Our Pimelea Nivea is flowering for the first time this year and from above looks like a sky map full of exploding stars.
Sigh... I was so focused on the 1920 gap I didn't even notice that there are some volumes from the 30s and 40s that haven't been included. I feel so stupid... Like 1920 they've been digitised differently and will require a lot more work. At least I have a defined process now, but I see a lot of […]
Visualisation is a great way to find problems in your data. I was processing records from the Tasmanian Post Office Directories the other day when I realised that 1920 was missing from my online, searchable database. Eeek! I've spent the last couple of days fixing this, so if you want to […]
If you're wondering about getting those odd-looking skin spots checked – do it! I had a little sore on my nose that wouldn't heal, and another flaky patch of skin on my cheek – both came back as squamous cell carcinomas. Neither has spread so treatment should be straightforward, but I'm very […]
In 2016 I gathered some Trump speeches and interviews and trained an RNN on them, that being the fashion at the time... At the time he was still coherent and the output, risible. Now? Now the difference is very slim *indeed*. https://electricarchaeology.ca/2016/04/04/rnnt/
500 pages done...
Turns out my searchable version of the Tasmanian Post Office Directories is missing 1920 because the 1920 volume was digitised differently to everything else and didn't get picked up my my processing scripts. Spending the day manually cropping 700+ pages to make it consistent with the other […]