README.md

cool_and_useful_stuff

self-organizing repository for cool and useful stuff relating to programming.

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gems

• Sentimental, decent quality sentiment analysis gem
• Apipie, rails API documentation tool
• Delayed Job, job/task scheduling
• Devise, user management/authentication/permissions/etc

apis

enormous list of APIs

videos

• Predicting a Billboard Music Hit with Shazam Data - Cait O'Riordan
• David Jones, Ben Knight, Bettina Warburg: The Future of Work | Skoll World Forum 2015
• Greetings Fellow Alienated Subject of Late Capitalism

algorithms

• beautiful visualizations of maze generation algorithms

artificial intelligence

• ELIZA - simple AI written in js
• api for extracting tagnames from images
• ConceptNet 5, api to a semantic network of concepts - allows computers to comprehend text written by people. hard to explain, just check it out.
• word camera, converts images into paragraphs

data visualization

• d3.js, javascript library for data visualization

mobile

• cordova, platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

simulations

• cellauto.js, library for cellular automata simulations

inspiration

• /r/dataisbeautiful
• /r/internetisbeautiful

people

• josh hug
• shawn park

animation

• three.js, 3D javascript animation library
• paper.js, 2D javascript animation library
• victor.js, 2D javascript vector maths library
• processing.js, 2D javascript animation library
• create.js, suite of javascript for canvas/animation/audio/asset-loading

front-end, styling

• Performance Focused Pure Css loading animations
• SweetAlert, makes javascript alerts and prompts look really pretty.
• Font Awesome, icons/fonts css toolkit

blog posts

• The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
• The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction

videos

yet to be categorized

• windows 93
• web GL experiments/ACNPL Canvas Playground
• MOTION for the web