In Republican Win, Supreme Court Retains G.O.P. District in New York

In an emergency ruling, the justices preserved the district of a Republican congresswoman, despite a lower-court ruling that it illegally diluted the power of minority voters.

South Korea allows Google to export map data after years of frustration over Google Maps

South Korea’s government says it will allow Google to export detailed mapping data of the country to overseas servers under certain security requirements.
GitHub

GA-FDP/imas_composer

IMAS Composer provides a clean, declarative API for mapping DIII-D diagnostic and analysis data (stored in MDSplus) to standardized IMAS v3.41.0 data structures (IDS - Interface Data Structures). It ...
IEEE

Leveraging Text Signed Distance Function Map for Boundary-Aware Guidance in Scene Text Segmentation

Abstract: Scene text segmentation is to predict pixel-wise text regions from an image, enabling in-image text editing or removal. One of the primary challenges is to remove noises including non-text ...
GitHub

cyterat/deepstate-map-data

If your application or tool does not support gzip-compressed GeoJSON files, below are several different ways I personally used to access/unzip the data. import geopandas as gpd from io import StringIO ...
IEEE

Static Type Inference for Foreign Functions of Python

Abstract: Static type inference is an effective way to maintain the safety of programs written in a dynamically typed language. However, foreign functions implemented in another programming language ...