Having a well-organized workshop is essential for any serious do-it-yourselfer or professional. Whether you’re working on small projects or big ones, having the right tools in the right place will make your job easier — and safer. Here’s how to organize tools in your workshop. Sort by Category The first step in organizing your workshop is sorting your tools into categories. Ask yourself what kind of projects you’ll be working on in your workshop. Are you a carpenter, a woodworker, a plumber, or a DIYer? Make separate piles of tools for each category, and separate those tools even further if you need to. For example, if you’re a carpenter, you can divide your tools into categories like saws, hammers, and screwdrivers. Create a Tool Storage System Once you’ve sorted your tools into categories, it’s time to create a tool storage system. How you store your tools will depend on the ... Read More
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Department of Homeland SecurityAdvanced Scientific Computing ProgramText Analysis WorkshopMay 25-26, 2005Hilton Alexandria Old TownAlexandria, VA Computer software provides various means of searching, sorting, and navigating through sets of text documents. The terrorist threat challenge is for a computer to sift through a large amount of text data, and provide a human with accurate and relevant potential threat scenarios supported by relevant subsets of documents. There is a vast collection of information captured in human language over the past several centuries. The human ability to process language is relatively slow, perhaps a few hundred pages of information per day. In the current environment a human may be called upon to quickly assess a potential terrorist threat based on thousands of pages of information. These requests are beyond what humans can reasonably do, and therefore limit the quality and effectiveness of decisions made. Computers and software have the capability to rapidly process ... Read More