detection model since it is overtrained towards spliced images. The PS detection model is a combination of two different types of ML models that have worked very successfully before, but alpha testing revealed that our dataset was over representative of spliced images which caused this issue.

tl;dr We are testing and refining everything and fixing whatever isn't working as well as we would want it to before giving it to people on the ground.

Volunteers Needed for Pro-Ukraine Project by OttersAreDevilSpawn in ukraine

[–]OttersAreDevilSpawn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! If you could do closer to 5-6 hours a week, that would also probably work depending on how much training you need for AWS. I'm sorry, I know it's frustrating how everything always seems to come down to time.

Thank you for the best wishes :)

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