3 ms·
Kind of off topic, but > Every problem has an ‘obvious’ solution on the surface after thinking for ten seconds. Is kind of a silly statement. What’s the obvi
by dartos 2y ago
Kind of off topic, but
> Every problem has an ‘obvious’ solution on the surface after thinking for ten seconds.
Is kind of a silly statement.
What’s the obvious way to automatically detect pictures of birds? Because diffusion and transformers are not it.
- fooker 2y agoGreat point. My cousin just (last year…) tried to do this as some extra credit high school thing. The ‘obvious’ solution was detecting edges with a python library and manually writing up 4-5 functions to identify features. It’s surprising that this even comes close to working.
- dartos 2y agoMaybe subjective, but I don’t think edge detection is “obvious” unless you spent time looking into image processing. Even then, grabbing an existing package is just offloading the solution discovery to someone else.
- fooker 2y agoIf it occurred to a 17yo without CS knowledge it's somewhat obvious. And offloading tricky logic to libraries is kind of how we build all software.
- dartos 2y agoYour cousin may just be very smart. I’ve been programming since I was 9 and I don’t think that would’ve occurred to me when I was 17 lol And yeah that is how we build all software, but just because someone else made a solution to something doesn’t mean that solution is obvious.