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Donald Trump July FEC report: Trump paid dearly to boost fundraising - POLITICO. Mobile eCommerce: Product Details UX Planet. Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds US news The Guardian. Trump’s Empire: a Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties - The New York Times. Sources of Crime Data: Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System National Institute of Justice. The FBI UCR Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of over 18,000 city,.

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Threading in Rails | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Facetting subjects accross hetereogenous vocabularies? Notes on future directions of Library Systems →. August 28, 2007. 14 Nov 2011. This is all very outdated, written for Rails 2.1. Please see my updated post on multi-threaded ActiveRecord access. Update 11 Feb 09. Further findings on concurrency in Rails, and why I no longer have confidence in the approach outlined here, can be found here. You can’t thread in Rails? But you may or may not want to. To work in ActiveRecord and in Rails. Contrary to ...

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Of ISBN reliability, and the importance of metadata | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Unicode normalization in ruby 2.2. On approaches to Bridging the Gap in access to licensed resources →. Of ISBN reliability, and the importance of metadata. April 20, 2015. I write a lot of software that tries to match bibliographic records from one system to another, to try and identify availability of a desired item in various systems. You could instead be coming from EBSCOHost, or even WorldCat, or any other third party platform that uses OpenURL to hand-off a citation to a particular institution.

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Benchmarking ruby Unicode normalization alternatives | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Cloud service for human language detection. Questionable quality of some online educational programs →. Benchmarking ruby Unicode normalization alternatives. November 19, 2013. If you ever write code to deal with non-ascii unicode text, you probably need to deal with unicode normalization. If you ever need to compare two non-ascii unicode strings for equality, you definitely need to deal with unicode normalization. If you don’t understand why. I recommend reading the first chapter or three of UAX#15.

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Factors to prioritize (IT?) projects in an academic library | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Ethical code for software engineering professionals? Preservation in a war zone →. Factors to prioritize (IT? Projects in an academic library. March 4, 2015. Most important: Impact vs. Cost. Is how many (what portion) of your patrons will be effected; and how profound the benefit may be to their research, teaching, learning. May include hardware or software costs, but for most projects we do the primary cost is. You are looking for the projects with the greatest impact at the lowest cost. Are there parti...

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Yahoo Boss spell suggestion API percent encodes | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Austere UI, and tech-challenged users. Actual programmer time →. Yahoo Boss spell suggestion API percent encodes. September 18, 2013. We’ve been using. The Yahoo Boss spell suggestion api to provide spelling suggestions in our discovery interface for some months now. It continues to work pretty well. But I just discovered that the API seems to return suggestions with most punctuation percent-encoded. This isn’t mentioned in the documentation. At all, as far as I can tell. (The docs try to vaguely say.

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You never want to call html_safe in a Rails template | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Ebooks and privacy, the netflixes of ebooks? You never want to call html safe in a Rails template. December 19, 2013. Sometimes when looking at old Rails code, especially code that’s existed since Rails2 days and been upgraded along with Rails, I sometimes see `html safe` called directly in a view template:. Magicfy(foo).html safe %. To illustrate, let’s imagine a helper method `magicfy` that simply wraps it’s argument in a span.magic:. Def magicfy(value) content tag(:span, value, :class = magic) end.

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Preservation in a war zone | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Factors to prioritize (IT? Projects in an academic library. 8220;Streamlining access to Scholarly Resources” →. Preservation in a war zone. March 9, 2015. On the cover of today’s NYTimes (print washington edition). Race in Iraq and Syria to Record and Shield Art Falling to ISIS. By ANNE BARNARD MARCH 8, 2015. 8230;He oversees an informal team of Syrians he has nicknamed the Monuments Men, many of them his former students. They document damage and looting by the Islamic State, pushing for crackdowns o...

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RNNs in Tensorflow, a Practical Guide and Undocumented Features WildML. How to train your #NeuralNetwork for Wine tasting? Autonomous Agents #AI Medium. 62 re Regular expression operations Python 3.5.2 documentation. The Gentlest Introduction to Tensorflow Part 2. Ensembles (3): Gradient Boosting - YouTube. Data Scientist Interview Questions Glassdoor. Part 2 Linear Algebra: An In-Depth Course with a Focus on Applications - YouTube. SigOpt scikit-learn Hyperparameter Optimization Tutorial - YouTube.

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On approaches to Bridging the Gap in access to licensed resources | Bibliographic Wilderness

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Of ISBN reliability, and the importance of metadata. Yahoo YBoss spell suggest API significantly increases pricing →. On approaches to Bridging the Gap in access to licensed resources. May 14, 2015. A previous post I made reviewing the Ithaka report Streamlining access to Scholarly Resources. Got a lot of attention. Thanks! This means we’ve got the “receiving” end taken care of — here’s a book. The Google Scholar Button. In late April Google released a browser plugin for Chrome. This plugin will extract ...