Author: Rauf Aliev

Under my balcony, a guy in handcuffs is sitting on the ground, having a nice chat with two policemen with flashlights. About a hundred meters away, someone is celebrating a birthday by the pool. They must have gone overboard.

I can’t tear myself away from the lectures by 3Blue1Brown. They have an excellent introduction to neural networks (which is what I watched) and a lot of other stuff I haven’t checked out yet, but you can tell it’s made beautifully and skillfully. They animate their lectures very coolly and can explain complex things simply.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Today after work I played around with OpenCV. I wrote a simple program for identifying chessboard cells. It finds and outlines one of the cells. It knows about the others as well, but for now, it outlines just one.

It doesn’t correct perspective yet, but it manages cells covered by pieces.

In my free time after work, I’m gradually delving into OpenCV. A really cool tool, wonder why I didn’t notice it earlier. It’s a library for working with video and images, and it includes a toolkit which allows you to extract various useful insights from webcams or videos. For instance, detecting moving objects, recognizing text, gestures, faces, etc.

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Over 130 articles already. Entering the third year

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Walking home from work. Studying fireflies. They have no mouths and they don’t eat

Interestingly, so far not a single voice assistant or just a voice recognizer can properly process speech containing words from different languages. They also all have trouble recognizing words that are not in the English dictionary but are present in some limited list (like a phone directory). I still haven’t been able to teach Siri or Google to recognize Russian names spelled in Latin script through transliteration. It seems like a basic function of the phone, yet no, it doesn’t work.

Can anyone explain this? When launching the Facebook/iOS app, it sounds as though an audio track to a video in the feed starts playing, but there are no videos in the feed, plus I disabled autoplay a long time ago. The sound does not always turn on, but it did on the third and fourth tries.

Is this a bug or a feature?

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