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Subtitle Synchronization

  https://github.com/smacke/subsync subsync Language-agnostic automatic synchronization of subtitles to video, so that subtitles are aligned to the correct starting point within the video. The implementation for this project was started during HackIllinois 2019, for which it received an Honorable Mention (ranked in the top 5 projects, excluding projects that won company-specific prizes). https://github.com/AlbertoSabater/subtitle-synchronization Automatic Subtitle Synchronization This repo contains all the code needed to perform Automatic Subtitle Synchronization with Neural Networks, from audio and feature extraction to subtitle file synchronization. For further details on how it works visit this post on my blog. Required Python libraries: LibROSA pysrt Keras 2.x and Tensorflow Linux command line tools requiered: FFmpeg

Engineering a Safer World Systems Thinking Applied to Safety

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world Download:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwl3782mc6fcjih/8179.pdf?dl=1 Summary A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety—more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world—based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effect...

Radare Reversing Framework

https://rada.re/r/ Radare is a portable reversing framework that can... Disassemble (and assemble for) many different architectures Debug with local native and remote debuggers (gdb, rap, webui, r2pipe, winedbg, windbg) Run on Linux, *BSD, Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, Solaris and Haiku Perform forensics on filesystems and data carving Be scripted in Python, Javascript, Go and more Support collaborative analysis using the embedded webserver Visualize data structures of several file types Patch programs to uncover new features or fix vulnerabilities Use powerful analysis capabilities to speed up reversing Aid in software exploitation

Modern Robotics Book

http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/index.php/Modern_Robotics This is the home page of the textbook "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control," Kevin M. Lynch and Frank C. Park, Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781107156302 . Purchase the hardback through Amazon or through Cambridge University Press , or check out the free preprint version below. If you find this book useful for a course or self-study, please contact Kevin or Frank and let us know! Modern Robotics is now available as online courses on Coursera. From the foreword: "Frank and Kevin have provided a wonderfully clear and patient explanation of their subject." Roger Brockett , Harvard University " Modern Robotics imparts the most important insights of robotics ... with a clarity that makes it accessible to undergraduate students." Matthew T. Mason , Carnegie Mellon University

Communism sounds fantastic on paper. Why did it fail in reality?

“Communism sounds fantastic on paper. Why did it fail in reality?” Communism is a futuristic concept. It didn’t fail since it never existed in reality. And of course people get mixed up Stalin’s version of socialism with Marx’s theory of communism. There are many misconceptions. Communism, according to Marx, is: Stateless, classless and money-less society (look ma, no taxes!). It will probably have some sort of e-governance . All means of production are publicly owned (modern example: the New York City metro-subway system is publicly owned) Highly efficient and fully automated economy with very few human workers employed. Distribution principle: " from each according to their ability, to each according to their need ", which means unlimited consumption of free goods and no compulsory labor ( post-scarcity economy ). In other words, the “unlimited consumption” means most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so th...