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  • Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps #Mapping #GIS #OpenSource

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    Sep 10, 2026

  • AI helps add 10,000 more photos to OldNYC #AI #History #Mapping

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    Mar 8, 2026

  • Working on Hard Problems #Programming #Software #ProblemSolving

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    Oct 9, 2025

  • Python and C++ with pybind11: A Great Combination #Python #Cpp #Programming

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    Sep 11, 2025

  • Boggle Roundup: My Fifteen Minutes of Fame #Gaming #WordGames #Programming

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    Aug 25, 2025

  • After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Board #Boggle #Algorithms #Puzzles

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    Apr 23, 2025

  • Boggle Revisited: Following up on an insight #Programming #Software #Games

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    Apr 10, 2025

  • Boggle Revisited: A Thrilling Insight and the Power of Algorithms #Programming #Algorithms #Games

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    Feb 21, 2025

  • Boggle Revisited: New Ideas in 2025 #Programming #Software #Games

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    Feb 13, 2025

  • Boggle Revisited: Finding the Globally-Optimal 3x4 Boggle Board #Programming #Algorithms #Games

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    Feb 10, 2025

  • Another Decade, Another Webdiff #WebDev #Software #Programming

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    Jun 13, 2024

  • AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol #AI #MachineLearning #Go

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    Mar 15, 2016

  • Extending the Grid to Add 1,000 Photos to OldNYC #Programming #Mapping #DataVisualization

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    Jan 19, 2016

  • My takeaways from NIPS 2015 #NIPS #MachineLearning #AI

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    Dec 12, 2015

  • Dan writes on HammerLab #Programming #Software #Mapping

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    Oct 21, 2015

  • Launched: OldNYC #Programming #Software #Mapping

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    Jun 4, 2015

  • PyCon 2015: Make web development awesome with visual diffing tools #Programming #WebDev #Tools

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    Apr 12, 2015

  • Training an Ocropus OCR model #OCR #MachineLearning #Programming

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    Jan 11, 2015

  • Extracting text from an image using Ocropus #OCR #Programming #OpenSource

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    Jan 9, 2015

  • Finding blocks of text in an image using Python, OpenCV and numpy #Python #OpenCV #ComputerVision

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    Jan 7, 2015

  • Choosing an iOS Podcasting App #iOS #Podcasting #Apps

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    Dec 29, 2014

  • JavaScript String slice, substr, substring: which to use? #JavaScript #Programming #WebDev

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    Nov 17, 2014

  • GitHub integration and Image Diff improvements headline webdiff 0.8 #Programming #Software #OpenSource

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    Nov 7, 2014

  • Life after Google, Six Months In #Career #Tech #PersonalGrowth

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    Oct 31, 2014

  • Fully Migrated to GitHub Pages #Programming #Software #GitHub

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    Oct 23, 2014

  • Facebook (non-)Insights #Programming #Software #Data

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    Oct 13, 2014

  • Filtering JSON with pyjsonselect and jss #Programming #Software #JSON

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    Oct 13, 2014

  • Trying out GitHub Pages #Programming #WebDev #OpenSource

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    Oct 1, 2014