I've played around with Prolog on and off for 7 years. Still a novice. It's one of those languages that forces your mind to grow in new directions.
It's difficult to make a case for it. The declarative paradigm is nice, but compared to other languages you're only saving a couple for-loops. I think its benefit comes from expressiveness for problems where clpfd can be applied. I once built an internal tool with Python and SWI Prolog that combined user input with CLPFD to configure test accounts in a consistent and useful way. Users could provide partial constraints, and the system would fill in the rest. Again, the ease of clpfd is great.
I've had some fun generating Prolog facts/databases with LLMs and it's something I want to explore more.
Do you have any details on the equivalent Postman change? How long ago did Postman force users to create an account? I found this github issue, but I'm not sure if it's what everyone keeps referencing.
This is great! I often request records but have never come up with a great use case!
Under Florida public record law, source code produced by state employees is, in very narrow circumstances, a non-exempt public record (the code can't process sensitive data, etc.). I'm considering a future endeavor where I periodically request the code to such projects until the I.T. department decides it's worth the effort to open source it.
I like to think this is a step towards consolidating publicly funded code and reducing duplicate effort. Ahh, imagine making a pull request to your city's website! But I'm getting ahead of myself...
Interesting - any idea what the other circumstance are? Is there a statute for this? Have you considered requesting some specific source code and publishing it yourself? Might make sense to start small here.
I have a lot of experience in making public records requests and would be happy to help.
I get a kick out of pinpointing the exact location of photos or paintings. A couple of communities exists for this:
* Geoguessr (I don't participate in this one much, street view is pretty limiting)
* The Dish's "View from My Window" archive. A now defunct blog series where readers would submit photos from their window. Very difficult. Users often pinpoint the exact window from which the photo was taken.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/
* SkyScraperCity's Guess the City contest. A daily contest to guess the city. Also this is a precious internet 2.0 forum.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/
* North Korea enthusiasts pinpointing the exact location of Kim Jung Un in official DPRK photos.
* r/whereisthis helps Reddit users locate photos, also allows content just for fun.
* r/PictureGame a more open contest, not necessarily a geolocation task.
Hey there, I'm the founder of a small travel app (www.r3d.city) that is essentially a virtual geocaching/treasure hunt platform. We're just about to come out of beta, and one of the new features is seeded historical photos; e.g. heritage sites in the 1920s. We're putting a lot of work into geotagging these photos directly onto the capture location, you might find it interesting. The idea is that as you walk around some historical location, you can view images of that location from N years ago, from the exact point of view (or near enough) where that photo was taken.
What kind of tools do you generally use? I’m assuming a search engine to identify particular landmarks/stores/etc, and personal knowledge, but what else?
I heard of people looking at the position of stars (on night photos) and the sun to guess the latitude.
There was a story during the 2016 US election campaign where someone had a webcam pointed at a flag for some of the parties, and some folks managed to find the location by observing the stars and drove there and changed the flag, or something like that.
I've used VimWiki for a couple years now. I use the most basic features (Enter, Backspace). The ability to instantly jump to the wiki is the most useful (Leader W W). My wiki is just a folder in my Dropbox so I can get to it on almost any computer.
When I started, VimWiki syntax was better supported than markdown. I've seen lots of markdown related pull requests come through, so maybe that's changed.
I use VimWiki for:
* Life goals (stretch and short term). I use it almost as a centering tool.
* Poetry
* Passages from books
* Book summaries (that I write)
* Lecture/Speech notes
* Notes on misc. items I want to explore
* Ideas for future science fiction short stories
Last summer I wrote a simple Awk script to extract VimWiki style definitions (Term::Definition) into TSV's for importing into Anki. I was frustrated that I couldn't fully automate this process without modifying Anki. Maybe someone else has figured this out?
https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/compare/master...baka...