Another amusing example of ad agencies trying to fool people using statistics. ( I get it, kinda part of the job). Pepsi are trying to make their case that their product is preferred to Coke using a blind tasting test. In theory its a good play, but the problem here is, at 55% in a…
I found out about most TV hits from other people, long after they have become hits. The Wire, Breaking Bad, Weeds etc. were well known in the popular lore before I tried their first episodes. Yes, I loved those shows, and I have enjoyed them immensely, but that experience still didn’t come close to the…
Let’s admit it, Twitter was always a ticking time-bomb for most of us. In this age of instant outrage and cancel culture, we are only one tweet away from our personal and professional lives destroyed. What we may have said in the heat of the moment, a drunken “joke” could forever tarnish your image and…
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The following are a couple of the time lapse videos I have made. The making of these videos was fun, using Raspberry Pi and an old DSLR. It brings together the concepts of Photography, Python programming, hardware coding and a bit of electronics, and the end results are magnificent. Have a look. If you are…
This video is part of the Raspberry Pi series, where I walk you through several projects ranging in difficulty from fairly simple to really complex. In this video we are going to repurpose an old DSLR camera and hook it up with our Pi to take fascinating time-lapse videos of our own. The camera I…
This is my foray into Raspberry Pi. As you may know, Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized Linux based computer. It is extremely versatile and powerful machine with tons of use cases. This video just shows the unboxing and setup. This PC is powered by the opensource Raspbian linix Distro and comes with 8…
What is object detection Bounding boxes mAP – Mean Average Precision Prediction Confidence Fast (er) R-CNN, HOG, SSD etc. YOLO is the most recent and most effective Prior to YOLO, object detection systems used classifiers or localizers to perform detection. Essentially, they would take an object from the list of classes, and they make several…
Why are the months September through December misaligned with the numbers they imply? Not many people think about this issue. We have always used the calendar without questioning it, and we have always known September as the ninth month, October as the tenth, November as the Eleventh, and of course December the twelfth. What seems…
Facebook has effectively ushered in the death of encryption. With device-level and at-client snooping to be enabled on Whatsapp, our communications will be only a few keystrokes away for the company. This would mean a government or legal agency could subpoena those comms or bring a warrant to access all of them. What this means…
