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That was very cool. My Dad who will be 99 in a month, had a video camera as a teenager (his father was a minister in Iowa, and there was basically no money for
by mark_l_watson 6y ago
That was very cool. My Dad who will be 99 in a month, had a video camera as a teenager (his father was a minister in Iowa, and there was basically no money for things unless my Dad worked for it - as a teenager he made nitroglycerine and blew up tree stumps for farmers; a major profit center for him and paid for a photography hobby).
About 7 years ago my Dad digitized all the video he had, including childhood material of his family in Iowa, my brother and I, family friends, etc. He distilled this all down to two 90 minute videos that my Mom narrated. A huge effort but much appreciated.
I have always appreciated search on Google photos. My daughter and son in law lost all their digital photo assets from a crashed computer and unusable backups. It took me about 10 minutes with my cellphone to restore a lot of pictures for them by doing search on Google photos of just first name for each of our grand kids, then daughter, then son in law, then the name of their old dog. That created 5 photo albums that I shared with them and that they downloaded to multiple devices, etc.
Whenever I take a picture as soon as I am home and on wifi my cellphone uploads new pictures to Google, Apple, Microsoft OneDrive photos. I only rarely backup everything to local USB drives.
I would like a custom system like Dale wrote about. I have almost 7 years of deep learning experience, and I am now retired so there is no real excuse except that I have a silly project RecipeGAN where I am trying to generate recipes and someone who used to work for me challenged me to also generate pictures in addition to an ingredient list.
It is an amazing world when people like the article author (Dale) and I can do stuff like this as a hobby. Awesome, really.