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thampiman

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About thampiman

- Machine Learning Engineer | PhD in Signal Processing - Twitter: @thampiman

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    Ok, who knows how to get them?

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    At Zenimax: "Hey guys. This whole VR is becoming a real thing and we dismissed it along with this Carmack dude. Lets fill a suit against Zuckerberg for ludicrous amount of money, m…

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    How is this news worth upvoting though?

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    This coupled with the Automatic Statistician ( https://www.automaticstatistician.com/index/ ) will help fix a lot of biases and human errors that creep into scientific research.

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    Do you have any stats on youtube usage? Personally I don't use the offline feature very much.

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    I've fixed this by converting the geodetic coordinates to ECEF. See v1.2 release notes here: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder

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    UPDATE: I've just released v1.2 which supports Python 3. For details: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder

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    Good point. I would need to use this distance function instead: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html On it!

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    Thanks for that comment! Good question regarding the license. I'm not too sure about that. I'd appreciate it if someone could shed some light on it. Regarding the version, I've onl…

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    Very cool project. Out of curiosity, how do you test the validity of the addresses?

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    Check out this library for Node https://github.com/tomayac/local-reverse-geocoder

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    That is interesting. I haven't looked at that data set. At the moment, this only looks at cities with a population > 1000 obtained from GeoNames.

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    I should think so. I've tried nominatim/osm data but it took forever to query a large set of coordinates. I was only interested in knowing the nearest city and admin regions 1/2. A…

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    Thanks! I'm the developer of this library and I hope you find it useful.

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