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Re:Lego Calendar by yzzxy on Friday August 22, 2014 @03:36PM (#8213570)
Although the image recognition software is cool, it's almost surely cheaper to just set up Mechanical Turk HITs, compared to however many programmer-hours were spent on the image recognition.
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Re:Lego Calendar by davtbaum on Friday August 22, 2014 @04:13PM (#8213726)
I'm not sure i agree, I can't imagine it taking more than a solid day of work prototyping this in OpenCV.
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Re:Lego Calendar by yzzxy on Friday August 22, 2014 @08:51PM (#8214603)
Well, I'm not an expert by an means but I think the plumbing would take far more time than the vision itself - hooking up to a calender api, etc. Maybe MT would run into the same issues. But HITs are super cheap, and a single programmer-day in many countries would still buy a ton of HITs at a few cents a pop.
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