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Re: Google sheep view

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Post by yitchelle »

masklinn wrote: post #4
yitchelle wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is sort of (although a very weak link) validation that there are more sheep in NZ than anywhere else in the world.

In absolute numbers that's not even remotely true. According to FAOSTAT the undisputed top 1 is mainland China (175M) followed by Australia (75M), India (64M), Sudan (52M) and Iran (50M). New Zealand is down to 31M heads and it's been falling pretty much continually since the 1999 uptick to 46M heads. NZ may have the highest number of sheep per capita and highest sheep density (especially since FAOSTAT doesn't list W…

I did say a very weak link. :-)

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by codeshaman »

After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30

The video has 8 million views.

Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ?

Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing better to do than look for photos of sheep on google maps and publish them online.

Scared because a lot more people have nothing better to do than visit that page and look at the photos of sheep somewhere in time and space.. Have we all gone mad ?

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by blazespin »

mintplant wrote: post #15

Is this automated in some way? Comments here seem to be discussing it as if it were, yet I can't find anything to imply that on the site itself.

Yeah, there is a submit link. Definitely an interesting deep learning problem. Search Google Streetview for X.
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