I have yet to see an app support trigonometry. Is recognizing graphs too hard?
All I can think of is that xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1425/
PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator
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#12I have yet to see an app support trigonometry. Is recognizing graphs too hard?
That would be a fun project. If you can digitize the graph reliably, you can then take the discrete Fourier transform of the data, apply some denoising/thresholding to extract the main components. This would tell you if you're looking at sin(x), cos(x), cos^2(x), etc. If you have a training set, you could maybe start picking out more complex functions like abs(x), 1/x, etc.
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#13Reminded me of "The Lenwoloppali Differential Equation Scanner" from The Big Bang Theory http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lenwoloppali_Differe...
My first thought as well :)
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#14They pitched at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday. Here's the video http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/20/microblink-launches-photoma...
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#15this was one of the coolest things i've seen recently. Lots of interesting stuff going on in the OCR space. A buddy of mine has an app that translates chinese and japanese to english in realtime using the camera. http://www.waygoapp.com/
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#16Man, I wish I had this (and cellphones) in high school. Would have made cheating so much easier!
Other than that, what's the use? I'm struggling to think of any other time in my life where I have seen nicely typeset equations ending in "= ?"...
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#18Reminded me of "The Lenwoloppali Differential Equation Scanner" from The Big Bang Theory http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lenwoloppali_Differe...
Bazinga!
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#19Yeah, if people were not already lame enough to try to understand maths in a right way.
btw, suite of similar apps will follow in chemistry and physics now
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#20I have yet to see an app support trigonometry. Is recognizing graphs too hard?
That would be a fun project. If you can digitize the graph reliably, you can then take the discrete Fourier transform of the data, apply some denoising/thresholding to extract the main components. This would tell you if you're looking at sin(x), cos(x), cos^2(x), etc. If you have a training set, you could maybe start picking out more complex functions like abs(x), 1/x, etc.
I am referring to problems like this
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/799790/simplest-know...
I don't think it's easy.