PageSieve
A browser extension for interactive web scraping.
Hi, you have landed on my corner of the web. Within are logs of my various projects, experiements and thoughts on tools. All software focused of course.
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Extracting Structured Data from PDF Files
In this article I will go over the details of a recent project involving extracting data from a PDF Swahili-English dictionary.
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Using A* and Python to Solve a Puzzle
In this article we'll be trying to solve the puzzle game flood using Python. The game is played on a grid of cells that can be of any fixed number of colors.
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Web Scraping on the Shell
Often times there's data on the internet we'd like to get our hands on. In most cases I'd start on a Python script with the usual suspects requests, beautifulsoup4, json or csv. This works well butwhen the task in question only needs to be run once, it would be alot easier to run a few commands on the shell.
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Using a Genetic Algorithm to Guess Arithmetic Equations in Julia
Genetic algorithms try to replicate the mechanisms of biological evolution to solve problems. In this article we'll use a somewhat useless example problem to demonstrate how to design and implement a genetic algorithm in Julia which I have been trying to learn recently.