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Dirk Gorissen
Personal blog · dirkgorissen.comaiprogramming
Dirk Gorissen's personal blog at dirkgorissen.com covers ai and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures (2011)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads for posts on spreadsheets: a 2017 post titled 'I was wrong about spreadsheets' and a 2011 post on pycel, a tool for compiling Excel spreadsheets into Python.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal homepage for Dirk Gorissen,background in Self Driving Cars, Robotics, Machine Learning, Software, Drones, Product Management, Social Impact, Embodied AI, Generative AI.
Most-linked posts?
- Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures (2011)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-12
What Hacker News says?
https://dirkgorissen.com/2011/10/19/pycel-compiling-excel-sp...
Comment linking /2011/10/19/pycel-compiling-excel-spreadsheets-to-python-and-making-pretty-pictures/
on “I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)”Submitted Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures (2011) as a story · 88 points
HN discussionFrom the project's About page [0], it seems a fair amount of ML/DL was involved in creating the database. "We developed a program to recognise printers’ ornaments and extract them from the full page images into a new database." "The approach adopted here is a morphological one. A series of morphological operations (e.g. filtering, dilution, erosion, etc) is applied on each image followed by a series of heuristics to…
Comment linking /projects/
on “Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers' Ornaments”Submitted The researcher programmer, a new species? (2012) as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted Landmine or Coke Can: Deep Learning with GPR Data as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Drone: A Flying Object Detector with Caffe, Dronekit, and Zeromq as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where’s Susi? Airborne Orangutan Tracking with Python and React.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where are the engineering hipsters? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where’s Bunga? Tracking Orangutans with Drones, Python, and Gnu-Radio as a story · 1 points
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