Goal today: Separate the text doc from yesterday into sections. Running into issues with it though. I was hoping I could depend on ALL CAPS and other identifiers to separate sections out. In a few cases, it’s difficult to decipher between section titles and body. In the PDF, I might be able to use italics …
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Day One: Text Wrangling
We are starting with a wholly unusable PDF File (https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240318/WDI39597.PDF). First we need to parse it into usable data. Goal 1: Read and parse the document Goal 2: Extract sections. Read and parse the document What are some readily available open source projects that I can use to parse PDFs into text? Let’s try some …
US Spending Visualizations
This week another Uniparty Omnibus spending bill was passed without much a fuss. I was thinking Speaker Johnson was going to be a force to stand up to the machine and reduce spending. I thought he was going change things. I may have been mistaken. 😞 We need to get inflation under control, its like …
Resisting The Machine
Thoughts from: I Can’t Overstate How Dire This Is | Bret Weinstein I recently watched “Leave the World Behind“. It’s a message, a clear and terrifying message from our adversary. It’s a message about what happens when we resist they/them. When I refer to “they/them”, I’m not referring to the confused millennial non-binary they/them sorts. …
Homeschool web app Work in progress.
Lately I’m building a topics hierarchy. It could otherwise be called categories, or taxonomy, or whatever else, but for some reason, “topics” seems to fit the bill. This is a first run at the UI, basically I need it to add, edit, and remove a nested hierarchy of topics. Only admin users will see this, …
ChatGPT – Scaffolding a Nextcloud Plugin
🤯 I’m continually impressed by ChatGPT. This morning I thought it would be really nice to be able to track my health statistics on Nextcloud, my private cloud that I have running just behind me in my closet. What a cool little project to give to ChatGPT and see how quickly we can get something …
Vosk on-device Speech-to-text
Since I’ve started using GrapheneOS, a deGoogled Android build, I’ve missed several services you typically get from Apple or Google on my device, one of those core services is Speech-to-Text. It helps a lot to speed up note taking, writing text messages, etc. I’ve been using a very crude Vosk keyboard on Android to fill …
ChatGPT for Homeschool Planning.
I’ve been absolutely blown away by ChatGPT. I’m still reeling by the implications of it’s abilities. I’m hoping it only improves from here, as I suspect it will be dumbed down as it starts to impact some high-level professional job positions. There are quite a few ways that we might use ChatGPT to plan for …
Lessons Learned, First Year of Homeschool in Review
Ahh Summer! We are currently on our Summer migration North to Maine, from Florida. Now is a good time to revisit the past year in review. Spoiler alert, it was a huge success. In this short article I’ll cover where we started, what worked, and how we adapted through our first year of homeschooling our …
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One small bet, Learnalot.net
My wife and I have started homeschooling our daughters since the last year. Personally, I’ve been pushing for it long before COVID. But, since that’s become such a concern, we decided to give it a shot and see how it goes. One year in, we’ve all fallen in love with it. I can’t imagine that …