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Russian military equipment buffs needed to help build training datasets for a machine learning project to support Ukraine. The data demands for this project are massive and we really need people who are familiar with (or willing to get familiar with) Russian military equipment to help us build larger, more accurate datasets.

This is with Engineers for Ukraine, which is an all volunteer, non-profit project building tools to support the Ukrainian warfighter. I’ve talked about Engineers for Ukraine before in these Reddit posts:

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xm51ql/want_to_volunteer_for_ukraine_remotely_aidsupply/
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/vlsaka/volunteers_needed_for_proukraine_project/

If you would like to join us and help Ukraine, please reach out to breaker25789@gmail.com with the team you are interested in. We will reach out and schedule a video call in which you can verify that we aren’t Russian bots and we can verify that you are not a Russian bot by both showing a government-issued photo ID and two social media accounts. As part of the recruitment process, each volunteer must successfully complete an introductory assignment specific to the team they are apply to.

FAQs

Will we get to meet a real human before joining this project?

Yes! You will have a video call with a member of Engineers for Ukraine before joining our project in which the team member will show you their ID.

What is the process to join this project?

Email breaker25789@gmail.com with the team you would like to join and your availability for a video call with a team member.

What is machine learning and how does it use images from Ukraine?

Machine learning lets computers learn more than what they are explicitly programmed for. Using large amounts of training data, machine learning models use statistical relationships to categorize information. This lets the machine learning model analyze new data that it has never seen before.

For our project, our data team creates the example data by taking real-world photos from the war in Ukraine and listing the Russian equipment in the photo. Our model will then be able to see new photos about the war in Ukraine and identify Russian equipment.

Is this project affiliated with a government, university, company, or any other institution?

We are just a group of computer scientists who wanted to do something to help Ukraine. This project is home-grown and not part of any company or government. We will make our project’s output freely available to the public.

Does this project have a website?

This project will have a public website when the project is complete. If you are interested in helping build the website, please consider joining our development team. All help is appreciated!