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that's uh... quite a name...
by spewilly 8y ago
that's uh... quite a name...
- wukerplank 8y agoI understand it was probably meant tongue in cheek. Still, very unfortunate naming.
- jazoom 8y agoJust be thankful it was this project and not the upcoming face detector mentioned at the bottom of the readme.
- no_identd 8y agoPerhaps he'll call that "Crosshair".
- briandear 8y agoWhy? It’s actually a pretty accurate name given what the library does: identifies things — “targets.” It feels like people have gotten way too sensitive these days. It’s either hyper-political correctness, pontification over “microaggressions” or just generally turning every single thing into some kind of conspiracy of capitalism. It’s exhausting to keep up with everything about which to be outraged or offended. Everyone is supposed to be so serious all the time, especially in the computer community. What ever happened to not taking ourselves so damned seriously all the time? It wasn’t long ago that Thoughtbot changed the name of FactoryGirl to FactoryBot because apparently the name of a ruby factory library was potentially offensive. Everything seems to require trigger warnings these days — including an image recognition library aptly named Sniper. It seems like liberal white men are leading the charge to out do each other as to how offended they are about the most trivial things. This community used to be fun, now it just seems perpetually on the verge of busting into tears at the slightest hint of something not perfectly saccharine and sterile. We are making mountains out of molehills.
- _nothing 8y agoSpeaking of pontification and making mountains out of molehills, your response currently has more text than all the other replies combined. No one here is "offended" by the name and you're the only one who seems "triggered", somehow connecting the reaction to liberal white men being offended by trivialities. People are merely considering the implications of the name, which is a mature and reasonable thing to do. You're free to argue for its benignity and many of us would agree with you, but when you get up on a soapbox against "political correctness" (which has nothing to do with this), you're going to get a lot of eye rolls.
- ivrrimum 8y agoWell.. technically it could be used for “sniping”. The name is not wrong
- erk__ 8y agoWell his other project is called SSH
- jazoom 8y agoHa. I thought you meant he was the creator of THE "SSH". Nope. It's just another machine learning library.
- m12k 8y agoI guess it's a reference to how the algorithm zooms in on a smaller region of the image before picking out an object.
- codeulike 8y agoIt's a really really bad name for an object detection system
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- superflyguy 8y agoWhy? Let's be honest, the main use for most of this new ai tech is going to be military.
- hutzlibu 8y agoWhy? Cars, household-robots, etc. all need to get around as well.
- 089723645897236 8y agoSometimes you just gotta aim at the head.
- tabtab 8y agoRe: "Let's be honest, the main use...going to be military." While perhaps true, usually one finds a friendlier name regardless, in order to hide or reduce the perception of association with war. It's why we have a "Dept. of Defense" instead of a "Dept. of Offense" or "Dept. of War". I'm not necessarily condoning such a practice, merely making an observation of product and project naming practices.
- tridentlead 8y agoWe used to have a Department or War
- mmjaa 8y agoYou still do, its just given itself a more palatable name..
- ferongr 8y agoIt's not named babyseekingbrutalkiller9000, meh.
- tabtab 8y agoDarnit, you guessed my password ;-)
- _pastel 8y agoIt's an acronym: Scale Normalization for Image Pyramids with Efficient Resampling.
- tabtab 8y agoSo up next is "Bi-Linear Object Oriented Detection"?