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aparrish / understanding-word-vectors.ipynb
Last active November 9, 2024 12:16
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing Electronic Text," a class I teach at ITP. (Python 2.7) Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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@krusynth
krusynth / books.md
Last active June 15, 2021 16:56
A list of useful books to improve your skills

Recommended Books

A list of useful books to improve your skills

Recommendations from others are noted in (parentheses). The rest are my personal recommendations.

Programming

Building your core

  • The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt & Thomas
@krusynth
krusynth / annotator-madison.js
Created January 9, 2014 19:06
Using binding to add parameters to a function
Annotator.Plugin.Madison = function(element, options){
this.options = options;
}
$.extend(Annotator.Plugin.Madison.prototype, new Annotator.Plugin(), {
events: {},
options: {},
pluginInit: function(){
this.annotator.viewer.addField({
load: load_fn.bind(this, user)
@vdavez
vdavez / docx2md.md
Last active June 17, 2024 19:40
Convert a Word Document into MD

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in Two Moves

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

The Solution

As it turns out, there are several open-source tools that allow for conversion between file types. Pandoc is one of them, and it's powerful. In fact, pandoc's website says "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife." But, although pandoc can convert from markdown into .docx, it doesn't work in the other direction.

@travismillerweb
travismillerweb / scroll-shadow.css
Created September 23, 2013 18:57
CSS - Google Scroll Shadow
/*
Gmail/Google Reader Sidebar Scroll Shadows
-------------------------------------------
Neat effect that mimics the scroll shadows that appear in the GOogle sitde bar and visually cues users to scroll up or down depending on their position.
Credit goes to Lea Verou for this awesome find.
Source:
Lea's Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ikye7Qc7Ak
Code Source: http://lea.verou.me/more-css-secrets/#slide9
@konklone
konklone / ssl.rules
Last active October 29, 2024 07:36
nginx TLS / SSL configuration options for konklone.com
# Basically the nginx configuration I use at konklone.com.
# I check it using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=konklone.com
#
# To provide feedback, please tweet at @konklone or email [email protected].
# Comments on gists don't notify the author.
#
# Thanks to WubTheCaptain (https://wubthecaptain.eu) for his help and ciphersuites.
# Thanks to Ilya Grigorik (https://www.igvita.com) for constant inspiration.
server {
@junosuarez
junosuarez / gist:6181848
Created August 8, 2013 05:57
notes from SF Open Legislation Hack Night, 2013.08.07
what's the easiest way to be able to observe areas of change - and proposed change - of machine readable code?
way to model and capture legislative behavior and change management on bodies of legislation as a service.
respect for line numbers, section numbers, section references, range references
don't just model legislation as a living document, but capture the actual bills for amending said legislation
also capture change process for the bills
(basically like working in a feature branch)
@robmiller
robmiller / .gitconfig
Created July 17, 2013 07:52
Some useful Git aliases that I use every day
#
# Working with branches
#
# Get the current branch name (not so useful in itself, but used in
# other aliases)
branch-name = "!git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
# Push the current branch to the remote "origin", and set it to track
# the upstream branch
publish = "!git push -u origin $(git branch-name)"
@robmiller
robmiller / git-cleanup-repo
Last active February 27, 2024 10:09
A script for cleaning up Git repositories; it deletes branches that are fully merged into `origin/master`, prunes obsolete remote tracking branches, and as an added bonus will replicate these changes on the remote.
#!/bin/bash
# git-cleanup-repo
#
# Author: Rob Miller <[email protected]>
# Adapted from the original by Yorick Sijsling
git checkout master &> /dev/null
# Make sure we're working with the most up-to-date version of master.
git fetch
@schmurfy
schmurfy / gist:3199254
Created July 29, 2012 14:33
Install pandoc Mac OS X 10.8
# Install MacTex: http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/mactex-basic.pkg
$ sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/texlive
$ tlmgr update --self
$ tlmgr install ucs
$ tlmgr install etoolbox
# Install pandoc view homebrew