/Computer Vision

When I'm Sad My Computer Sends Me Cats

- Andrew Healey tl;dr: "I split the emotions into good vs. bad to get a clearer read of my mood. The overall score swings between -1 (very bad) and 1 (very good). I don't want to be spammed with cats every time I itch my nose and trigger a frame of video that's interpreted as negative so I added a three-second trailing average to look for prolonged periods of negative emotion."

featured in #294


Optimal Peanut Butter And Banana Sandwiches

- Ethan Rosenthal tl;dr: "How do we make optimal peanut butter and banana sandwiches? You take a picture of your banana and bread, pass the image through a deep learning model to locate said items, do some nonlinear curve fitting to the banana, transform to polar coordinates and “slice” the banana along the fitted curve..."

featured in #202