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Show HN: High-level web scraping with Screpe(github.com)
1 points by sdrabing 4y ago|0 comments
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by sdrabing 4y ago
I've always thought it was strange that so many people just watch TV for noise. Any love for silence anymore?
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by sdrabing 4y ago
Something about comparing the US to other rich nations rubs me the wrong way when, in my opinion, servicing a country as large as the US is very different from servicing a small island like the UK. The post talks about difference in margins
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by sdrabing 5y ago
Looked into scraping some data from this, here are some URL templates worth mentioning: https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download_image/master_image/POM00... The link above will give you full-sized images, but only for
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by sdrabing 5y ago
Built off of NCBI E-Utilities, this currently only works for citations found on PubMed. I would love to find a way to make this more general, have it work for Google Scholar or the like, but I don't know of any free API access to lar
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Show HN: Find new life science literature with Gref(github.com)
3 points by sdrabing 5y ago|1 comments
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by sdrabing 5y ago
You obviously don't live in a place with harsh winters.
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by sdrabing 5y ago
I love Graphviz, here's a citation graph tool I build with it: https://github.com/shanedrabing/gref
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by sdrabing 5y ago
I was thinking the same thing! I 3D model would be really neat to watch and pick apart.
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by sdrabing 5y ago
Blood Meridian (or The Evening Redness in the West) by Cormac McCarthy. Quickly became my favorite book after reading it a second time. I've never read a book with more effective language.
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by sdrabing 5y ago
This is a tangent, but the "utility monster" scenario only makes sense if the utility gained from an activity remains the same with how many resources are put into it. This doesn't make sense with how people actually work, al
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by sdrabing 5y ago
What about the usage of capitalization?
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by sdrabing 5y ago
I've been a weirdo with my Python code recently, and tend towards a more functional programming style. So, the `operator` module is essential for doing some cools things with maps. For instance, I'm writing a library to simulate t
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by sdrabing 5y ago
I had no idea a patent existed for this type of software, I figured this current program out through trial and error and a couple of iterations. How can a developer protect themselves from publishing patented software? Is there any way of k
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by sdrabing 5y ago
Still working on some bugs, but it's easy to use already.
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Show HN: Create image mosaics with Polyfoto(github.com)
32 points by sdrabing 5y ago|14 comments
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Show HN: Taxopedia: Build taxonomic trees from Wikipedia-scraped data(github.com)
2 points by sdrabing 5y ago|0 comments