Yes, I love the sound they make and there is something very cool about controlling an analog display with software. I would love to make one, but this seems beyond my DIY skillset. I wish you could buy them for a reasonable price, but I couldn't find anything less than 3K (Vestaboard).
Projects like these are what push me to expand my DIY skillset. (I enjoy making things so much I want everyone to share my passion, not feel DIY is beyond them.)
Sure, the guy has some fancy tools, but what I saw looked like something you could have laser-cut by way of Shapeko (or similar online laser-cutting services). He in fact referenced an acrylic version that would laser up nicely.
I suppose the electronics would be a learning curve but I might just go with the KiCad PCB he provides and go from there. (Curious though about the acrylic version — how it handles the electronics.)
Vinyl cut letters... This is do-able but also points out to me that the author is something of a perfectionist. Someone just getting their feet wet in a split-flap display might start out lettering their flaps with a Sharpie.
As you say, if the fun is in driving an analog display with software you could do a lot worse starting out with matte board, hot glue, a Sharpie and a handful of electronics.
I live in Cincinnati. I don't think gentrification is responsible for the opioid epidemic. I would blame the increase in the supply of opioids and structural changes to the economy. Plenty of places without gentrification (rural Indiana) are being hit even harder.
I'd also disagree that moving back would exacerbate the problem. A higher tax base would help the city to better combat the problem. You could also donate to non-profits or volunteer.
Very cool. I am currently learning Chinese and have found it hard to find movie/tv shows that include the pinyin subtitles. This is so much better with the color coding, formatting and dual translations. Thanks for putting in all the work and sharing.
Thank you for the encouragement! Where are you studying? Are you learning traditional or simplified? Is there anything else I can add to my code to help you?
I'm also learning Mandarin and was wondering if this was possible (for a different show) just the other week! Thanks for the article, will be looking forward to Part 2 and 3. Also, is there an easy way to extract all the frames with unique subtitles?
Once you have the text corresponding to each frame, you can de-dupe it with its neighbors based on Levenshtein distance (can't use exact-match because of recognition errors). I found that for this show subtitles generally hang on-screen for 1-3 seconds, so you wouldn't have to do many comparisons.
I already made a feature to list all the unique words in a movie, sort them by their frequency, and make a study sheet. I also made bash script generator to use ffmpeg to cut the movie to the subtitle time.
All I need to do now is recombine the subtitles based on the words, to make videos with lots of example sentences.
It's much easier to study with a real English translation though, instead of a literal word-for-word transcription. If you could help me get more input data (names of movies or songs, srt files), that would be wonderful!
I checked and it appears there isn't really a loophole. Direct primary care providers are able to combine their offering with insurance and offer it on the ACA exchange, but they are subject to the same requirements of any other insurer. And none seem to be doing this yet:
"H.R. 3590 recognizes DPC and allows DPC Medical Homes to offer coverage in health insurance exchanges in combination with a wraparound insurance policy provided by a qualified health plan (QHP). Working together, the two must satisfy all other essential health benefits requirements under H.R.3590. DPC practices provide all primary care in a monthly fee arrangement. The QHP is used for hospitalization, specialty care and other more costly services. The first DPC offering paired with a QHP in the healthcare marketplace went live in the Washington state exchange in January 2015. There are no DPC practices operating in the federally facilitated exchanges yet."
>The Baumol Effect, in case you didn't know, is the tendency of wage increases that come from increases in productivity to "spill over" into jobs where there have been no productivity increases. In other words, it's trickle-down economics under a fancier name.
Mr. Garret gets the definition of the Baumol Effect more or less right, but then mislabels it as trickle down economics and proceeds to attack that. Here is an example of the Baumol Effect:
As improving technology makes computer scientists more productive they will receive higher salaries in the business world. Meanwhile, computer scientist teachers in academia may not see similar productive gains (they still can only teach X number of students a semester). Nonetheless, universities must increase computer scientist teacher pay to prevent them from leaving academia for the business world.
In the context of PG's essay, he is saying that high pay for entrepreneurs forces companies to pay competitive salaries:
>anyone who could get rich by creating wealth on their own account will have to be paid enough to prevent them from doing it.
If Mr. Garret, or others, disagree with this assertion they should attack it directly. Personally, the logic and direct incentives at work seem self evident to me.
There was a recent Planet Money episode about a company that will shop around for medical care for you and give you a cut of the money that the insurance company saves:
The annual deductible in this study is $3,750. So, as long as a patient hasn't spent over $3,750, they have the incentive to reduce costs. You are correct, after a patient hits their deductible they have no incentive to reduce costs.
