So, one of my old ideas of the automating the contracting of building buildings is starting to seem more of like a good idea. I just read an article on TechCrunch about the Do It For Me (DIFM) company is actually something that is a viable startup idea. However, I believe that with the DIFM model… Continue reading Builder Broker DIFM
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Botball 2015
A bunch of us from GMU were Botball mentors for middle schools in the DC area. I helped out at Fred Lynn middle school with Kevin, David, Joseph and Anna. Our school was big enough that we had two teams that entered the competition. Thanks to David who interpreted the results pdf, last Saturday’s Botball… Continue reading Botball 2015
Automatic Auction Design
Ahh patents… I found a patent from 2001 that basically describes one of my ideas about automating the creation of auctions. They call it automated decision support for auctions. Why would you patent this?! Research sure, but a patent?
Speed up stevedoring
According to Container Tech a 40ft standard shipping container can have a max gross (container + contents) weight of 67,200 lb (or 30481.407 kg or 33.6 tons or an Adult North Pacific Right Whale). So, what is the quickest, easiest, safest and most energy efficient way to move such containers? According to current tech in the container moving industry… Continue reading Speed up stevedoring
Power grid for shipping containers
Shocks in shipping containers that would charge batteries that would allow for gps tracking of all of the containers. Also, when stacked they could essentially distribute the electricity. Harvesting the energy from the force of tons of pressure would be interesting. Also, they could be very safe batteries!! You could use Lightsail storage. Then it would be… Continue reading Power grid for shipping containers
TurboJpeg to get yuyv images
This uses the turboJpeg library to do a decoding of a compressed jpeg to yuyv. TurboJpeg already converts the jpeg image to YUYV which is YUV 4:2:2 which is totally awesome since that is what we want!! Can get libjpeg which comes with turboJpeg here and then do: sudo dpkg -i libjpeg-turbo-official_1.4.1_i386.deb To compile your stuff check… Continue reading TurboJpeg to get yuyv images
Passwords
So yahoo has a new authentication system where it sends you a password to your device. This seems to be less secure than 2-factor authentication, however it certainly is a lot less of a hassle than having to make and change your password. The main issue is of course losing your phone. So, I guess it… Continue reading Passwords
My Attempt
The main issue is that of white on white which I can’t seem to get past other than extreme changes to the color as described in an earlier post. Probably, if that turns out to be a thing that would just be applied if I couldn’t see any posts and only if I believed that… Continue reading My Attempt
Breaking Camouflage
I’ve found two methods for breaking camouflage (from this paper) 1. Multiple Camouflage Breaking by C0-Occurrence and Canny 2. Convexity-based Visual Camouflage Breaking So, I’m starting to hope we really don’t need this… CloudSight doesn’t even work given the images that the Canny paper (1) can deal with. So, CloudSight must not be too cutting… Continue reading Breaking Camouflage
Structural Analysis
The next step would be to look into the structural analysis in opencv and convexity defects… Nevermind…. that is after you have the points do you do this. I need the points. It might be useful for identifying hands or fingers, but don’t need it for goal posts.