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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Idk, pretty sure TinTin is Belgian

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Well.... I guess I've never heard it spoken before lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

By how many different metrics is the u.s. in decline now?

Yes.

I don't know if there is any hope of avoiding the whole fascism thing on our way to collapse but I sure hope so. Ugh this country is so fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's how my grandmother went out. Definitely preferable to many other ways. :( Sorry you had to go through that. Dementia of any kind is horrible.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's a really uncommon word. But hey, you get to be one of today's lucky 10,000.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My favourite is "absolute free speech!!" combined with "if you say something someone doesn't like, they are entitled to punch you"

Anyone who says that is forgetting that punching falls under assault.

Hate speech is far beyond merely "something I don't like". It is advocating for the oppression and even eradication of people based on their very identity.

Hate speech should not be tolerated if we want to live in a society that tolerates the existence of others. (So called "paradox of tolerance" which is really not a paradox when you frame it as I have). We can tolerate the existence of bigoted assholes but prohibit them spreading their bigotry. Otherwise we live in a society that supports intolerance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You might be right now that you mention it. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Agree that other parts of the EM spectrum could enhance the ability of MV to recognize things. Appreciate the insights -- maybe I will be able to use this when I get back to tinkering with MV as a hobbyist.

Of course identifying one object is one level. For a general purpose replacement for humans ability, since that's what the thread is focused (ahem) on, it has to identify tens of thousands of objects.

I need to rethink my opinion a bit. Not only how far general object recognition is but also how one can "cheat" to enable robotic automation.

Tasks that are more limited in scope and variability would be a lot less demanding. For a silly example, let's say we want to automate replacing fuses in cars. We limit it to cars with fuse boxes in the engine bay and we can mark the fuse box with a visual tag the robot can detect. The layout of the fuses per vehicle model could be stored. The code on the fuse box identifies the model. The robot then used actuators to remove the cover and orients itself to the box using more markers and the rest is basically pick and place technology. That's a smaller and easier problem to solve than "fix anything possibly wrong with a car". A similar deal could be done for oil changes.

For general purpose MV object detection, I would have to go check but my guess is that what is possible with state of the art MV is identifying a dozen or maybe even hundreds of objects so I suppose one could do quite a bit with that to automate some jobs. MV is not to my knowledge at a level of general purpose replacement for humans. Yet. Maybe it won't take that much longer.

In ~15 years in the hobbyist space we've gone from recognizing anything of a specified color under some lighting conditions to identifying several specific objects. And without a ton of processing power either. It's pretty damn impressive progress, really. We have security cameras that can identify animals, people, and delivery boxes. I am probably selling short what MV will be able to do in 15 more years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

All great points. I guess I need to think of this topic more from the "what is possible" mindset rather than the "this is too hard" mindset to get a fair assessment of what is coming. All while still framing it in the sense of improving worker efficiency and automating human tasks piecemeal over time.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Somebody let me know when the Artist Formerly Known as Twitter faces any consequences.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

And they're going to get worse and worse.

Alright, enjoy!

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