A micro discovery / rediscover your local area.

My friend dumbed it "Pokemon go but replace the Pokemons with castles and churches :)"

Use the GPS to discover places of interest in your neighbours or anywhere in the world and invites you to do see these places in person and check in and read the page and get a fun quiz.

It works great for me in Scotland, check it out in your country and let me know.

https://www.izeria.com/en

Where you can discover places near you and connect to their history, I have also added some check-in mechanics and quiz to gaming the experience and for to actually go see the place in person.

Think Pokemon go but for Wikipedia places.

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I often find Google Maps too cluttered when I just want to know "what is that building?" or "what happened here?".

I hacked together this little tool to solve that. It acts as a clean interface over the Wikipedia API, showing you relevant articles based on your exact location. I've been using it personally while traveling around the UK and it's surprisingly effective at finding hidden gems.

It's a simple POC right now, but I'm looking to expand it. Let me know if you find it useful or if it breaks for your location!

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What are some of your use case for using LLM ?

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> 1Comparing case rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection. Vaccine effectiveness has been formally estimated from a number of different sources and is summarised on pages 5 to 11 in this report. The case rates in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations are unadjusted crude rates that do not take into account underlying statistical biases in the data and there are likely to be systematic differences between these 2 population groups. For example: • people who are fully vaccinated may be more health conscious and therefore more likely to get tested for COVID-19 and so more likely to be identified as a case (based on the data provided by the NHS Test and Trace) • many of those who were at the head of the queue for vaccination are those at higher risk from COVID-19 due to their age, their occupation, their family circumstances or because of underlying health issues • people who are fully vaccinated and people who are unvaccinated may behave differently, particularly with regard to social interactions and therefore may have differing levels of exposure to COVID-19 • people who have never been vaccinated are more likely to have caught COVID-19 in the weeks or months before the period of the cases covered in the report. This gives them some natural immunity to the virus for a few months which may have contributed to a lower case rate in the past few weeks

Overall at the scale of the city it seems to me ( I don't have any numbers for that ) that consuming on Amazon is not a great deal long term.

I wonder what application could help reduce the impact of the crisis.

I believe the South Korean and China have introduced some apps to mitigate the disease but that comes with some privacy concerns.

https://www.wired.com/story/phones-track-spread-covid19-good-idea/

I wonder if an open source solution could be develop mitigating the privacy concern. I don't have any expertise with this but I'm thinking encryption / blockchain / federate ...

This app / servicer could then be used by countries with less technically advanced countries as the virus spread.

Does anyone know if such project exist or would be interest in starting something like that ?

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I have read many article online on how web developer could deliver high res images etc ... But my question is the following , wouldnt it possible to have better anti aliasing system in ios to properly handle the normal resolution images? At the end of the day the 1 normal res pixel should only had to be replaced by 4 high res pixel of the exact same color. But obviously it is not what is happening here otherwise we would see this blurry effect.

If anyone has any information about this topic I would thrilled to read about it.

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