MarkdownSite: Create a website from a git repo in one click

MarkdownSite is a platform for hosting websites.

People who want their websites hosted enter a git url for their repository.

MarkdownSite downloads their repo and turns anything in public/ into a static website hosted at a random subdomain.

Anything MarkdownSite finds in site/ that is an .md file will be rendered as HTML.

Once MarkdownSite downloads and builds the website, it is sent to one or more webservers and accepts traffic from the Internet.

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Introduction to K-Means Clustering

With massive data volumes growing at exponential rates, we need to find scalable methods to process them and find insights. The world of data entered the Zettabyte era several years ago. What’s a Zettabyte? Well, it is enough storage for 30 billion 4K movies, or 60 billion video games, or 7.5 trillion MP3 songs.

Today, the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally is in the order of 100 Zettabytes and just keeps growing.

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NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video

We present a novel framework named NeuralRecon for real-time 3D scene reconstruction from a monocular video. Unlike previous methods that estimate single-view depth maps separately on each key-frame and fuse them later, we propose to directly reconstruct local surfaces represented as sparse TSDF volumes for each video fragment sequentially by a neural network. A learning-based TSDF fusion module based on gated recurrent units is used to guide the network to fuse features from previous fragments. This design allows the network to capture local smoothness prior and global shape prior of 3D surfaces when sequentially reconstructing the surfaces, resulting in accurate, coherent, and real-time surface reconstruction. The experiments on ScanNet and 7-Scenes datasets show that our system outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both accuracy and speed. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first learning-based system that is able to reconstruct dense coherent 3D geometry in real-time.

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ThinkComposer: Create advanced Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Flowcharts, Models and Diagrams

As a professional, student or creative person, you probably work analyzing, creating and exposing entities with complex attributes, relationships and dependencies; struggling to make effective solutions on time, needing to explain and convince an audience; and facing diverse perspectives on different problems.

With ThinkComposer you can apply the power of comprehensive visual documents to get the job done and work better. Your flowcharts, concept maps, models and other kind of diagrams can be much more than just embedded images in text-docs or presentations, they can represent the insights and knowledge of your very specialized domain or environment.

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How to design better APIs

15 language-agnostic, actionable tips on REST API design.

APIs are awesome, but they’re also extremely hard to design. When creating an API from scratch, you need to get many details right. From basic security considerations to using the right HTTP methods, implementing authentication, deciding which requests and responses you should accept and return, … the list goes on.

In this post, I’m trying my best to compress everything I know about what makes a good API. An API, that your consumers will enjoy using. All tips are language-agnostic, so they apply to any framework or technology.

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Amp: The live radio app from Amazon

Amp is launching in limited-access U.S. beta for iOS. Learn how it will enable creators to DJ their own shows for free, with tens of millions of licensed songs.

Amazon just released the limited-access beta version of Amp, a new app that will give you a way to DJ your own live radio shows. Creators can use a catalog of tens of millions of licensed songs from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and a long list of independent music companies, such as Beggars Group, Believe, CD Baby, and PIAS, with more being added every day. Creators can also engage with their community in real time—no subscription, additional hardware, or editing needed.

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Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference

Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, or more recently with external fields (electric or magnetic fields, or laser beams).

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