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2022

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Regexp Preprocessor

Interesting but not for me. I know regexps are arcane and confusing but they are well documented and people know them. I put this in the same bucket as scss and sass and many other helpful pre-processors. Not for me. Of course, you may not know that C++ started out literally as a C pre-processor (called cfront) that would generate C. So... The author says: "Summary of what pomsky is and what it looks like. Pomsky is a language that compiles to regular expressions. It is currently in an alpha stage and will likely change in the next few releases."

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A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover - Research Blog - Twisted Fields community

  • Web site excerpt: Too cool. Let the author speak: "Hello Acorn fans! We recently released a new video, linked below. The rest of this post is an article version of the video for those that want to quickly scroll through the screenshots or prefer to read. If you’re new here, make sure to check out our announcement post where we talk more about the motivations and goals of the project. A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover Hello everyone and welcome to Twisted Fields, our research farm in San Gregorio ..."

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A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover – Research Blog – Twisted Fields community

A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover - Research Blog - Twisted Fields community –Too cool. Let the author speak: "Hello Acorn fans! We recently released a new video, linked below. The rest of this post is an article version of the video for those that want to quickly scroll through the screenshots or prefer to read. If you’re new here, make sure to check out our announcement post where we talk more about the motivations and goals of the project. A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover Hello everyone and welcome to Twisted Fields, our research farm in San Gregorio …"

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What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

  • Web site excerpt: I was in a Barnes and Nobel again after many years. Actually many years before that I would go to a B&N more than once a week. Then between Amazon and terrible inventories at B&N and Kindle and Nook I stopped going. Then a few weeks ago I visited one and it was a revelation. I had a great time browsing books and books and books. Great article:"Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?"

  • Link to site: What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

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What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? –I was in a Barnes and Nobel again after many years. Actually many years before that I would go to a B&N more than once a week. Then between Amazon and terrible inventories at B&N and Kindle and Nook I stopped going. Then a few weeks ago I visited one and it was a revelation. I had a great time browsing books and books and books. Great article:"Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?"

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A Nibble of Geohashes in Go – by Kurt – Get Code

A Nibble of Geohashes in Go - by Kurt - Get Code –This is a really cool algorithm that i never heard of. Also geohashes are not too hard to compute and have very useful and unteresting properties. the concept of a z-order curve is explained. That too is a useful model and concept. The author says: “Latitude and longitude as a locality-preserving string.”

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TSPSIs and How I Write

  • Web site excerpt: Useful advice and framework for structuring your academic or technical writing. Author says: "TL;DR: Writing about writing and having written, and self-referentiality. Complementary musings on AI."

  • Link to site: TSPSIs and How I Write