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Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by Ancapistani »

teiferer wrote: post #20
valzevul wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counting rings is easy indeed, but scoring borderline shots without a scoring gauge is not, because the visible bullet hole is often smaller than the bullet itself.

But why would he care about this millimeter precision? His objective is not to participate in the Olympics but to shoot deer. He wants to improve general shooting abilities, not sub-millimeter accuracy. If he now and then counts a ring wrong, then what's the problem? That's what I don't get.

> His objective is not to participate in the Olympics but to shoot deer.

Where do you see that?

The article is about someone in Scotland who took up marksmanship as a hobby.

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by teiferer »

Ancapistani wrote: post #21
teiferer wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why would he care about this millimeter precision? His objective is not to participate in the Olympics but to shoot deer. He wants to improve general shooting abilities, not sub-millimeter accuracy. If he now and then counts a ring wrong, then what's the problem? That's what I don't get.

> His objective is not to participate in the Olympics but to shoot deer. Where do you see that? The article is about someone in Scotland who took up marksmanship as a hobby.

The article literally starts with "I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot"

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by xg15 »

> I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took a bit longer than expected.

Procrastination level: Ultimate

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by saaaaaam »

thisumang wrote: post #23

The title is so bad, can't understand what's it about. Atleast around other topics here.

No, it’s a great title. It was curious enough that I clicked and then I read the whole thing.

It’s unlikely I would have done that if it had been something like “Using computer vision to score rifle shooting cards”.

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by sandworm101 »

aidenn0 wrote: post #19
sandworm101 wrote: post #10

>> .22 bullet is 0.22" across (duh) Um... No. An american 22 can be very slightly smaller. American-invented calibers are measured to the depth of the grooves in a rifled barrel. The rest of the world measures to the flat parts between the grooves. So no, it is not obvious how wide a bullet is. And beware the plural. If someone (usually a salty navy person) says that a gun is "50 calibers" he means something complete…

Won't a fired .22 bullet be sized to the depth of the grooves due to obturation?

It is more complex. A softer bullet can get wider durong firing. And the barrel can expand slight also. This is why caliber invention isnt as simple as just picking a size.

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by rmunn »

teiferer wrote: post #5

Of all the things one can automate in this whole journey - he chose the ring counting on the shooting range? I don't get it. I totally see the programming challenge there, but it's in no substantial way making the journey any easier. Any somewhat working human brain can count this quite quickly and then move on with other things. Really, I don't get it.

Because he kept hitting his head on the low ceiling beams as he walked over to look at his target.

If he had been shooting at an outdoor range, or even an indoor range with a higher ceiling, he probably wouldn't have been pushed to automate the process.

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by krisoft »

Ancapistani wrote: post #21
teiferer wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why would he care about this millimeter precision? His objective is not to participate in the Olympics but to shoot deer. He wants to improve general shooting abilities, not sub-millimeter accuracy. If he now and then counts a ring wrong, then what's the problem? That's what I don't get.

> His objective is not to participate in the Olympics but to shoot deer. Where do you see that? The article is about someone in Scotland who took up marksmanship as a hobby.

> Where do you see that?

There are multiple mentions of him being motivated by wanting to shoot deer for meat. It is a through line via the article.

> The article is about someone in Scotland who took up marksmanship as a hobby.

I wish it were so. With a bit more self awareness the author could have said “initially picked up a rifle to learn to hunt deer, but doing so i learned how targets are scored and become interested in automating that process.” There is nothing wrong with that. But pretending that someone is doing all this coding to get better charcuterie is where it becomes frustrating yak shaving.

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