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@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 25, 2024 02:01
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

@grantslatton
grantslatton / hngen.py
Last active September 27, 2021 11:07
A program that uses Markov chains to generate probabilistic Hacker News titles.
import urllib2
import re
import sys
from collections import defaultdict
from random import random
"""
PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS QUOTED CODE FOR THE SAKE OF daemonology's SERVER, IT IS
NOT MY SERVER AND I FEEL BAD FOR ABUSING IT. JUST GET THE RESULTS OF THE
CRAWL HERE: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nqpsnTtW AND SAVE THEM TO "archive.txt"
@laacz
laacz / gist:4427065
Last active December 10, 2015 11:19
Ivara Svilāna jaungada uzruna katram.

Oriģināls ir pie autora - Ivara Svilāna feisbukā.

Apsēdos un uzrakstīju pats: kādu es gribētu politiķu Jaungada oficiālo uzrunu

Daudzus gadus esmu klausījies valstsvīru svētku uzrunas. Un domājis: „Nu, kādēļ viņi tā?!” Kādēļ tik reti aizrauj tas, ko man saka svētku reizē? Kad gribas kopības sajūtu, iedvesmu un cerību, ka esam labākie. Vai vismaz labāki.

Tad nu šogad brieda doma un beidzot esmu uzrakstījis savu variantu, ko es gribētu, lai man Jaungada uzrunā pasaka kāds valstsvīrs vai valstssieva.

(ok, lai skaidrs - uzreiz teikšu: politisku ambīciju man nav, partijās neesmu, vēlēšanās nestartēju un neplānoju.:) )