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Re: Search all text in New York City

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Interesting how they censor the word "fuck" like it's going to affect your brain if you read it fully spelled or something

SEO, or family friendly values (maybe both!). Related: no swearing in the first minute of YouTube videos.

Is that a youtube policy? It's so weird.

Re: Search all text in New York City

#103
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Searching "Fool" gives a lot of OCR errors, some of which are due to occlusions: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=fool&p=3 "Surgery of the Fool" is my personal favorite.

Same with "fart," and it's an absolute delight: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=fart

"Fart bird special" is pretty funny, and "staff farting only" might be my favorite. Other good ones: "BECAUSE THE FART NEEDS," "Juice Fart," "WHOLESALE FARTS"

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Tangent, there are these videos on YT of people walking through cities, the ones I like in particular are through Tokyo/Japan. I was thinking it would be cool to build a 3D map from that, it is possible but not my field. I think some companies have done it too. But there is a lot of data on that. Maybe free robot training (walking through a crowd like delivery).

I believe it's a combo of SLAM/photogrammery/VIO but you don't have an IMU so that part would have to be estimated from the video. Maybe the flickering of the lights with the frames probably too fast.

ex. https://youtu.be/ohlzQNCpT7M?si=zH764fDlHqPKyjin&t=537 ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZi2GeEGdvM

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Tangent, there are these videos on YT of people walking through cities, the ones I like in particular are through Tokyo/Japan. I was thinking it would be cool to build a 3D map from that, it is possible but not my field. I think some companies have done it too. But there is a lot of data on that. Maybe free robot training (walking through a crowd like delivery). I believe it's a combo of SLAM/photogrammery/VIO but yo…

There was a guy a long time ago, who did YT videos of the tech markets in Tokyo and it was really surprising some of the best places to get parts for smartphones or robots were completely non-descript buildings in the heart of the city. He specifically went to places that most people wouldn't know about unless you really had great local information.

If someone were to do what you're saying, it would be a huge win for people visiting and being able to find these places. I would love to see this.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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post #105

Tangent, there are these videos on YT of people walking through cities, the ones I like in particular are through Tokyo/Japan. I was thinking it would be cool to build a 3D map from that, it is possible but not my field. I think some companies have done it too. But there is a lot of data on that. Maybe free robot training (walking through a crowd like delivery). I believe it's a combo of SLAM/photogrammery/VIO but yo…

There was a guy a long time ago, who did YT videos of the tech markets in Tokyo and it was really surprising some of the best places to get parts for smartphones or robots were completely non-descript buildings in the heart of the city. He specifically went to places that most people wouldn't know about unless you really had great local information. If someone were to do what you're saying, it would be a huge win for…

You reminded me of Strange Parts who was in China, able to pick up random stuff like an iPhone motherboard from a lady selling it on the street.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Awesome project.

My only suggestion would be to remove duplicates. Many of the items are just the same thing from different angles. Of course, this is a tough technical challenge to solve that most likely cannot rely on location alone.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Surprisingly, sushi is huge in Manhattan and not so much in the outer boroughs. My relative assessment from looking at the heatmap: https://www.alltext.nyc/map?q=sushi&m_lat=40.7313&m_lon=-73....

Also - a huge difference between UES and UWS, with more sushi spots on UES. Maybe its denser?

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