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Photography #166
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-24
Please TRU Write With Me, I’m All Shiny And New – CogDogBlogUntil now, the editor did not automatically embed media from sites like YouTube, vimeo, twitter, SoundCloud from a plain URL — the user had to trust it would happen. MathigonAn interactive math resource worth looking at. h/t Clint Lalonde Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-17
TextWorld – Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft TextWorld is an open-source, extensible engine that both generates and simulates text games. You can use it to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn skills such as language understanding and grounding, combined with sequential decision making. A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K | Ars […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-10
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs – The AtlanticThey’ll clone a teacher’s shared Google document, then chat in the comments, so it appears to the casual viewer that they’re just making notes on the lesson plan. If a teacher approaches to take a closer look, they can click the Resolve button, and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-03
Scammed at 40,000 Feet: Opaque Market Costs the Jet-Setting Rich – Bloomberg ” . . . according to My Sky, a company whose software helps scrutinize and manage private-jet costs” mattomildenberger on Twitter: “Something I’ve been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons. Bear with me for a small thread on why our […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-02-24
Man who went viral for buying $540 of Girl Scout cookies arrested in DEA drug bust – CNN//the drug bust thing seems secondary to this line . . . . A picture of McGowan posing with the two girls was posted on Facebook by the girls’ cookie manager and shared thousands of times. The Hobbit […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-02-17
DEAR – Community ProjectThe solution involves the use of an AWS DeepLens device to recognize faces using a local infrence and send only the clips of the faces to S3. A lambda monitoring the S3 bucket will then call Rekognition to get the emotions for each face. The data is then fed to DynamoDB for […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-02-10
Remote Attendance – CHI 2019You can hire a human proxy to bring you into the conference remotely through a wearable tablet and video conferencing software. The image below shows an example human proxy setup. Human proxies represent a lightweight way for you to be present and move throughout the conference venue for meeting other attendees […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-02-03
The Movie CorpusThe Movies Corpus contains 200 million words of data in more than 25,000 movies from the 1930s to the current time. All of the 25,000+ movies are tied in to their IMDB entry, which means that you can create Virtual Corpora using extensive metadata — year, country, rating, genre, etc. The TV CorpusThe […]