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by dfworks 10mo ago
We were actually considering doing some object detection in a next run. It feels like there could potentially be some town planning applications like finding the distribution of rubbish bins vs litter on the floor
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by dfworks 10mo ago
There are around 50 results for Crystal Palace, Ill have a look through the logs to see what might have gone wrong Sadly no R Soles though (A shoe shop formerly in Chelsea but now online) - however, just searching for profanities does bring
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by dfworks 10mo ago
Hi Author here, This doesnt really answer your question but hopefully gives some insight into our process. The main bottlenecks were breaking the fisheye-style panoramas into different perspectives (so text was more readable), passing it to
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Show HN: Search London StreetView panoramas by text(london.publicinsights.uk)
39 points by dfworks 10mo ago|14 comments
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by dfworks 1y ago
It’s perhaps a bit better now, but back when trip-sharing features were first added to third-party mapping and delivery platforms, there was a real tendency to overshare. Many early implementations generated public URLs with sequential or l
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by dfworks 1y ago
I made this - https://london publicinsights.uk as well as operate a public records aggregator that has indexed, amongst other things, planning applications. I wonder if it could be of use?
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by dfworks 1y ago
I have a London one also if anyone is interested! https://london.publicinsights.uk
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Winning Elections with MAID Data(dfworks.xyz)
1 points by dfworks 2y ago|1 comments
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by dfworks 2y ago
After recently reading several concerning articles about MAID data, I decided to simulate some device activity (because buying it is too expensive!). I then modelled how these fictional devices might vote to demonstrate how harmful/use
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Calibrating a 3D Printed Delta Arm for Screen Interaction(dfworks.xyz)
2 points by dfworks 2y ago|0 comments
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by dfworks 2y ago
If anybody found this interesting and would like some further reading, the paper below employed a similar strategy to analyse inauthentic content/disinformation on Twitter. https://files.casmconsulting.co.uk/message-bas
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by dfworks 2y ago
There was a very recent "bug" in Search where the site: operator stopped working for a little bit and everybody in the OSINT community had a bit of a meltdown - https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/search-alert-go
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by dfworks 2y ago
Yep, British for my sins, as a US soldier once described to me, we are your least worst enemy
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by dfworks 2y ago
Every day is a learning day!
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by dfworks 2y ago
If anyone found the above interesting, I wrote a short article mapping plane activity on FlightRadar's 'blocked' list (i.e FlightRadar had agreed to remove the ADBS data from their dataset following probable legal pressure).
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by dfworks 3y ago
Planning applications in the UK are publicly available and many have architectural drawings/site plans attached with varying degrees of detail. There are millions of applications and each local authority has a different database so it
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by dfworks 3y ago
https://blog.reversepp.com/ for an incredibly niche blog about UK planning application data
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by dfworks 3y ago
https://dfworks.xyz/
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Show HN: ReversePP lets you search UK Planning Application Data nationally(search.reversepp.com)
2 points by dfworks 3y ago|0 comments
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by dfworks 4y ago
As I understand Slough and West London more broadly are a sweet spot for both connectivity to international fibre cables as they come out of the ground and available electricity at a reasonable rate (although they might have saturated that
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by dfworks 4y ago
There was a similar situation in the UK where 'Spider Crab' was renamed 'Cornish King Crab'. As I understand, much of the 'Spider Crab' was exported to Spain but as this became less economically viable post Bre