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Not Hotdog App
- dozeone 9y agosik
- DannyBee 9y agoI'm still sad they weren't allowed to release the fully functional bro app that got created.
- nsxwolf 9y agoDoes it detect penises? I don't want to try it myself.
- frozenport 9y agoWhy not?
- mrmondo 9y agoOnly American ones it seems
- throwanem 9y agoIs that a joke, or does circumcision or its absence actually have an effect on the classifier? Or do you refer to some other characteristic? Offhand I can't really think of a more marked difference between American and non-American penises than the relatively high US circumcision rate, but I'm not so much a subject matter expert as just an interested amateur, and perhaps I overlook something here. (If anything, I'd expect the classifier to more reliably call "not hot dog" on a penis that's circumcised, since hot dogs rarely are.)
- kmonsen 9y agoI'm pretty sure he means the app is only available in the US store and not commenting on the shape or size of american "hot-dogs".
- elmigranto 9y agoUS only, welcome to the "global system of interconnected computer networks". Hope Richard's P2P-internet will work better :)
- jaakl 9y agoIt is Not US App in the Not US world
- timanglade 9y agoYup sorry about that, the app is available only in the US (& Canada) due to some legal restrictions we couldn't avoid. FWIW I also worked about on Richard's New Internet concept for this season so I definitely hear ya ;)
- Kiro 9y agoWhat are those legal restrictions? Just curious.
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- ominous 9y agoCan you please enlighten us as to what kind of legal restrictions apply here? It is always interesting to see how these «little» legal details get in the way of running software. Congrats for getting the app out!
- tyingq 9y agoI hear UploadVR loves it and is considering an acquihire.
- bitmapbrother 9y agoJian Yang was demoing the app on a Pixel. Looks like Apple negotiated another exclusivity deal ;)
- malanj 9y agoCraziest thing - it works! Just detected a hotdog (off a photo). Machine learning has really come far, that this can be done for a joke app is really cool.
- timanglade 9y agoHa didn't expect this to end up here. If anyone is interested, I'm working on a blogpost explaining how we built the app in detail… It uses embedded TensorFlow on device (better availability, better speed, better privacy, $0 cost), with a custom neural net inspired by last month's MobileNets paper, built & trained with Keras. It was loads of fun to build :)
- skraelingjar 9y agoI would love to look at the source code for this!
- DonHopkins 9y agoAnd the training set! Mmmmmm!
- asadlionpk 9y agoDamn! I thought it was using GCloud ML API but it felt so fast. The one in the show felt so slow in comparison! Kudos Jian Yang!
- Swizec 9y agoHow does one get this job? This sounds ridiculously fun.
- timanglade 9y agoIt was random, I was already working on the show as what Hollywood calls a (technical) “consultant”: advising on storylines, dialogue, background assets, etc. When this idea popped up, someone suggested we build the app for real. We took a try and ended up building the entire thing in-house with the crew, as opposed to hiring an external agency to do it for us.
- scrollaway 9y agoSounds like you're handling yourself even better than the characters in the show. :) Edit: I guess it's official: The time of XKCD 1425 has passed. https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/ September 2014; Randall undershot that by a bit :)
- avaer 9y agoHm, is this an officially licensed HBO marketing stunt? Or does SeeFood Technologies Inc. actually exist as a corporation? If not, I'm curious what the legal ramifications are of doing business as a corporation that does not exist.
- throwaway76543 9y agoThe term you're looking for is "Fictitious Business Name," or "Trade Name." Generally, the legal ramifications are a requirement to register the name and pay a small fee. In Santa Clara it costs $40 to register a fictitious business name with the county and the registration is good for five years: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rec/Fictitious%20Business%20Names/Pages/Fictitious-Business-Name-Filings.aspx https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rec/Fictitious%20Business%20Nam... It's really not a big deal.
- avaer 9y agoThank you, that's a pleasant surprise! Cheap and painless enough that it makes me want to try my hand at an ARG with fake corporations.
- ryanbertrand 9y agoI thought Apple does not allow DBA entities? Don't you need to have a DUNS number to create an account these days? (It's been two years since I made one)
- iNeal 9y agoI would guess HBO registered SeeFood Technologies Inc. as it definitely looks like an official stunt otherwise it might have been taken down by now. It's not uncommon for them to do this - see http://www.piedpiper.com/ http://www.piedpiper.com/ and http://raviga.com/ http://raviga.com/
- WorldMaker 9y agoAlso: http://hooli.xyz http://hooli.xyz
- alexcnwy 9y agoFor anyone keen to learn more about object detection (and deep learning in general), I just finished working through an excellent free MOOC taught by Jeremy Howard (former chief scientist at Kaggle) - you basically learn how to fine-tune a convolutional neural network with your own data (e.g. hotdog vs not hotdog) in lesson 2! http://course.fast.ai/lessons/lesson2.html http://course.fast.ai/lessons/lesson2.html
- timanglade 9y agoI can't recommend that course enough! I attended it in person and got a lot out of it. Jeremy & Rachel were also enormously kind & helpful outside of class.
- alexcnwy 9y agoAh so jealous! How was part 2?
- davb 9y agoI always find it strange when apps like this are made unavailable in certain countries (in this case, the UK). Video, I understand. From a consumer perspective it's crappy, but I do understand that licensing agreements for video are generally geographically restricted. But an app that goes along with a TV show? I can't see Sky (the UK network broadcasting Silicon Valley and most other HBO shows right now) distributing Not Hotdog. It would be fun to play with it while the novelty is still fresh.
- lhr0909 9y agoI think they just didn't publish to other regions. Give it some time and I believe they will cover more than just US App Store ;)
- an_account 9y agoMy guess is they don't want to put in the lawyer work to figure out if they can. I imagine HBO has to heavily vet things like this, unlike small startups.
- geekme 9y agoWill it be released world wide
- anderscarling 9y agoI second this, world wide release would be nice. It's a shame how many "locale neutral" apps end up walled in on the US app store. Is there any specific reason why this happens, just seems to me like you get worse reach and no benefits? Especially for a marketing stunt like this.
- knd775 9y agoCrypto export restrictions, I believe
- goatherders 9y agoMy faith in the internet is restored. Well done.
- IgorPartola 9y agoI had an idea for an app that would tell you if what you are about to eat is helthful or not. Basically all it has to do is determine the ratio of green to brown color. Obviously it would not really work (purple carrots, spaghetti squash), but would be a nice novelty thing nonetheless.
- jgtrosh 9y agoWhy wasn't it called "Hotdog or Not" ? to avoid copyright infringement ?
- lalalalagrr 9y agoThey own the copyright.
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- dozeone 9y agoMake available in Norway stores please! I want to be able to know what I am eating...
- ziikutv 9y agoDANM! I wanted to start learning NN and write an app after watching the Silicon Valley episode. You beat me to it. Congrats.
- daveloyall 9y agoThis is related to a TV show. Maybe this comment thread could use a link to a video clip of the show. Maybe this comment thread could use a link to a video clip of the app in use, since it doesn't work on most devices.
- gregdoesit 9y agoIs there a reason this is not released globally, but only in the US? I am not on the US App Store, so cannot see this app.
- FilterSweep 9y agoI wonder if it's able to tell the difference between hot dogs and well-shaven, tanned legs.
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- tripzilch 9y agoHail Eris! This app may be very useful to Discordians, because of the Original Snub and the Five Commandmends of the Pentabarf: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/11.php http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/11.php
- ruleabidinguser 9y agoThought a hamburger was a hotdog btw