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A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the most important reason to reduce consumption is due to everything being carefully curated. Actual issues from a particular fruit company like the butterfly keyboard was cause of getting flagged, you weren't allowed to talk about it. Similar problems happen to this day.

Mac fans being rabid Mac apologists isn't something leaving HN is going to change.

This doesn't come from fanboys, this comes from dictators.

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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Wow, this is such a simple application of ML and it is incredibly valuable. On their website, they charge $100/month per device or $1000/year per device [0] and I bet they're making a killing. [0] https://countthings.com/en/

There's no ML here. This is a decades old software technology being packaged as a phone app.

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

#123

Wow, this is such a simple application of ML and it is incredibly valuable. On their website, they charge $100/month per device or $1000/year per device [0] and I bet they're making a killing. [0] https://countthings.com/en/

I wish I could get a bead on how useful ML is. Hackernews makes me think it’s all hype.

ML needs data engineering like electrical devices need electrical infrastructure (i.e. generators, transmission lines, transformers, last mile lines).

It turns out companies have wildly different maturities and proficiencies with these precursors, in addition to simple company ages. Many from having under-invested in actual (not consulting BS) technology transformation and skilling for decades.

Consequently, ML is ridiculous to consider and doomed to failure for company A. While company B can toss a simple model at their well-architected data systems and get immediate ROI.

This is underappreciated, because VPs and consultants are not typically in the business of saying "Our systems are out of date and have poor hygiene, and we can't do this new thing because of that."

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

#124

Wow, this is such a simple application of ML and it is incredibly valuable. On their website, they charge $100/month per device or $1000/year per device [0] and I bet they're making a killing. [0] https://countthings.com/en/

I wish I could get a bead on how useful ML is. Hackernews makes me think it’s all hype.

There's no ML here. This is a decades old software technology being packaged as a phone app.

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mac fans being rabid Mac apologists isn't something leaving HN is going to change.

This doesn't come from fanboys, this comes from dictators.

Users flag content on HN for dubious, political reasons all the time. Why would this need to be a conspiracy, rather than simply a vocal minority?

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't come from fanboys, this comes from dictators.

Users flag content on HN for dubious, political reasons all the time. Why would this need to be a conspiracy, rather than simply a vocal minority?

Because the dictator will personally respond

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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post #44

> All good apps have already been created. There is no room for innovation. > Hold my beer: > I made an app that counts. Honestly, the simplicity of the idea is amazing.

The "counting" is not the hard part of the app. The productionazion, templates, UI, marketing is the hard part.

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish I could get a bead on how useful ML is. Hackernews makes me think it’s all hype.

I don't know about others, but because a lot of IT news comes to me from American medias, I _always_ consider it hype. The reason is cultural: american can't seem to do without superlatives. They didn't eat good carrots yesterday, there were AMAZING carrots. They don't introduce me to their friends, but to their VERY BEST friends. They are always EXCITED to do X and SO something about Y. The result is that none of th…

> The reason is cultural: american can't seem to do without superlatives. They didn't eat good carrots yesterday, there were AMAZING carrots. They don't introduce me to their friends, but to their VERY BEST friends. They are always EXCITED to do X and SO something about Y.

It's INCREDIBLY annoying.

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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Okay, I'm not sure why people use software to do the work that hardware has solved decades ago. Like, I know that pearls come in various shapes, sizes, and weights but they're discrete objects. I would have assumed a simple machine similar to an egg counter would've already been on patent for such uses just for pearls. I mean the ML use case is still neat but I always feel that people always grab computers for the wrong reasons for tasks that aren't that novel. Just my two cents.

Re: A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

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Everyone here is amazed at the ML applications.

You need to know that the underlying technology is really basic and old. 15 years ago, I used a free library (blob counter) to build a VB.net application that counted and "sexed" fruit flies. The app as presented in this website is really similar. No rocket science going on here.

Move along, please.

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