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thampimanon The 'Grammar Vigilante' of Bristol [video]

it's :)

thampimanon New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess

Ok, who knows how to get them?

thampimanon Facebook’s Virtual Reality Foray Derided as ‘Fanciful Story’

At Zenimax: "Hey guys. This whole VR is becoming a real thing and we dismissed it along with this Carmack dude. Lets fill a suit against Zuckerberg for ludicrous amount of money, maybe we can get couple millions for free via settlement."

thampimanon HTTPS on NYTimes.com

How is this news worth upvoting though?

thampimanon A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors

This coupled with the Automatic Statistician (https://www.automaticstatistician.com/index/) will help fix a lot of biases and human errors that creep into scientific research.

thampimanon YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

Do you have any stats on youtube usage? Personally I don't use the offline feature very much.

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

I've fixed this by converting the geodetic coordinates to ECEF. See v1.2 release notes here: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

UPDATE: I've just released v1.2 which supports Python 3. For details: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

Thanks!

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

Good point. I would need to use this distance function instead: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

On it!

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

Thanks for that comment!

Good question regarding the license. I'm not too sure about that. I'd appreciate it if someone could shed some light on it.

Regarding the version, I've only tested it on python2. I should add that in the README. Thanks!

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

Very cool project. Out of curiosity, how do you test the validity of the addresses?

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

Check out this library for Node https://github.com/tomayac/local-reverse-geocoder

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

That is interesting. I haven't looked at that data set. At the moment, this only looks at cities with a population > 1000 obtained from GeoNames.

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

I should think so. I've tried nominatim/osm data but it took forever to query a large set of coordinates. I was only interested in knowing the nearest city and admin regions 1/2. And this library is really fast... ~20s to lookup 10M coordinates on my MBP. If you'd however like to know the full address, then this is maybe not a good idea.

thampimanon A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python

Thanks! I'm the developer of this library and I hope you find it useful.

thampimanon Why engineers make great CEOs

Marc Andreessen at SS '11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9phm2ae0Ss&feature=youtu.be...

"The engineer who can become an entrepreneur, who can then become a CEO... there's something magic about that formula"