I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

Re:I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi an... by 0x0aff374668 on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:13AM (#22402455)

The reason for the negativity is that this demonstrates the "Design by StackOverflow" mentality where the solution is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer and no real domain knowledge. Plus the author didn't even train the neural nets: it's just a LEGO project. I'd higher this person to be a lab intern, but nothing above that. The fact the author couldn't solve it locally and had to invoke the CLOUD is... laughable. This problem has been solved for over two decades on lesser hardware.

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Re:I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi an... by Piskvorrr on Monday February 24, 2020 @07:49AM (#22403569)

TL;DR: reinventing wheels is a good way to learn a lot.

For trying out something in a few hours, of course you don't want to spend hundreds of hours setting it up, by definition. Yes, the result is "just about works, but doesn't scale" - but that's the point of experimenting. Sure, this is a LEGO-style experiment in reinventing the wheel, but exactly for that, an excellent way to start learning about this problem domain: power consumption? Latency? ML basics? Sure. That's hacking at its core - even though the project is rudimentary.

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Re:I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi an... by paganel on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:47AM (#22403900)

> Sure, this is a LEGO-style experiment in reinventing the wheel

If I'm not mistaken Larry Page used to be praised some time ago for building a printer out of LEGO pieces (that may just be an urban legend, I admit I never verified this information).

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