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by workergnome 2y ago
I know you've said you've looked at off-the shelf tools, but in that did you consider https://www.transkribus.org/ ? It's a tool designed for reading historical, hand-written documentation—gets used a lot in
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by workergnome 2y ago
My father worked with him at CMU and the story he always told (while possibly apocryphal) was that the reason that the ASCII bell character sequence was CRTL-G was because of Gordon.
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by workergnome 3y ago
If you're interested in playing around more with this, it's using a standard called IIIF ( https://iiif.io ) for image access via API. It's used by many museums, libraries, and archives. One of the benefits of this
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by workergnome 5y ago
The Met has made every image they have that's not under copyright accessible under CC0. https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documen... Museums in general have recognized that digital images don&#x
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by workergnome 6y ago
My grandfather spent the last part of his career doing this sort of work—often on classified projects, I'm told. Usually there was an assumption made on the project about the useful working life of any part, and the expected duration
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Animal Crossing Art Generator(experiments.getty.edu)
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by workergnome 7y ago
If there was anything keeping on the internet, it is the fact that I may some day get to read that post. Hopefully some day deep into my retirement.
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by workergnome 9y ago
This, more than anything else, might be the reason that I stop using Uber. I've loved the idea that I can pay a fixed fee, and that I don't have to think about money at all—having to tip, or think about tips, is so much of what I
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by workergnome 9y ago
Hell is "other people". -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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by workergnome 10y ago
No problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2efes525sd9q5yg/1973%20ARPAnet%20P... (I'm assuming that doing this doesn't get my dropbox account suspended for some reason...)
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by workergnome 10y ago
Quite possibly—most likely the PERQ and Three Rivers Computer stuff is the hardest to find, though I don't know how much of it is already out there.
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by workergnome 10y ago
Hi there—original tweeter here. Some context for the picture—my father, Paul, was the business manager for the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon at the time, and is a fabulous record-keeper, so he kept all sorts of interesting
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by workergnome 10y ago
Look into http://www.highcharts.com . Much more high level than D3, does nice charts and graphs. Free for non-commercial, and reasonably cheap for commercial work. The other really useful tool is Tableau Public, if your data isn
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by workergnome 10y ago
We found the same—using OSM data that just had points was problematic, both because of accuracy and because it tended to often be the front door, not the centroid of the object. I believe we limited our model generation to selecting places
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by workergnome 10y ago
On the front end, it's easy——Add a couple lines to a configuration file, make a couple images, and it's done. The difficult part is that the search is not optimized to be RAM-efficient; each city takes between two and ten gigabyte
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by workergnome 10y ago
Sadly, we don't. I don't think there's an API for determining that within Google Maps, and brute-force checking would be...time consuming.
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by workergnome 10y ago
Not Kyle, but another of the team involved in the project. When we built the training model, we used OpenStreetmap data to find locations of ~1,000,000 "things". A thousand churches, a thousand water towers, a thousand playgroun
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by workergnome 11y ago
Or click on the little party horn.
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Make a drawing, send it to the moon(moondrawings.org)
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by workergnome 11y ago
Perhaps, "It's been one week since you looked at me..."?
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by workergnome 12y ago
It might be interesting to look into creating a service for form-letters for various real-estate complaints. I know that previously, I've had to deal with landlords who were withholding my security deposit, or refusing to make repair
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by workergnome 13y ago
What you missed was the twenty years where Pittsburgh turned into Detroit. Losing all of your industry followed by 60% of your population does that do a city. As a Pittsburgher, it's a good city with ambitions to be great, but it too
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by workergnome 15y ago
Yeah—the new Airs don't have Sudden Motion Sensors. Which makes sense, since there's no hard drive to stop, but it breaks all the clever hacks that used the accelerometer.