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Componica

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About Componica

My background is creating products using using computer vision for more than a decade. I can be reached at 'steve at componica.com'.

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    Comment #42023880

    Location: Iowa City, IA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Chicago, Maine, Vermont, and other areas less affected by future climate change with …

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    Comment #41908992

    You're probably right in terms of the NN research world, but I've been staring at a wall reminiscing for a 1/2 hour and concluded... Neural networks weren’t widely used in the late…

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    Comment #41907908

    My take during that era was neural nets were considered taboo after the second AI winter of the early 90s. For example, I once proposed a start-up to consider a CNN as an alternati…

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    Comment #41905183

    The Yann LeCun paper 'Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition' specified the modern implementation of a convolutional neural network and was published in 1998. Alex…

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    Comment #41768061

    In our area of the rural Midwest, a local AM station made a niche for themselves being the critical go to point of information during tornado, storm, flooding, and derecho warnings…

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    Comment #37283536

    One of our partners is a renowned neuro-ophthalmologist at our local university, and he's always suggested medical applications for our array. However, the combination of low volum…

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    Comment #37283101

    Luxury car prices per array due to development, customization and the type of clientele. We have a mech engineer onsite to adapt the camera arrays to the environment, such as a coc…

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    Comment #37279470

    My three partners and I have be developing and selling multi-camera arrays specifically for eye tracking as well as measuring other physiological features for several years now. Ou…

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    Comment #36963315

    Location: Iowa City, Iowa Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Impossible, due to family. Technologies: Computer Vision (PyTorch / OpenCV), C++, Python, Javascript Résume: https://www.…

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    Comment #29362832

    I think this is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsBIQIBavms

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    Comment #28163056

    Quoting Wikipedia: "As of 2020, the majority of hydrogen (∼95%) is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming of natural gas, partial oxidation of methane, and coal gasification…

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    Comment #28162787

    My ears perk up whenever I hear a "Just think of the Children" argument because after Sandy Hook, I'm pretty certain the US could careless about children. There's a real reason beh…

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    Comment #28162640

    It's most likely a demand by China so that they can create an infrastructure to locate political dissidents. Oh look, a Winnie the Pooh Xi meme ended up in your gallery/inbox. Why …

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    Comment #28162116

    Imagine taking a photo or have in your gallery a photo a dear leader doesn't want to spread. Ten minutes later you heard a knocking at your door. That's what I'm most worried about…

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    Comment #28118100

    Imagine taking a photo or have in your gallery a photo a dear leader doesn't want to spread. Ten minutes later you heard a knocking at your door.

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    Comment #28118090

    Imagine taking a photo or have in your gallery a photo a dear leader doesn't want to spread. Ten minutes later there's a knock at your door.

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    Comment #27344012

    Why can't there just be an option to subscribe for one year and it cancels? No auto-renewals, just a polite reminder it's about to expire. The world is filled with roach-motel dark…

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    Comment #25786533

    It like other neural network research was ignored because neural networks were considered a dead-end at the time. In the early 2000s I recreated his LeNet-5 implementation, and no …

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    Comment #24983124

    Definitely not drowning in $variables, he's 40 something.

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    Comment #24983024

    Looking at https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF The code that he writes is a blend of languages. The arrow operators -> is indicative of C/C++ but C/C++ doesn't use nil or function. It's li…

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    Comment #24603597

    We discovered, after accidentally having twins and bumping the kids count to 3, a typical sedan cannot physically carry more than two children because you cannot fit 3 or more chil…

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    Comment #20203356

    Running a computer vision consulting shop, that's our way of life. For almost a decade we've developed semi-automated means to make the problem saner, but we have to maintain a net…

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    Comment #19050144

    The F'ing Article