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My favorite (in terms of dark humor, if we’re honest) is YOLO, one of the more interesting deep learning object detectors. [1] It is the exact opposite of yours

My favorite (in terms of dark humor, if we’re honest) is YOLO, one of the more interesting deep learning object detectors. [1] It is the exact opposite of yours in every way. The code is brilliant however. Even the papers are snarky. [2] [1] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/commits/master https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/commits/master [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02767.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02767.pdf

jplayer01 7y ago
> But maybe a better question is: “What are we going to do with these detectors now that we have them?” A lot of the people doing this research are at Google and Facebook.I guess at least we know the technology is in good hands and definitely won’t be used to harvest your personal information and sell it to.... wait, you’re saying that’s exactly what it will be used for?? Oh. > Well the other people heavily funding vision research are the military and they’ve never done anything horrible like killing lots of people with new technology oh wait..... > The author is funded by the Office of Naval Research and Google. He's being funded for this. This is fantastic. https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf This is the kind of guy I'd love to hang out with.
- magashna 7y ago
  That resume is something else.
  - na85 7y ago
    Bronies creep me way the fuck out.
    - russh 7y ago
      Thats swell, we don't think about you at all.
  - woodrowbarlow 7y ago
    i'm all for adding an artistic flare to set your resume apart from others... but that's a bold move, cotton.
    - ISO-morphism 7y ago
      It's not about trying to catch attention, it's saying "I'm so good that even though this is totally unprofessional you're still going to want me"
      - magashna 7y ago
        ...you're going to want me...kept away from others due to HR cringing at my presence.
        AceJohnny2 7y ago
        You're not filtering him out of the hiring pool, he's filtering you. ;)
        passiveincomelg 7y ago
        The real WTF is: Apparently there is a place called "Unalaska" in Alaska!
        reaperducer 7y ago
        My understanding is that the in the local language "Alaska" means "Peninsula," and "Unalaska" means "Near the peninsula."
        badsectoracula 7y ago
        Yeah, my own resume isn't (or wasn't, it has been years since i updated it) that flair-y, but it does have a sidebar with screenshots of stuff i worked on (with my face doing a weird look at the top) and is in mostly prose style with bold text for each of the projects i worked on (bold helps to scan for stuff, at least that was the idea). I've been told a few times (by friends) that this isn't how resumes are supposed to look like but my line of thinking is that if you are so stuck up that you want a specific format for a resume, then you're most likely too stuck up for me to want to work with you :-P.
lobo_tuerto 7y ago
I really like his licensing model, specially the META license: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/blob/master/LICENSE.meta https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/blob/master/LICENSE.meta
SamBam 7y ago
I was reading it and kind of interested, and thought this line was funny: > I have a lot of hope that most of the people using computer vision are just doing happy, good stuff with it, like [...] tracking their cat as it wanders around their house And then suddenly realized I've wanted to do exactly that for a long time. Well... specifically install a camera that can detect my cat on the counter (and not my hands doing stuff) and sound an alarm/puff air to get him off. Could this work for that? I think it could! I know my winter project...
- balabaster 7y ago
  I love how he just randomly carries on his own internal dialog in his writing as if he really just doesn't give a fuck who's reading it. Totally brilliant!
- camochameleon 7y ago
  On the topic of cats vs automation, I'd recommend reading this post [1] describing the arms race created by the writer's cat attempting to break into an automated feeding machine. HN discussion here [2] [1] http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023 http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904
  - Bartweiss 7y ago
    There are few tech stories I enjoy more than the back-and-forth of breaking and improving a thing. A story where one side of the conflict is a cat means this might be my new favorite!
  - SamBam 7y ago
    We had an automated feeder with two chambers, each held down by a rotating, ticking timer switch. You rotate the switch to, say, 12 hours in the future, and 12 hours later the slot lines up and the lid pops over. After many months, my cat learned to stand on top of the lid and use both paws to rotate the switch forward until the lid popped open. This blew my mind. The switch was separated from the lid. I could imagine the cat attacking the lid itself, but this separate mechanism, requiring a motion completely distinct from the motion of an opening lid, and requiring patience without instantaneous reward or even evidence that it was going to work.... I just couldn't believe it.
balabaster 7y ago
Number 2 might be the greatest technical paper I've ever read. Brilliant :D
a_e_k 7y ago
> 4. Things We Tried That Didn’t Work I love seeing a section like this when reviewing a paper. I really wish more authors would include one. (Goodness knows I've chased down enough dead-ends in some of my own research efforts.)
krick 7y ago
Yeah, it's fun, but, seriously, git log is messy AF. I wouldn't appreciate it a bit, if somebody would do that to a project I'm involved in. What's funny, though, the paper (written in a pretty much the same "fuck you" manner) is much more readable and informative than the average. Which says a lot about science papers out there.

jplayer01 7y ago

> But maybe a better question is: “What are we going to do with these detectors now that we have them?” A lot of the people doing this research are at Google and Facebook.I guess at least we know the technology is in good hands and definitely won’t be used to harvest your personal information and sell it to.... wait, you’re saying that’s exactly what it will be used for?? Oh. > Well the other people heavily funding vision research are the military and they’ve never done anything horrible like killing lots of people with new technology oh wait..... > The author is funded by the Office of Naval Research and Google. He's being funded for this. This is fantastic. https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf This is the kind of guy I'd love to hang out with.

magashna 7y ago
That resume is something else.
- na85 7y ago
  Bronies creep me way the fuck out.
  - russh 7y ago
    Thats swell, we don't think about you at all.
- woodrowbarlow 7y ago
  i'm all for adding an artistic flare to set your resume apart from others... but that's a bold move, cotton.
  - ISO-morphism 7y ago
    It's not about trying to catch attention, it's saying "I'm so good that even though this is totally unprofessional you're still going to want me"
    - magashna 7y ago
      ...you're going to want me...kept away from others due to HR cringing at my presence.
      - AceJohnny2 7y ago
        You're not filtering him out of the hiring pool, he's filtering you. ;)
        passiveincomelg 7y ago
        The real WTF is: Apparently there is a place called "Unalaska" in Alaska!
        reaperducer 7y ago
        My understanding is that the in the local language "Alaska" means "Peninsula," and "Unalaska" means "Near the peninsula."
        badsectoracula 7y ago
        Yeah, my own resume isn't (or wasn't, it has been years since i updated it) that flair-y, but it does have a sidebar with screenshots of stuff i worked on (with my face doing a weird look at the top) and is in mostly prose style with bold text for each of the projects i worked on (bold helps to scan for stuff, at least that was the idea). I've been told a few times (by friends) that this isn't how resumes are supposed to look like but my line of thinking is that if you are so stuck up that you want a specific format for a resume, then you're most likely too stuck up for me to want to work with you :-P.

lobo_tuerto 7y ago

I really like his licensing model, specially the META license: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/blob/master/LICENSE.meta https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/blob/master/LICENSE.meta

SamBam 7y ago

I was reading it and kind of interested, and thought this line was funny: > I have a lot of hope that most of the people using computer vision are just doing happy, good stuff with it, like [...] tracking their cat as it wanders around their house And then suddenly realized I've wanted to do exactly that for a long time. Well... specifically install a camera that can detect my cat on the counter (and not my hands doing stuff) and sound an alarm/puff air to get him off. Could this work for that? I think it could! I know my winter project...

balabaster 7y ago
I love how he just randomly carries on his own internal dialog in his writing as if he really just doesn't give a fuck who's reading it. Totally brilliant!
camochameleon 7y ago
On the topic of cats vs automation, I'd recommend reading this post [1] describing the arms race created by the writer's cat attempting to break into an automated feeding machine. HN discussion here [2] [1] http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023 http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904
- Bartweiss 7y ago
  There are few tech stories I enjoy more than the back-and-forth of breaking and improving a thing. A story where one side of the conflict is a cat means this might be my new favorite!
- SamBam 7y ago
  We had an automated feeder with two chambers, each held down by a rotating, ticking timer switch. You rotate the switch to, say, 12 hours in the future, and 12 hours later the slot lines up and the lid pops over. After many months, my cat learned to stand on top of the lid and use both paws to rotate the switch forward until the lid popped open. This blew my mind. The switch was separated from the lid. I could imagine the cat attacking the lid itself, but this separate mechanism, requiring a motion completely distinct from the motion of an opening lid, and requiring patience without instantaneous reward or even evidence that it was going to work.... I just couldn't believe it.

balabaster 7y ago

Number 2 might be the greatest technical paper I've ever read. Brilliant :D

a_e_k 7y ago

> 4. Things We Tried That Didn’t Work I love seeing a section like this when reviewing a paper. I really wish more authors would include one. (Goodness knows I've chased down enough dead-ends in some of my own research efforts.)

krick 7y ago

Yeah, it's fun, but, seriously, git log is messy AF. I wouldn't appreciate it a bit, if somebody would do that to a project I'm involved in. What's funny, though, the paper (written in a pretty much the same "fuck you" manner) is much more readable and informative than the average. Which says a lot about science papers out there.