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Another related blog post is "Building the Image Grid from Google Photos": https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/building-the-image-grid-fr...
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This seems quite similar to RawGraphs: https://rawgraphs.io/ Both seem to provide a similar interface for dragging in a CSV file and constructing a chart, but RawGraphs is open-source, and can be used in the browser without
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> Here's a $5 hammer, hit him with it until he gives us what we're looking for, so goes the comic I saw once. You are probably thinking of the $5 wrench in https://xkcd.com/538/
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Sensible anonymisation policies prevent people from referring to "our previous work" in submissions - e.g., the policy for CHI [1] states: > We do expect that authors leave citations to their previous work unanonymized so that
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> The original paper is no longer accessible. (An alternative is to add the equivalent of a big red stamp on it saying "RETRACTED" while leaving the content accessible.) I think you are slightly confused - the "alternative
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> This is the grey area I am talking about. You licensed the rights exclusively to ACM, in perpetuity. In fact, your own publication of the pdf may also be non-compliant, but nobody has sued you as that would be political suicide The &qu
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Interesting - with the focus on animations, Vizzu seems most similar to Gemini/Gemini2 https://github.com/uwdata/gemini https://uwdata.github.io/gemini-editor/ https://uwdata.githu
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From the LWN FAQ: > What are subscriber links >A subscriber link is a mechanism by which LWN subscribers may grant free access to specific LWN articles to others. It takes the form of a special link which bypasses the subscription gat
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SIGTBD is a joke conference [1, 2] (like SIGBOVIK [3], but internal to MIT) [1]: http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/# [2]: https://thetech.com/2016/04/08/csail-v136-n11 [3]: http://www.si
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When I upload the demo file, the UI for the Match step says that "0% of your rows have a value for this column" (and therefore that "100% of rows fail validation (repair on next step)"). However, the mini preview table o
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> I'm working with a researcher who is conducting experiments using turk, and he has a half-written shoddy version of what crowdflower offered For doing research, I think Prolific [1] is a popular alternative. They include features
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If you know the graph is planar, then you can find the Tutte embedding by solving a set of linear equations [1]. However, the problem of finding a drawing that minimises the number of edge crossings (or even just the number of crossings in
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And clicking on "Other Miscellaneous Documents" expands the previous section instead ("Software & Technical Manuals").
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Yes - algo: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
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GitHub's linguist library can be used to identify the programming language of a single file (edit: or of a whole project): https://github.com/github/linguist#single-file
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Even just a short video of someone using the web interface would be helpful.
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I think you meant to post in this thread instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366063
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See also this similar plot for the UK: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-florence-nightingales...
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Yes: both observability and parameter identifiability assume knowledge of the model structure; system identification includes methods for choosing a model structure for a black-box system. > This is why I never understood why this analys
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I think you might also be confused about the difference between system identification and observability. The problem of constructing a model of a system's dynamics is system identification [0]. A state observer [1] tries to determine t
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I don't really agree - the xkcd cartoon is about physicists naively going from real-world phenomena to mathematical models, without understanding what is important or already known about the problem domain. In his case, a physicist is
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Interesting - I also have a wireless logitech mouse connected to a ubuntu machine that intermittently crashes when going to sleep. It hadn't occurred to me that the crashes might be linked to the mouse.
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This reminds me of the Dual-Disc Polar Printer: https://hackaday.io/project/177633-dual-disc-polar-printer
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This page [1] provides some more information and links to PDFs of several other related documents, including "Apple PSI System — Security Protocol and Analysis" [2] (which has lots more technical details) and some Technical Asses
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> You're going to have a hard time calibrating that without a whole bunch of patches with known reflectance/transmission profiles If you care about accurate color, you do use a card with "whole bunch of patches" of di
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Checkli: https://www.checkli.com/ Process Street: https://www.process.st/ https://checklist.com/ also lets you create "checklist templates"
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Fermat's Library is an annotation platform, so there are annotations on the linked version - click on the circles (or rectangles, depending on whether the side panel is open) on either side of the document to see the annotations.
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Simon Williamson's Dogsheep project [1] also provides importers to ingest data from various sources into SQLite databases. [1]: https://dogsheep.github.io/
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After a user clicks on the streamgraph, the bottom-left displays information about commits by the corresponding contributor in the corresponding quarter; the contributor name is already a link to their GitHub profiles, but the "changes
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> We can now measure and analyze dimensions of personal and social life that we wouldn’t even have thought to measure a decade or two ago. It was always theoretically possible for us to count our steps, but altogether impractical. Now we

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