Omar Ismail omarismail

Option 1: Command-line download extension as zip and extract

extension_id=jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin   # change this ID
curl -L -o "$extension_id.zip" "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&os=mac&arch=x86-64&nacl_arch=x86-64&prod=chromecrx&prodchannel=stable&prodversion=44.0.2403.130&x=id%3D$extension_id%26uc" 
unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip"

Thx to crxviewer for the magic download URL.

Finding a Ruby memory leak using a time analysis

When developing a program in Ruby, you may sometimes encounter a memory leak. For a while now, Ruby has a facility to gather information about what objects are laying around: ObjectSpace.

There are several approaches one can take to debug a leak. This discusses a time-based approach, where a full memory dump is generated every, say, 5 minutes, during a time that the memory leak is showing up. Afterwards, one can look at all the objects, and find out which ones are staying around, causing the

These links no longer work. Springer have pulled the free plug.

Graduate texts in mathematics

duplicates = multiple editions

A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen

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

Interactive Machine Learning

Taught by Brad Knox at the MIT Media Lab in 2014. Course website. Lecture and visiting speaker notes.

Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning by Knox, Cakmak, Kulesza, Amershi, and Lau
A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning by Domingos
Machine Learning that Matters by Wagstaff
Beyond Concise and Colorful: Learning Intelligible Rules by Pazzani et al.
[Designing Games with a Purpose] (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/GWAP_CACM.pdf) by von Ahn and Dabbish
[Human Model Evaluation in Interactive Supervised

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It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

	# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
	# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
	# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

	S3KEY="my aws key"
	S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

	function putS3
	{
	path=$1

	Latency Comparison Numbers
	--------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 0.01 ms
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 0.15 ms

	android.permission.ACCESS_ALL_DOWNLOADS
	android.permission.ACCESS_BLUETOOTH_SHARE
	android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM
	android.permission.ACCESS_CHECKIN_PROPERTIES
	android.permission.ACCESS_CONTENT_PROVIDERS_EXTERNALLY
	android.permission.ACCESS_DOWNLOAD_MANAGER
	android.permission.ACCESS_DOWNLOAD_MANAGER_ADVANCED
	android.permission.ACCESS_DRM_CERTIFICATES
	android.permission.ACCESS_EPHEMERAL_APPS
	android.permission.ACCESS_FM_RADIO