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Keep lists of story ideas

Be sure to include both the simple one-shot stories as well as the bigger projects. It may be helpful to split up your lists that way.

Unless you have a super data-centric newsroom, you'll likely be seeing story ideas, or ways of approaching stories, other reporters don't. So you'll want to keep track of them for the right moment.

Storytelling from Space: Tools/Resources

This list of resources is all about acquring and processing aerial imagery. It's generally broken up in three ways: how to go about this in Photoshop/GIMP, using command-line tools, or in GIS software, depending what's most comfortable to you. Often these tools can be used in conjunction with each other.

Acquiring Landsat & MODIS

Web Interface

  • Landsat archive

#NICAR 2015: Twitter Bootstrap Responsive, mobile-first HTML, CSS, JS framework

One of the most supported, popular and feature-filled ways to get started building a website is to use Twitter Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a responsive, mobile-first HTML, CSS, & JS framework. Know what those three terms (responsive, mobile-first and framework) mean? If not, take a moment to look them up.

NICAR 2015 • March 7th • 2:10PM - 3:10PM
http://slides.com/ebigalee/nicar-2015-bootstrap

###What you will need today:

Disable:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

Enable:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

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kappuchino / delicious_mates.py
Created March 13, 2022 11:42 — forked from rcillo/delicious_mates.py
delicious_mates.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
delicious_mates.py
http://www.aiplayground.org/artikel/delicious-mates/
"""
import sys, math, re, time, base64, urllib2
from urlparse import urlparse
from getpass import getpass
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kappuchino / LLM.md
Created March 28, 2023 22:59 — forked from rain-1/LLM.md
LLM Introduction: Learn Language Models

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.