Chris Mendez chrisjmendez

Bruce's iOS Shortcut Catalog

Hello and welcome to my Shortcuts Catalog!

This is a public resource designed to help people get started with Siri Shortcuts and the Shortcuts app.

It’s made up of the Shortcuts Library, a collection of over 125+ shortcuts grouped into folders, and the Action Directory, a documentation of 125+ of the actions in the Shortcuts app used to build shortcuts.

Enjoy!

Concurrency in JavaScript

Javascript is a programming language with a peculiar twist. Its event driven model means that nothing blocks and everything runs concurrently. This is not to be confused with the same type of concurrency as running in parallel on multiple cores. Javascript is single threaded so each program runs on a single core yet every line of code executes without waiting for anything to return. This sounds weird but it's true. If you want to have any type of sequential ordering you can use events, callbacks, or as of late promises.

Using Python 3 + Google Cloud Vision API's OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents

Just a quickie test in Python 3 (using Requests) to see if Google Cloud Vision can be used to effectively OCR a scanned data table and preserve its structure, in the way that products such as ABBYY FineReader can OCR an image and provide Excel-ready output.

The short answer: No. While Cloud Vision provides bounding polygon coordinates in its output, it doesn't provide it at the word or region level, which would be needed to then calculate the data delimiters.

On the other hand, the OCR quality is pretty good, if you just need to identify text anywhere in an image, without regards to its physical coordinates. I've included two examples:

####### 1. A low-resolution photo of road signs

Stream URL's for Classical KUSC and Classical KDFC

New URL Pattern:

http://[bit rate].[encoder format].[file format].[call letters].live

	#!/usr/bin/env xcrun swift -O

	/*
	gen.swift is a direct port of cfdrake's helloevolve.py from Python 2.7 to Swift 3
	-------------------- https://gist.github.com/cfdrake/973505 ---------------------
	gen.swift implements a genetic algorithm that starts with a base
	population of randomly generated strings, iterates over a certain number of
	generations while implementing 'natural selection', and prints out the most fit
	string.
	The parameters of the simulation can be changed by modifying one of the many

	# This file is: ~/.ssh/config

	# You may have other (non-CodeCommit) SSH credentials stored in this
	# config file – in addition to the CodeCommit settings shown below.

	# NOTE: Make sure to run [ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config ] after creating this file!

	# Credentials for Account1
	Host awscc-account1 # 'awscc-account1' is a name you pick
	Hostname git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com # This points to CodeCommit in the 'US East' region

	NSDate *date = [NSDate date];

	NSCalendar *utcCalendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian];
	utcCalendar.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"UTC"];

	unsigned ymdhmsUnitFlags = NSCalendarUnitYear \| NSCalendarUnitMonth \| NSCalendarUnitDay\| NSCalendarUnitHour \| NSCalendarUnitMinute \| NSCalendarUnitSecond;

	NSDateComponents *utcDateComponents = [utcCalendar components:ymdhmsUnitFlags fromDate:date];

	// Create string of form "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"

	import Foundation

	/// An abstract class that makes building simple asynchronous operations easy.
	/// Subclasses must implement `execute()` to perform any work and call
	/// `finish()` when they are done. All `NSOperation` work will be handled
	/// automatically.
	open class AsynchronousOperation: Operation {

	// MARK: - Properties

	var scales = {
	'natural major': [0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12],
	'ionian': [0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12],
	'major': [0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12],
	'chromatic': [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12],
	'spanish 8 tone': [0,1,3,4,5,6,8,10,12],
	'flamenco': [0,1,3,4,5,7,8,10,12],
	'symmetrical': [0,1,3,4,6,7,9,10,12],
	'inverted diminished': [0,1,3,4,6,7,9,10,12],
	'diminished': [0,2,3,5,6,8,9,11,12],