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Re:How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and... by gopz on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @06:51PM (#12402073)
Yeah, but I'm guessing they cost a lot more than a raspberry pi, they mention these systems in the article
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Re:How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and... by NegativeLatency on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @06:57PM (#12402098)
That's like saying a shovel is better than an excavator because the shovel is cheaper.

In some cases the shovel is better, but you can't effectively compare the two of them.

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Re:How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and... by sangnoir on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @07:28PM (#12402219)
> In some cases the shovel is better, but you can't effectively compare the two of them.

Too late: the thread you are participating in has already made the comparison from the very beginning. It's like an HN article titled "Local Man uses nuclear-heated shovel to clear snow off driveway" where the first comment is about how JCB and CAT offer superior options...

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Re:How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and... by ycombinatorMan on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:27PM (#12402777)
Surely tensor-flow is better than just a shovel?
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Re:How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and... by ajmurmann on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:19PM (#12402904)
I read Tensorflow to be the "nuclear heated" part.
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Re:How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and... by keithnz on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @08:00PM (#12402343)
having worked doing produce sorting ( http://www.compacsort.com/ ) A lot of the cost is the mechanical system. for the very simplest / slow kind of sorting they are doing, computer/vision wise you don't really need too much.
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Re:How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and... by lyime on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @08:48PM (#12402521)
Thats some amazing machinery.
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