getToTheChopin

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Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)(collidingscopes.github.io)
121 points by getToTheChopin 2y ago|24 comments
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Thank you -- much appreciated. Sine waves are such a simple/nice effect for movement.
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Thank you! I've been playing around with using a noisy gradient image as the input. Something like this: https://stock.adobe.com/my/search/images?k=noise+gradient It makes for some interesting liquid textures
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Turn photos into oscillating wave animations -- just upload a picture, then drag the sliders to adjust the waves that are used to manipulate the image You can control the sine wave frequency and amplitude in both X/Y directions. You ca
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Show HN: turning photos into oscillating wave animations (JS FOSS project)(collidingscopes.github.io)
5 points by getToTheChopin 2y ago|6 comments
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Blender and Fusion 360 are quite popular. I suggest you watch some beginner's tutorials to see which option would be better for your use case.
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
I've found chess very good for this. I can easily play for 3-6 hours in one session while getting completely in flow / losing track of time. My wife is not as much a fan of this... Canadian chess grandmaster Eric Hansen used chess
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
This is an open source project to turn photos into kaleidoscope animations. Live website: https://collidingscopes.github.io/ Built using javascript, HTML, CSS. Enormous thanks and credits to Luke Hannam, whose blog post exp
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Show HN: Turning photos into kaleidoscope animations (JS open source project)(collidingscopes.github.io)
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Show HN: Image Mage - remix and reimagine your photos (free / open source tool)(imagemageage.github.io)
2 points by getToTheChopin 2y ago|2 comments
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Image Mage is an open source web tool for remixing and reimagining your photos. * Upload a photo * Choose a visual style (pointillist, sketch, roller) * Drag the sliders / re-generate new images This is an free & open source projec
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
There are plenty of small ISPs operating in Canada. Many have been acquired by Bell / Telus / Rogers in recent years, but there are still dozens of players offering fixed wireless or fibre connections -- mostly in rural areas. ht
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Twyman's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by getToTheChopin 2y ago|1 comments
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Twyman's law states that "Any figure that looks interesting or different is usually wrong", following the principle that "the more unusual or interesting the data, the more likely they are to have been the result of an e
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Segal's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
43 points by getToTheChopin 2y ago|41 comments
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Segal's Law: "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
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Syncretism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by getToTheChopin 2y ago|1 comments
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by getToTheChopin 2y ago
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus
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Naismith's Rule(en.wikipedia.org)
47 points by getToTheChopin 3y ago|14 comments
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
Naismith's rule helps with the planning of a walking or hiking expedition by calculating how long it will take to travel the intended route, including any extra time taken when walking uphill. This rule of thumb was devised by William
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
Thanks. I actually started writing this course to share with friends. Explaining the fundamentals of budget tracking and Boglehead investing got a bit tiresome, so I decided to write it down. I find it only leads to more questions and more
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Moonshine Money: a DIY guide to personal finance(themeasureofaplan.com)
4 points by getToTheChopin 3y ago|6 comments
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
This is a free course that I wrote to explain the foundational concepts of personal finance. It covers building an emergency fund, tracking your spending / budgeting / net worth, paying down debt, investing, automating your financ
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Chess Therapy(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by getToTheChopin 3y ago|0 comments
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
I will work on building those extra charts / features. BTW -- the allocation per sector chart is already available on the Dashboard tab. You can tag each stock with an investment category on the Setup drive, which then drives that char
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
Let me know if any questions as you're setting it up
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
Portfolio Slicer is very comprehensive, but there are some drawbacks: - Doesn't work on Macs - User is required to maintain their own csv files containing daily pricing data for their stocks - For the point above, yes this can be somew
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
Yes it does calculate your portfolio return using both methods. The money-weighted return is simpler to calculate, leveraging the XIRR formula built into Google Sheets. The time-weighted return is calculated using a script that cycles throu
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Investment Portfolio Tracker – automated portfolio return calcs and benchmarking(themeasureofaplan.com)
3 points by getToTheChopin 3y ago|10 comments
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by getToTheChopin 3y ago
Free google sheet template with the following features: - Uses Google Finance formulas to automatically pull the current share price of your investments daily - Calculates the $ and % return of your portfolio between any range of dates - Co

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