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Google sheep view
- cconcepts 11y agoDeveloped in the Netherlands, yet this is the most Kiwi use of technology I have ever seen...
- yitchelle 11y agoIt is sort of (although a very weak link) validation that there are more sheep in NZ than anywhere else in the world.
- masklinn 11y agoIn 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 Wales independently)
- omh 11y agoIf we consider Wales separately then I think it would beat NZ on density. A quick search suggests 8.9M sheep in Wales[1], around 430s/km^2 , NZ is only about 120s/km^2. Per capita though NZ beats Wales, and probably any other country. [1] http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/sheep-lamb-population-continues-rise-2018803 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/sheep-lamb-popu...
- yitchelle 11y agoI did say a very weak link. :-)
- arfar 11y agoI'm just happy there weren't any jokes about it being a Kiwi dating site.
- cellover 11y agoThis is the perfect intelligence gathering tool for wolves when they understand the Internet!
- 72deluxe 11y agoWhat beautiful scenery.
- paride5745 11y agoDon't tell the Welsh!
- Tharkun 11y agoThe Welshman in me is very excited about this!
- nowprovision 11y agoHoly shit, you know hipsters with their activism desires will eat you alive... It's racist, conferences will be cancelled, 24hr keyboard warrior marathons will be held, Google will be noted as evil... Think, won't someone please think
- rasz_pl 11y agoor New Zealanders
- noondip 11y agoIf you enjoyed these, also be sure to check out Jon Rafman's http://9-eyes.com/ http://9-eyes.com/
- Shengbo 11y agoI have no idea what's going on in most of these photos, but I love it. I wish they had coordinates though.
- sesm 11y agoI'm sure second one is from Russia.
- vive-la-liberte 11y agoSame here. Would like to know where http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maf5ynOadW1qzun8oo1_1280.jpg http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maf5ynOadW1qzun8oo1_1280.j... was taken.
- sesm 11y agoIt's Japanese Macaque, so should be either Japan or a zoo.
- jackgavigan 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigokudani_Monkey_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigokudani_Monkey_Park
- joshschreuder 11y agoThe one of the guy walking on the riverbank that is double exposed seriously creeps me out for some reason. http://41.media.tumblr.com/affd2f5227bdc60af4207b6dcab7cf93/tumblr_mylraaR2eo1qzun8oo1_1280.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/affd2f5227bdc60af4207b6dcab7cf93/...
- neogodless 11y agoWell now this needs to be on both. https://41.media.tumblr.com/7788ddefda0ba2e5f9b688ab243df56f/tumblr_mg1h5fLQXc1qzun8oo1_1280.jpg https://41.media.tumblr.com/7788ddefda0ba2e5f9b688ab243df56f...
- lubos 11y agoWhy would you register a domain name which contains a trademark? Wasted money.
- yAnonymous 11y agoIt cost him a staggering $13.95. He's probably starving right now...
- revx 11y agoYou're getting a lot of downvotes but I agree - I know from experience that google pursues domains that contain "google" hard and fast.
- r3bl 11y agoCould you share with us your experience?
- yAnonymous 11y agoThe problem with AJAX pages is that I keep scrolling just to see how far it goes. 455 entries, not bad.
- Killswitch 11y agoI find myself scrolling just to see if I can get at the horribly placed links and text at the bottom of the page, before the next batch loads in.
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- mintplant 11y agoIs 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.
- blazespin 11y agoYeah, there is a submit link. Definitely an interesting deep learning problem. Search Google Streetview for X.
- codeshaman 11y agoAfter waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 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 ?
- bobm_kite9 11y agoI know exactly what you mean. I am trying to figure out why I do this too. I guess at some level, I expect a dopameine reward for watching a video. And, I guess this also motivates the other 8 million people. Even after I've watched something like this, I'm not entirely sure I've wasted my time. But, I think this does point to some kind of human failing, or inherent human bias, a bit like a propensity for gambling.
- petercooper 11y agoI'd argue that a propensity for gambling is essentially a propensity for risk taking, something that makes us human and commonly leads us to success (and major failures too, but this is the human condition). Many of my own successes have come via merely dicking around or dabbling in things that interested me, so I'm going to chalk it up as a win.
- jacquesm 11y agoRichard Feynman got a Nobel prize out of 'dabbling in things that interested him'. Not everything has to have a purpose right away, good - even great - things can come from activities without direction.
- bobm_kite9 11y agoyes, I see what you mean: gambling is a good trait to have in a population, but it sucks if you're the guy who has to pour all his money into fruit machines.
- S_A_P 11y agoThis is why hacker news is better at 4am...
- futuravenir 11y agoThat was a fun eight seconds.
- Liltof 11y agoI'm a sheep, and I feel really bad about this website. My private life is exposed to anyone, since my face is clearly shown! Why google only masks human faces?
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- 13hours 11y agoSoon to be New Zealand's most popular dating site.
- sscarduzio 11y agoFor a moment I thought this was a clever deep learning demo. But hey, how about making one?
- cocoggu 11y agoA domain name is sheep anyway!
- chatman 11y agoDo they have no respect for the privacy of the sheep?
- amelius 11y agoWhen the iPhone 7 is released, you will be able to clearly see the locations of the Apple stores :)
- vincefutr23 11y agowas this done with machine learning or manual submission?
- vincefutr23 11y agowas this done with machine learning or manual submission?
- huangc10 11y agocame here to see sheep, was not disappointed.
- andrewheekin 11y agothe best part http://www.googlesheepview.com/outtakes http://www.googlesheepview.com/outtakes
- ryan_j_naughton 11y agoThese images seem to be all submitted by people who found them manually. Are there enough images that we could train a neural network to recognize sheep in Google Streetview pictures? Sure, we could also train it on other random sheep pictures, but I'm betting that wouldn't be as good at correctly classifying sheep in Streetview sheep since those pictures will likely contain the sheep from a similar angle, orientation, and size (that isn't similar to the street view pics). Not sure though.