Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning

Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by hundchenkatze on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:46PM (#24495167)

This is another example of what the GP comment is complaining about. It's not a DIY Alexa. Alexa is the virtual assistant API. This is a DIY Amazon Echo that still relies on the Alexa service.

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Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by sokoloff on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:57PM (#24495302)

As an engineer and a technologist, I agree that you and GP are precisely correct.

If you showed it to and asked a string of randoms off the street, I think way more than half would agree with the "DIY Alexa" label as reasonably communicative description and more useful than a longer but more precise title.

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Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by hundchenkatze on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:22PM (#24495666)

Yeah, that's a good point. It's easy to get caught up in our little tech bubble :)

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