Pull Request #4
Mayan EDMS, WebGazer, Imageio, Habitat-lab with an amazing Indian thali, Sikkim's People and Its Culture
Mayan EDMS / Mayan EDMS
Mayan EDMS is a document management system. Its main purpose is to store, introspect, and categorize files, with a strong emphasis on preserving the contextual and business information of documents. It can also OCR, preview, label, sign, send, and receive thoses files. Other features of interest are its workflow system, role based access control, and REST API.
language: Python
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brownhci / WebGazer
WebGazer.js is an eye tracking library that uses common webcams to infer the eye-gaze locations of web visitors on a page in real time. The eye tracking model it contains self-calibrates by watching web visitors interact with the web page and trains a mapping between the features of the eye and positions on the screen.
language: HTML
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imageio / imageio
Imageio is a Python library that provides an easy interface to read and write a wide range of image data, including animated images, video, volumetric data, and scientific formats. It is cross-platform, runs on Python 3.5+, and is easy to install.
language: Python
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facebookresearch / habitat-lab
Habitat Lab is a modular high-level library for end-to-end development in embodied AI defining embodied AI tasks (e.g. navigation, instruction following, question answering), configuring embodied agents (physical form, sensors, capabilities), training these agents (via imitation or reinforcement learning, or no learning at all as in classical SLAM), and benchmarking their performance on the defined tasks using standard metrics.
language: Python
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A little about India, the food, the people and the culture.
The Food
The Indian Thali!!!
Thali refers to the metal plate that a thali meal may be served on.
The idea behind a thali is to offer all the 6 different flavours of sweet, salt, bitter, sour, astringent and spicy on one single plate (technically the last two are actually forms of chemesthesis rather than true flavours). According to Indian food custom, a proper meal should be a perfect balance of all these six flavours. Restaurants typically offer a choice of vegetarian or meat-based thalis. Vegetarian thalis are very typical and commonplace in Tamil Nadu canteens (and South India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Mauritius, Fiji, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia except Vietnam and the Philippines in general), and are a popular lunch choice.
The People & Culture
About Sikkim’s People and its Culture
The people of Sikkim are very warm, friendly and sweet. They celebrate even the small festivals with equal love and devotion. Traditional music and dance forms an important of the local festival and celebration in Sikkim. People of various communities live together in Sikkim still maintaining a unique identity of there traditional religion. There are various other languages spoken in Sikkim like Hindi and English apart from traditional Sikkimese language.
The culture of any place is often depicted through its cuisine, people, religion, language, art & crafts, music and dance. In Sikkim, you will find a perfect blend of all these attributes to make a distinct culture of its own. Not only this, Sikkim embraces a synthesis of various communities along with their practiced religions. Sikkim culture has also been imbibed from the neighboring countries without compromising on its own individuality.

Mayan and habitat-lab are very interesting finds - thank you for these; will check how they could be used for rapid prototyping