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The hard part about this problem is getting the scale and thus volume of the objects right. How big is that bowl holding your cereal?
by sjtrny 13y ago
The hard part about this problem is getting the scale and thus volume of the objects right. How big is that bowl holding your cereal?
- millstone 13y agoAnd is that Coke or Diet Coke?
- vidarh 13y agoAnd have you "hidden" a dash of syrup or 100g of nuts under the milk. But it'd be useful for rough estimates for things like restaurant meals, with the aid of a menu.
- rtpg 13y agopanorama-like shot + obligatory 'token' in the shot should solve that, right?
- waps 13y agoDo the same as humans do : it's 25cl ... point. You won't be far off the mark.
- vidarh 13y agoYou probably will be far off the mark. I realized once I started tracking my food seriously that 1) those glasses I have that I though were substantially bigger than those other glasses? They held the exact same amount; 2) the amount of calories I consume could easily vary by 30% or more depending on how full I'd fill my various glasses, plates or food containers.
- waps 13y agoI don't think getting a 30% margin of error would be all that disastrous. How big is the error margin on people measuring ?