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[Video] How to Extract Data Tables from a PDF

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This is a short video on how to extract data tables from PDF documents
using the camelot Python package.

Camelot Project URL: https://pypi.org/project/camelot-py/

Simple example (-p page_number -f table_data_format lattice | stream command) :

  OS> camelot -p 43 -o output_file.csv -f csv lattice report_with_tables.pdf

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[Video] How to Select, Copy, Cut and Paste Data Tables in Vim

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Short video on how to select, copy, cut and paste data tables (columns, rectangular regions) in the popular Vim programming editor.

Use:

CTRL-V to activate the visual block rectangle/column selection mode to select a rectangular region such as a data table.

Copy with y for yank

Position cursor at destination. Use Escape key to enter command mode, press p key to paste.

Cut with d for delete

Position cursor at destination. Use Escape key to enter command mode, press p key to paste.

Vim: https://www.vim.org/

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[Video] How to Select, Copy, Cut and Paste Data Tables in Notepad++

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Short video on how to select, copy, cut and paste data tables (columns, rectangular regions) in the popular MS Windows Notepad++ programming editor.

Use:

ALT-(mouse cursor drag)

or

SHIFT-ALT-ARROW KEYS (no mouse)

to select a rectangular region such as a data table. Copy with CTRL-C, CUT with CTRL-X, and PASTE with CTRL-V

This is a test. DATE             VALUE       (random text)
                1/1/2021         103
                1/2/2021         100
                1/3/2021          99
                1/4/2021         101
all done.

See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1802616/how-to-select-columns-in-editors-atom-notepad-kate-vim-sublime-textpad-et#1802634

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[Video] How to Select, Copy, Cut and Paste Data Tables in Emacs

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HOW TO SELECT, COPY, CUT, AND PASTE DATA TABLES IN EMACS

The Emacs text and code editor has a built in rectangle mode for selecting, copying, pasting, and maniuplating rectangular regions in text since Emacs 24.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html

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[Video] Anti-COVID “Space” Helmet Review

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Short review of the Microclimate AIR anti-COVID “Space” Helmet

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[Video] The Not-So-Secret Romantic Comedy Formula

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, a lighthearted look at romantic comedy movies with many examples you and your significant other might enjoy.

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[Video] How to Fight Big Tech Censorship

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[Video] New Year Advice: Unplug and Calm Down

New Year Advice: Unplug and Calm Down

New Year’s advice to unplug from the 24/7 social media/news virtual reality and calm down. I argue that social media, social psychology tricks, recommendation engines, and state of the art AI are driving a massive, costly and dangerous overreaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and offer some advice to retake your mind from technology run amok.

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References/Credits:

Tristan Harris and the AI Apocalypse

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“How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day” Tristan Harris TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C74amJRp730

Tristan Harris Web Site: https://www.tristanharris.com/

Laurie Santos on Knowing About Cognitive Bias is Not Enough:

Lauria Santos and Tamar Gendler on “Knowing is Half the Battle”: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25436

Nobel Prize Winning Cognitive Bias Expert Falls Prey to Cognitive Bias

Cognitive Bias Expert Daniel Kahneman Placed Too Much Confidence in Underpowered Studies: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-underpowered-studies-nobel-prize-winner-admits-mistakes/

High IQ People are Vulnerable to Cognitive Bias

Does High Intelligence Mean Low Cognitive Bias? https://www.globalcognition.org/intelligence-and-cognitive-bias/

Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence
By Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West, and Maggie E. Toplak
http://keithstanovich.com/Site/Research_on_Reasoning_files/Stanovich_CDPS_2013.pdf

High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities
By Ruth I.Karpinski,
Audrey M.Kinase Kolb, Nicole A.Tetreault, and Thomas B.Borowski
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616303324

Bad News for the Highly Intelligent
Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
By David Z. Hambrick, Madeline Marquardt on December 5, 2017, Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/

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[Video] How to Make a Spy Proof Case for Your Phone

How to Make a Spy Proof Case for Your Phone

Complete demo how to make a spyproof case for your smartphone using aluminum foil, painter’s tape, a ruler, and a pair of scissors. Inexpensive DIY home project.

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Backdoors in widely used hardware?

The Intel Management Engine

“Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can’t audit it)”
by Damien Zammit, June 15, 2016
https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Funded the Core Multitouch Technology in the Apple iPhone
https://qz.com/1669346/mariana-mazzucatos-plan-to-use-governments-to-save-capitalism-from-itself/

“More directly, academics at the University of Delaware, funded by a National Science Foundation and CIA fellowship program, developed multi-touch scrolling and gestures for screens; they created a company called FingerWorks that was bought by Apple in 2005, two years before the iPhone was launched.”

Government Attempts to Ban Strong Encryption and Other Privacy Measures:
https://reason.com/2020/03/09/senators-push-sneaky-anti-privacy-bill/

Will they ban secure cases for smartphones and other devices?

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[Video] This Week in Internet Censorship Episode One

This Week in Internet Censorship Episode One (Oct 7, 2020)

This Week in Internet Censorship Episode 1 (Oct 7, 2020)

A short video report on Internet Censorship. Links to web sites mentioned in the video:

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Questioning Authority Banned by YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8PTRouF5o
Heiko Schoning: https://acu2020.org/english-versions/
Tony Heller NewTube Channel: https://newtube.app/user/TonyHeller
Tony Heller’s Real Climate Science Web Site: https://realclimatescience.com/
Robert F Kennedy Jr and Taylor Winterstein: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/truth-with-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-health-freedom-advocate-taylor-winterstein-how-is-covid-affecting-vaccine-safety-advocacy/

Freedom House “Democracy under Lockdown:” https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/democracy-under-lockdown

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