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Re: Not Hotdog App

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Ha didn't expect this to end up here. If anyone is interested, I'm working on a blogpost explaining how we built the app in detail… It uses embedded TensorFlow on device (better availability, better speed, better privacy, $0 cost), with a custom neural net inspired by last month's MobileNets paper, built & trained with Keras. It was loads of fun to build :)

Is there a reason you didn't release on Android? The app was even demoed on a Pixel.

It was written in Objective C?

Re: Not Hotdog App

#22

Ha didn't expect this to end up here. If anyone is interested, I'm working on a blogpost explaining how we built the app in detail… It uses embedded TensorFlow on device (better availability, better speed, better privacy, $0 cost), with a custom neural net inspired by last month's MobileNets paper, built & trained with Keras. It was loads of fun to build :)

How large is the training set / how did you get a sufficient amount of hot dog pics for a custom model, especially since you did not have a class of naive Stanford CS students at your disposal?

About 150k total images, 3k of which were hotdogs. The results are far from perfect (there's ton of subtle — or hilarious — ways to trick the app) but it was better than using a pre-trained model or doing transfer learning, accuracy-wise (honestly it was even better than using Cloud APIs). As for the difficulty in preparing the training set, I'll just say I definitely empathize with Dinesh and Jian Yang’s feelings in episode 4 :D

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US only, welcome to the "global system of interconnected computer networks". Hope Richard's P2P-internet will work better :)

Yup sorry about that, the app is available only in the US (& Canada) due to some legal restrictions we couldn't avoid. FWIW I also worked about on Richard's New Internet concept for this season so I definitely hear ya ;)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How large is the training set / how did you get a sufficient amount of hot dog pics for a custom model, especially since you did not have a class of naive Stanford CS students at your disposal?

About 150k total images, 3k of which were hotdogs. The results are far from perfect (there's ton of subtle — or hilarious — ways to trick the app) but it was better than using a pre-trained model or doing transfer learning, accuracy-wise (honestly it was even better than using Cloud APIs). As for the difficulty in preparing the training set, I'll just say I definitely empathize with Dinesh and Jian Yang’s feelings in…

> there's ton of subtle — or hilarious — ways to trick the app

ಠ_ಠ

Re: Not Hotdog App

#25
Hm, is this an officially licensed HBO marketing stunt? Or does SeeFood Technologies Inc. actually exist as a corporation?

If not, I'm curious what the legal ramifications are of doing business as a corporation that does not exist.

Re: Not Hotdog App

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason you didn't release on Android? The app was even demoed on a Pixel.

It was written in Objective C?

It's actually written in React Native with a fair bit of C++ (TensorFlow), and some Objective-C++ to glue the two. One cool thing we added on top of React Native was a hack to let us inject new versions of our deep learning model on the fly without going through an App Store review. If you thought injecting JavaScript to change the behavior of your app was cool, you need to try injecting neural nets, it's quite a feeling :D

Re: Not Hotdog App

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post #16

Ha didn't expect this to end up here. If anyone is interested, I'm working on a blogpost explaining how we built the app in detail… It uses embedded TensorFlow on device (better availability, better speed, better privacy, $0 cost), with a custom neural net inspired by last month's MobileNets paper, built & trained with Keras. It was loads of fun to build :)

How does one get this job? This sounds ridiculously fun.

It was random, I was already working on the show as what Hollywood calls a (technical) “consultant”: advising on storylines, dialogue, background assets, etc. When this idea popped up, someone suggested we build the app for real. We took a try and ended up building the entire thing in-house with the crew, as opposed to hiring an external agency to do it for us.

Re: Not Hotdog App

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post #25

Hm, is this an officially licensed HBO marketing stunt? Or does SeeFood Technologies Inc. actually exist as a corporation? If not, I'm curious what the legal ramifications are of doing business as a corporation that does not exist.

The term you're looking for is "Fictitious Business Name," or "Trade Name."

Generally, the legal ramifications are a requirement to register the name and pay a small fee. In Santa Clara it costs $40 to register a fictitious business name with the county and the registration is good for five years: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rec/Fictitious%20Business%20Nam...

It's really not a big deal.

Re: Not Hotdog App

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post #25

Hm, is this an officially licensed HBO marketing stunt? Or does SeeFood Technologies Inc. actually exist as a corporation? If not, I'm curious what the legal ramifications are of doing business as a corporation that does not exist.

I would guess HBO registered SeeFood Technologies Inc. as it definitely looks like an official stunt otherwise it might have been taken down by now. It's not uncommon for them to do this - see http://www.piedpiper.com/ and http://raviga.com/
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