So last weekend, I spent 36 hours at UofT for their annual hackathon. If you have not been to a hackathon, I highly recommend it! There are tons of like minded individuals making awesome projects.

Check out the swag I collected:

I even got a new domain name for free: http://squabbit.tech/. Yes, SquabbitTech is our “company” name :3

The application my team built was a super-fuzzy note searching tool called Fuzzy Wuzzy. The idea is, several years after writing down notes, it is very difficult to remember exactly what you wrote. So we built an application that guesses what you want to search for. We designed three algorithms, but only had time to implement two of them: synonym, misspelled word, and idea group matchers. For instance, searching for “small” will return notes containing the word “tiny”. We didn’t have time to create the idea group algorithm, but we had it planned out. If you search for “car”, everything that is a car will be matched (e.g. “Honda Civic”).

We built the project as an API using Flask - a micro web framework for Python. It is extremely simple in comparison to other frameworks like Symfony. It provides templating, routing, and database engines that are all super easy to get started with.

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