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How the Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News(newyorker.com)
184 points by riordan 9y ago|45 comments
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by riordan 9y ago
Have you considered teaching your journalism students Docker first?
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by riordan 9y ago
This is awesome and exactly the kind of thing that can give the OSM Armchair Mappers some very accurate superpowers. It'd be great to see this fed into the OSM Tasking Manager [1] or Maproulette[2] for folks to validate (and then build
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Wsk: how bloomberg graphics does builds(bloomberg.github.io)
4 points by riordan 9y ago|1 comments
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House flippers, not subprime borrowers, triggered '08 financial crash(qz.com)
2 points by riordan 9y ago|0 comments
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The rise of cheating in undergraduate computer science(nytimes.com)
2 points by riordan 9y ago|0 comments
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How Uber uses behavior modification techniques to control its drivers(therideshareguy.com)
1 points by riordan 10y ago|0 comments
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Theonion/crash-docker: this repository will reliably crash docker for mac(github.com)
2 points by riordan 10y ago|0 comments
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by riordan 10y ago
Friends don't let friends use RDF
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by riordan 10y ago
This is such a good post about: a. how the internet archive is building its political archive b. proving to other cultural heritage institutions that they can get their act together and preserve culture today and make it relevant today Ok,
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A New Ball Game: The New Yorker on Sphereo, Kids, and Code(newyorker.com)
1 points by riordan 10y ago|0 comments
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by riordan 11y ago
I hope I'm not alone in saying: BURN. IT. ALL. DOWN.
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A robust framework for evaluating the quality of puns(slifty.com)
4 points by riordan 11y ago|0 comments
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by riordan 11y ago
Totally; on a number of occasions, Al's talked about address-formatting was a big underpinning of this effort. I'd be happy to help out with some of those other regions! I'm pretty excited that this is the first time someone
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Libpostal: international street address parsing in C trained on OpenStreetMap(mapzen.com)
74 points by riordan 11y ago|7 comments
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An open letter about open data to Audi, BMW, and Daimler(mapzen.com)
1 points by riordan 11y ago|0 comments
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by riordan 11y ago
Well this is delightfully terrifying. Neural Networks that can create environments and people on their own.
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by riordan 11y ago
Oh, you mean Car Pools I'll show myself out
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by riordan 11y ago
My bad, we moved the main domain over to search.mapzen.com from pelias.mapzen.com and hadn't updated the documentation for the project background repository! We're super flattered over all the attention and we're listening fo
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Mapzen Search: An open source geocoding api built on open data(mapzen.com)
150 points by riordan 11y ago|12 comments
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Mapzen Search: An open source geocoding api built on open data(mapzen.com)
11 points by riordan 11y ago|0 comments
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by riordan 11y ago
Indeed! Map vectorization is one the things NYPL Labs is actively working on: https://github.com/nypl/map-vectorizer It's designed to work primarily with old fire insurance atlases (e.g. Sanborns) and is a bunch o
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by riordan 11y ago
Yep. Back when I was at NYPL Labs[0], we developed a bit of an obsession with OCR. It turns out that so much of it depends on the context of the documents, original scan quality (unpaper and deskewing be damned), typography, how much handwr
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by riordan 12y ago
Grant, I'm from the team at NYPL working on the Space/Time Directory effort. This is absolutely amazing. We'd love to have you (and everyone here) help out! We've been so surprised at the excitement over the response and
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by riordan 12y ago
For ebooks without images [10Print inspired]: https://github.com/mgiraldo/tenprintcover-p5 For ebooks with images [Gutenberg]: https://github.com/mgiraldo/tenprintcover-p5
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Patient zero: cancer treatment meets big data(esquire.com)
3 points by riordan 13y ago|0 comments
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Found Play - a fiddle for ElasticSearch(found.no)
2 points by riordan 13y ago|0 comments
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Happy 25th anniversary of the Morris Worm(washingtonpost.com)
8 points by riordan 13y ago|0 comments
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by riordan 13y ago
MapPLUTO's footprints aren't for the buildings, but rather the boundaries of the property. It's a big shapefile for each borough. Totally worth exploring. It's got an insanely detailed metadata breakdown that explains a
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by riordan 13y ago
You LITERALLY built that map warper! ^^ this guy ^^ is one of the partners at Topomancy, the crew who envisaged and built our whole historical geospatial stack with our Geospatial Librarian. And the Map Warper/Digitizer is absolutely a

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