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Re:Ask HN: Computer Vision Project Ideas? on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:47PM (#28739537)
Sure, or dunk them in a beaker of water. ;)
Re:Ask HN: Computer Vision Project Ideas? on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:27PM (#28739354)
I want to point my phone at a stack of poker chips and get a total of each chip color, e.g. 132 blue chips, 54 red chips, etc. Bonus points if I can then tell the app the value of each color and get the total.

I play cash games every week and it takes the host forever to count people's chips when they want to cash out.

Re:Ask HN: What's your favourite way to relax? on Monday September 20, 2021 @09:23AM (#28593511)
I agree with the others that Flow is part of why grappling is relaxing.

But, the another reason is that it's an amazing stress reliever. After a good grappling session, you will feel incredibly relaxed and calm.

This is the one for me too.

But, as a parent myself, I looked at it from the other end. There are only a few years left of living with my kids. I try to make the most of it every day.

Re:I built my first serverless robot and won $1000 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:23PM (#27910859)
Years ago, I played around with Robocode and genetic programming to "evolve" battle strategies. I was always surprised by how simple the generated winning strategies were. They were always counter intuitive.
Re:I built my first serverless robot and won $1000 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:06PM (#27910623)
When my daughter was in grade 5, I volunteered to teach programming for an afternoon while the teacher could do one-on-ones.

I took Robocode[1], made a basic Robot class that the kids could easily extend, and then taught them just enough logic and syntax so they could have their robots battle their classmates'.

It was a huge success. We had to close the door to the classroom because the kids were so loud, cheering their robots on.

Whenever a kid was called by the teacher to do their one-on-one, they protested "one more minute, I need to improve my robot!"

In September, my daughter starts university in software engineering; mission accomplished! ;)

[1] https://robocode.sourceforge.io/

Re:Ask HN: Anyone built a business with no-code tools? on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:33PM (#27593803)
OkieFoodTrucks.com is a SaaS for event organizers to find/book food trucks, built entirely on no code.

You can read more about how it was built here:.

https://www.foxy.io/blog/how-okiefoodtrucks-is-using-foxy-we...