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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 docum…

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 Gordo…

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 arc…

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 reco…

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 usefu…

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.

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 …

Hell is "other people". -- Jean-Paul Sartre

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...)

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.

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 …

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…

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 …

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-effic…

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.

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 churche…

Or click on the little party horn.

Perhaps, "It's been one week since you looked at me..."?

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 withho…

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…

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.