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I can’t wrap my head around how that hat drops in a straight line. Between the propeller and any wind, how is that hat not all over the place?
by butterfi 2y ago
I can’t wrap my head around how that hat drops in a straight line. Between the propeller and any wind, how is that hat not all over the place?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- riwsky 2y agoThat’s because you aren’t supposed to wrap your head around a hat, you’re supposed to wrap the hat around your head.
- OkGoDoIt 2y agoIf you watch the video, it actually falls several sidewalk tiles away and he has to go pick it up. From the text of the blog, I had assumed he was using AI to actually land it directly on a person’s head, which would’ve been crazy impressive.
- civilized 2y agoNot your mistake, he does his best to imply that the hats are dropping on heads. He's got a future in marketing.
- surfingdino 2y ago> He's got a future in marketing. ... of AI
- dauertewigkeit 2y agoThe whole blog post is genius from a marketing perspective.
- laeri 2y agoAlso the use of the words "dropshipping" and "windowshopping"
- throwaway290 2y agoAnd "AI" for OpenCV
- topherclay 2y agoOpenCV was not the "AI" here, the "AI" was a computer vision model trained at the roboflow website that he mentioned multiple times and that he used in the line commented with "# Directly pass the frames to the Roboflow model".
- samstave 2y ago[dead]
- 6510 2y agoAh right, a product with AI that doesn't work.
- KennyBlanken 2y agoI mean, the site is pretty blatant viral marketing for both his drop-shipped-hats-from-china side hustle and (I'm going to go out on a wild limb here and guess) his employer's ML-dataset-management-related startup. I wish cool stuff like this wasn't always sullied by the slimy feeling from it only being done to draw attention to some startup sitting smack in the middle of the trendiest buzzwords of the month.
- pcrh 2y agoOP is well involved in marketing, it seems. See: https://mrsteinberg.com/ https://mrsteinberg.com/
- biftek 2y agoThe government would probably be knocking on his door if he developed a guided hat dropping system
- cypherpunks01 2y agoYes, there's truly huge interest in the technical ability to accurately place hats on people of all ages and backgrounds, across the globe.
- WJW 2y agoI can assure you that if you develop a system to accurately place objects (bombs, say) on top of people and post the code on the open internet for everyone to see, the government will indeed have some critical question for you.
- GeneralMayhem 2y agoAccurately placing heavy, aerodynamic objects onto people when you start out directly above them is not very difficult. The hard parts are either placing the object on top of the person from a few hundred or thousand miles away, or - in this case - placing an object that tends to flutter rather than follow a ballistic trajectory.
- Animats 2y agoI was disappointed by that, too. Now if you had terminal guidance... Put flaps on the hat, and use shape-memory alloy wire and a coin cell to actuate them. The hats follow a laser beam projected by the drop unit. Minimal electronics required in the hat. This is how some "smart bombs" work.
- richardw 2y agoOr using the propeller to chase you until it is satisfied that it’s on your head.
- gumby 2y agoThe Ukrainians are going to corner the market for prank propellor hat drones once they win this war.
- flir 2y agoHe needs to put the AI in the hat. Hat-drones. Once he's done that, the military sector beckons.
- htrp 2y agoGotta raise a from a defencetech fund first
- dheera 2y agoIt looks like it has more to do with the aerodynamics of the hat than the wind. It also hits a ledge on its way down in the video. It seems like both of these are tractable issues. A round hat that is spun with a significant initial angular momentum would probably fair better in landing more predictably.
- oniony 2y agoOr could just add a brick to the hat to give it some heft.
- sexy_seedbox 2y agoSir, that would be terrorism.
- lupire 2y agoThat's the interesting part of the hack, and not attempted at all.
- EGreg 2y agoI know AI can do a lot but predict wind patterns? LOL Imagine using AI to drop an object and it falls perfectly where you want it.
- op00to 2y agoIt can pre-drop a pre-hat, and adjust for where the pre-hat lands.
- lupire 2y agoThe pre-hat would be a free hat?
- op00to 2y agoYes the first one is always free.
- randomdata 2y agoBut will it free Hat?
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> Imagine using AI to drop an object and it falls perfectly where you want it. There is a fantasy series that depicts this as a game that two young gods would play together when they were growing up. (Or rather, since one of them had vastly superior foresight to the other one, he'd bully his brother into playing with him.)
- skhr0680 2y agoLunar Lander 2024
- xnx 2y ago> he was using AI to actually land it directly on a person’s head DARPA would definitely come knocking
- s0rce 2y agoThis is exactly what I was expecting and I Was disappointed. Still mildly interesting but I don't really get it.
- itskarad 2y agothat's what I thought. What if there's a gust of wind?
- mvandermeulen 2y agoJust use a weight on the string with a configured go fast length and go slow length for your motor to observe
- dheera 2y agoDo it in a more dense city like Manila (4-6X NYC's density) and you're guaranteed to land the hat on someone.
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