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Introduction

This is a short tutorial showing you how to make use of the ESSENCE APIs using R. Note that you can learn more about the R package's creators, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CTSE), by going to the CTSE website here.

CSTE works to advance public health policy and epidemiologic capacity. We also provide information, education, and developmental support of practicing epidemiologists in a wide range of areas as well as expertise for program and surveillance efforts.

To access the ESSENCE API's documentation you'll need to create a NSSP user profile and log in with that on this page: https://essence.syndromicsurveillance.org/nssp_essence/usersguide/api/documentation.jsp

A note for Pythonistas reading this

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ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 16000 output.wav

# To convert all mp3 files in a directory in Linux:

for f in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 16000 "${f%.mp3}.wav"; done

# Or Windows:

for /r %i in (*) do ffmpeg -i %i -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 16000 %i.wav

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Anonymising PDFs

PDF metadata

Metadata in PDF files can be stored in at least two places:

• the Info Dictionary, a limited set of key/value pairs
• XMP packets, which contain RDF statements expressed as XML

PDF files

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Here's a step-by-step guide for a brand new Mac user to install coreutils using Homebrew and then modify their PATH to use the GNU utilities without the "g" prefix:

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Step-by-Step Guide to Installing coreutils on a Mac

1. Open Terminal:
   • Open Spotlight
     • Method A to open Spotlight: Click on the magnifying glass icon, Spotlight, in the top right corner of your screen.

• Method B to open Spotlight:Or press and hold the command key ⌘ and then press and release the spacebar to bring up Spotlight.)

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\documentclass{article} % For LaTeX2e
\usepackage{iclr2023_conference,times}

% Optional math commands from https://github.com/goodfeli/dlbook_notation.
\input{math_commands.tex}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{graphicx}

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Intro

"Reddit's Markdown" is a bit borked: it doesn't seem to support linebreaks in Markdown tables. Below we outline the main 'variants' of Markdown, including what they were (originally) developed for, and then attempt to determine if we can somehow induce linebreaks into a 'Reddit Markdown' table.

(a) Main Markdown Variants

Markdown has evolved into several variants since its inception by John Gruber in 2004. Below is a table summarizing some of the main Markdown variants, their brief history, why they were developed, and their divergent features:

Variant	Brief History	Why Developed	Divergent Features

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Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts and experience preferred (super rare at this point).

My own notes from a few months back.

Background

• Survey of LLMS
• Self-attention and transformer networks

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Unicode Character Look-Alikes

Original Letter	Look-Alike(s)
a	а ạ ą ä à á ą
c	с ƈ ċ
d	ԁ ɗ
e	е ẹ ė é è
g	ġ
h	һ

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Reviewed Little Snitch list on 13 may 2021

• *.walkme.com: ec.walkme.com, rapi.walkme.com, papi.walkme.com, cdn.walkme.com, playerserver.walkme.com
• *.swiftypecdn.com: github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/1562
• *.hu-production.be/
• *ggpht.com: https://atlas.eff.org//domains/ggpht.com.html

fbs.smoot.apple.com https://eugit.opencloud.lu/MISP/misp-warninglists/commit/d4ca35c25c7431f0696ab4b2289b2901b0c3f4c2