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by catbird 8y ago
If your taxes aren't complicated (i.e. you use the standard deduction), there's a service called "Free Fillable Forms" through the IRS that allows you to fill out your tax forms online and e-file them for free. Many stat
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by catbird 8y ago
Yes! I used to have an extension that allowed you to resize any image (even in the middle of a page) by holding a button and scrolling. It was fantastic, but was never migrated to the new extension format unfortunately.
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by catbird 8y ago
Would it make sense to compare the output images to their nearest neighbors in the training set in order to establish some metric of "originality"? Sorry if that is a basic question, I haven't read much on image synthesis wit
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by catbird 8y ago
Philadelphia still has trolleys running on tracks, though maybe less routes than before. http://www.septa.org/maps/trolley/city.html
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by catbird 8y ago
Oh wow, that site is excellent. I think this is the query I was thinking of before, the percentage of passes conditional on down and distance: http://www.yardsgained.com/#(passes_~_sacks)_~_(passes_~_sac...
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by catbird 8y ago
Very cool! I would love to see heatmaps of play type with downs on one axis and yards-to-first-down on the other.
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by catbird 8y ago
I think they are asking what happens if another program edits the index while the Polar program is running, which still might happen if the library is stored in something like Dropbox and multiple computers have it open at the same time.
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Generative Art Speedrun(tholman.com)
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by catbird 8y ago
Bravo to The Atlantic for actually linking to the source journal article.
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by catbird 8y ago
Thanks for sharing - that was an incredible story. I find David Blaine fascinating because many of his magic tricks aren't tricks per se, he just does things that would be unthinkable for the average person. For instance he often takes
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by catbird 8y ago
That all sounds great, but how does it actually work? So there's an immutable entry describing you in a database, then how do you convince someone that you're the person it describes? Do you need to memorize a private key? If it g
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by catbird 8y ago
Then you get a "weighted Voronoi diagram," haha. If the weights are multiplicative, the edges between adjacent cells become circular arcs. It looks cool, but it's much more difficult to generate and analyze. For instance, the
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by catbird 8y ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
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by catbird 8y ago
Makes me wonder if there was some innovation in the production of violet pigments around that time. I recall an art historian friend telling me once that a certain school of landscape painting was directly enabled by the introduction of pre
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by catbird 8y ago
Can you recommend a place to order these beans? I'm interested to try roasting at home.
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by catbird 8y ago
And if you want to make chiptunes on the go, check out the Pocket Operator synthesizers that he designed [0]. They're a ton of fun, and people on the bus will ask you why you have headphones plugged into your calculator. [0] http:&#x2
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by catbird 8y ago
This new Chrome "feature" mutes audio from many browser games and interactive audiovisual websites, offering no indication that audio is muted, and no way for the user to restore the audio. By trying to silence autoplaying video a
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by catbird 9y ago
Good common sense stuff, but I had to laugh though when I saw the authors hidden comment explaining how he got out of his funk that day: "made my bed (I usually don’t), meditated with Alto’s Odyssey for 10 minutes, did the dishes, went
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by catbird 9y ago
I think it was a mistranscription, and should read as "force sensors" (a.k.a. load cells) rather than "four sensors."
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by catbird 9y ago
Thanks! Sounds like a fun project.
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by catbird 9y ago
What type of espresso machine do you use that allows you to program a controller for the heating element?
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by catbird 9y ago
If the individual pods are a bit asymmetrical (not a perfect cylinder) the overall surface with have some curvature.
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by catbird 9y ago
I don't see any reason why an autonomous car couldn't be trained to move to the left lane before an on ramp, or classify neighboring cars by their observed behaviors (slow reaction time, etc). Also, I would argue that maintaining
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by catbird 9y ago
Wow, is there any way to see how much SCAM they have sold so far?
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by catbird 9y ago
Why would anyone buy a Tether? Are people getting into cryptocurrencies really that clueless? I can see the idea behind bitcoin, that somehow it can hold value due to its inherent scarcity and high demand. But if the Tether supply is unlimi
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by catbird 9y ago
Thank you for linking the TED talk. I did not know that Mandelbrot had also applied his fractal analysis to financial data.
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by catbird 9y ago
I don't understand the transit example presented in this article. I feel like I am missing something fundamental about the utility of any of these distributed services backed by their own type of coin. For the transit example you have
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by catbird 9y ago
Very cool! I love the guitar mode especially (as long as I'm leaning far to the left to get a clean sound haha). I was wondering, what are you using to make this? Are the sounds sampled, or is there digital synthesis going on?
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by catbird 9y ago
Small SUVs are for people who want the cargo space of a wagon but don't want to be blinded by the headlights of other people driving SUVs.
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by catbird 9y ago
A map distorted by a non-spatial metric is often referred to as a "cartogram." The wikipedia page has a nice list of algorithms for computing different types, which might give you some inspiration. https://en.wikipedia.

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