Ever since reading this Economist article many years ago I’ve been interested in the actual cost of home ownership vs renting, as opposed to the the “rent money is dead money” argument. Some time ago I built a model to evaluate scenarios for myself. The model can be accessed here:...

Made a quick and dirty fork of YOLACT with minor changes. Added --inverse_mask’ option. This adds an extra output file with just the mask data. Compiled/run on WSL2 The choice of YOLCAT was based on this article: https://medium.com/@anno-ai/evaluating-segmentation-methods-for-single-objects-e773f025b5e0 Below is an example script to convert a folder of images. This...

There’s been a buzz about ChatGPT on the tech web recently, with some claiming to be outsourcing their (boilerplate dominated cargo cult?) coding to it. With any new tool it’s interesting to try a corner case, and a real world problem. I’ve been playing around with embedded Rust, so it...

C++ VCD Tracer on GitHub: https://github.com/nakane1chome/cpp-vcd-tracer. The library will be used for analysing simulation output and concurrent software. VCD is a simple trace log format for logic simulation tools such as Verilog and VHDL simulators. It’s output is designed to be viewed in a waveform viewer such as GTKWave and...

Merge two PDFs scanned from a double sided print, front.pdf and reverse.pdf. The reverse.pdf side is scanned in the reverse order to the front. Extract images from multiple PDFs. The Poppler toolset provides pdfimages. mkdir -p images/front mkdir -p images/reverse pdfimages -p -all front.pdf images/front/ pdfimages -p -all reverse.pdf images/reverse/...