Scrapy can’t handle Javascript. Therefore I use PhantomJS in Selenium, via GhostDriver, instead. But this is now marked as deprecated (PhantomJS people disagree). Even if it is not, there are some weakness in Selenium+GhostDriver. Most noticeably is that I have no way to tell if the browser is finish rendering...
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A game using Python speech recognition
While trying with the Google AIY voice kit, I developed a math drill game. A
nice try, but the result is not as smooth as what I expected.
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深思快想 瞬間看透事物本質的豐田思考術
稻垣公夫 / 2017
Toyota 對管理學的貢獻包括看板、改善和 Lean management 這些觀念,最近還有A3報告書。但如何把意念濃縮成 A3 卻不容易,這是思考方法之範籌,Toyota稱之為Zoom in zoom out,即是從具體至抽象之間來回。
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Genovese (2001) Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm for Accurate State Estimation of Maneuvering Targets
A very short publication introducing the IMM filter. It describes a system with multiple models, and in each model, there is a state. The model transition is a ergodic Markov chain with probability matrix \(\Pi\), and state transition in each mode is a linear dynamic system. The state transition and...
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How to calculate percentile
Think about it for a short while, anyone can see that there is no definitive way
to define what is a percentile. What is surprising is how many different ways we
can define it.
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