You accidentally committed your secret key to version control, or the server got compromised, or you lost control of the secret key for some reason. Using an online service to generate one is a bad idea - nobody else should ever have your secret key. How do you generate a new …
The Force Awakens has a lot of shots that are callbacks to A New Hope - they evoke very particular scenes and shots, if not outright identical. That got me thinking about recycling shots in films. How could that be quantified?
A common task in image processing is finding sets of …
Some time ago, I wrote an interpreter for the language brainfuck. It's nice and all, but I thought, "you know what would really make this great? More inscrutable instructions!" How to extend it, though? It already has such a great feature set. You may remember it from hits such as …
Lens flare is an effect created by light reflecting internally in the lens of a camera. Whether it's good or bad is up to how it's used. Some filmmakers are notorious for this (looking at you, J.J. Abrams).
Inspired by needsmorejpeg, I created an app to take user-uploaded photos …
Update 06/14/16: It appears stats.nba.com has taken down the SportVU logs. However, neilmj has posted logs from the 2015-16 season on github, for games through January 23.
SportVU is a video system made by STATS Inc, used by teams to track movement of players and the …
Obfuscated urls stink. Being able to hover over a link and see where it goes is a tremendous feature of any modern browser. Use unshorten on your command line to see where they go. The project is at github. Put unshorten.py somewhere on your path and make it executable …
I've been experimenting with PLY and was encountering an obscure
error that was surprisingly Google-resistant. I've been building up a language
and a REPL to interpret commands. When trying to parse a statement spanning multiple lines,
I would get an error {TypeError}Can't convert 'type' object to str implicitly.
Debugging …
"Ohio is the only state not to share a letter with the word mackerel" my buddy tells me.
Of course, I need to find out what other words don't share any letters with states. So I start hunting for a large English dictionary. It turns out the Brown corpus, included …
During a Milwaukee Bucks broadcast on February 11, John McGlocklin mentioned something to the effect of "the first team to get to 100 points usually wins." Intuitively, this makes some sense. If you're the first team to a given score, you have the lead at that point. 100 points is …
$ pip install opencv never seems to work quite right. If you get the message
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement opencv
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for opencv
There are a handful of answers strewn across the internet about installing OpenCV's Python bindings, but none …