Topic
computer vision
- Scroll Prize
A group of researchers just won the Scroll Prize, a project to read the ancient Herculaneum papyri, burned and buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Using AI and computer vision techniques they were able to dis…
- Weekend Reading: The Hour of the State, Location AI, and Mapillary Acquired
💬 The Hour of the State or Explosion From Below? Martin Gurri is one of the best minds we have for the current moment. Make sure to subscribe to his essays on the Mercatus Center's "The Bridge." The American people a…
- mapwith.ai
In a conversation yesterday I learned about this project called RapiD, led by Facebook to use computer vision technology to detect features for mapping in OpenStreetMap. They’re working on a fork of the iD editor that…
- Weekend Reading: Universal Laws, Tandem, and Computers That Can See
📚 Universal Laws of the World A list of broad laws that apply to all fields. Thoughtful stuff as always from Morgan Housel: Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. In 1955 histori…
- Weekend Reading: RoboSat, the State of Security, and the Equal Earth Map
🛰 Buildings from Imagery with RoboSat This excellent guide shows how to combine take imagery from OpenAerialMap and buildings from OpenStreetMap, and combine to train a model for automated feature extraction. It uses…
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
This week was Amazon's annual re:Invent conference, where they release n + 10 new products for AWS (where n is the number of products launched at last year's event). It's mind-boggling how many new things they can shi…