Do they claim it's packed solid all the way through?
I assume there's a really big ink bomb in the center.
The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
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#23Re Dot Counter, cool work, but charging me $3 to download an image with dots on it is just silly.
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#24Here's the go-to for counting stuff in pictures of lots of stuff: https://countthings.com/ This would probably be a hard case for it! But would be cool to see how well it works.
Uh... in-app purchases for $24 for a 24-hour license? $80 pay-per-count? The AI marketing images... Ugh.
I get that they're selling to industry, not consumers. They also seem to be offering some pretty strong guarantees regarding accuracy. Nevertheless that pricing is bananas. An uncountable number of bananas.
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#25Here's the go-to for counting stuff in pictures of lots of stuff: https://countthings.com/ This would probably be a hard case for it! But would be cool to see how well it works.
Uh... in-app purchases for $24 for a 24-hour license? $80 pay-per-count? The AI marketing images... Ugh.
Counting is very time-consuming, important to get right, and easy to get wrong. I expect quite a few businesses are happy to pay that for fast, accurate counting.
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#26Re Dot Counter, cool work, but charging me $3 to download an image with dots on it is just silly.
still cheaper than https://countthings.com/
Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
#27counting things are a huge intellectual blind spot. For some reason, when people hear a figure, they accept it as gospel.
sums, averages, population, budgets, spending, rates.
Counting things is time consuming and error prone. Ask a casino. You can have 3 people count something and come to a different figure off by a few percent.
Seriously if someone says there's $1m in there, who is going to second guess? Thankfully this guy did.
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#30Do they claim it's packed solid all the way through?
not explicitly, but the implication is strong. otherwise the cube would be almost any size
Just for fun, the maximum sized cube you could make with a single layer of them facing flat and then entirely hollow on the inside would be about 41 meters or so on a side. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=sqrt%28%28area+of+a+uni...