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Wow, this is an amazing application. I love olympic weightlifting, and seeing somebody build a training aide using computer vision in an app makes me feel like

Wow, this is an amazing application. I love olympic weightlifting, and seeing somebody build a training aide using computer vision in an app makes me feel like living in the future. What a nice contribution to this beautiful sport.

christoph 13y ago
This. I hadn't seen this app before and as I soon as I saw it I clicked "Install". Lovely stuff. Look forward to putting it to the test tomorrow and the foreseeable future. As an aside, do you expect to monetize this in someway, or are you just doing it for the good of man?
- martythemaniak 13y ago
  Thanks to both of you, I hope you find it useful and let me know if you run into issues. I'm planning to monetize and I have a few ideas, hopefully one of them works out!
  - Serow225 13y ago
    Very neat. Making the screenshot animated might give an even better idea of how it works and make the page a little more dynamic/involving. Do you have any plans to have it analyze the trace(s) and give the user suggestions on what to change?
  - 72deluxe 13y ago
    Very cool. Did you do all of the coding and heavy lifting on this app yourself? It certainly raises the bar in this area! Hopefully it didn't weigh you down whilst developing it. Sorry, today is clearly Pun Day.
    - iancarroll 13y ago
      You've used all of the puns :c
f_salmon 13y ago
This may be nice for certain niche users. But the trend I see is companies telling us to regularly buy stuff we really don't need (and obviously throw away our "old" solutions). The world has way more pressing issues than yet-another-gadget. And the planet's resources are not unlimited.
- Joeri 13y ago
  You're right that the science and practice of morality hasn't moved that much over the past 50 years while the science of technology has jumped by orders of magnitude, and that this is a problem that needs addressing. That doesn't mean we should stop evolving the state of the art in technology though. This is not an either/or situation. Ethical science relies on the advancement of technology, and vice versa.
  - scribu 13y ago
    I agree that the practice of morality seems sort of neglected in the western world. I don't see how ethical science relies on the advancement of technology, though. I'm not even sure what ethical _science_ is, to be honest.
- dualogy 13y ago
  I'm sorry that I'm not able to solve world hunger and world peace. Not sure why that means I cannot take it upon myself to hypothetically build a mobile computer-vision-powered app? Please enlighten.
  - coldtea 13y ago
    It doesn't mean it. It just means that if enough people think the same way, the world is doomed. Or, if not doomed, it's not getting any better in areas that matter. (People laugh at words like "doomed", assuming everything will be as it was when they were growing up. For some lucky ones that's true. For others the worse happens, like a financial collapse or a world war, and then they "knew it all along it was going to happen").

christoph 13y ago

This. I hadn't seen this app before and as I soon as I saw it I clicked "Install". Lovely stuff. Look forward to putting it to the test tomorrow and the foreseeable future. As an aside, do you expect to monetize this in someway, or are you just doing it for the good of man?

martythemaniak 13y ago
Thanks to both of you, I hope you find it useful and let me know if you run into issues. I'm planning to monetize and I have a few ideas, hopefully one of them works out!
- Serow225 13y ago
  Very neat. Making the screenshot animated might give an even better idea of how it works and make the page a little more dynamic/involving. Do you have any plans to have it analyze the trace(s) and give the user suggestions on what to change?
- 72deluxe 13y ago
  Very cool. Did you do all of the coding and heavy lifting on this app yourself? It certainly raises the bar in this area! Hopefully it didn't weigh you down whilst developing it. Sorry, today is clearly Pun Day.
  - iancarroll 13y ago
    You've used all of the puns :c

f_salmon 13y ago

This may be nice for certain niche users. But the trend I see is companies telling us to regularly buy stuff we really don't need (and obviously throw away our "old" solutions). The world has way more pressing issues than yet-another-gadget. And the planet's resources are not unlimited.

Joeri 13y ago
You're right that the science and practice of morality hasn't moved that much over the past 50 years while the science of technology has jumped by orders of magnitude, and that this is a problem that needs addressing. That doesn't mean we should stop evolving the state of the art in technology though. This is not an either/or situation. Ethical science relies on the advancement of technology, and vice versa.
- scribu 13y ago
  I agree that the practice of morality seems sort of neglected in the western world. I don't see how ethical science relies on the advancement of technology, though. I'm not even sure what ethical _science_ is, to be honest.
dualogy 13y ago
I'm sorry that I'm not able to solve world hunger and world peace. Not sure why that means I cannot take it upon myself to hypothetically build a mobile computer-vision-powered app? Please enlighten.
- coldtea 13y ago
  It doesn't mean it. It just means that if enough people think the same way, the world is doomed. Or, if not doomed, it's not getting any better in areas that matter. (People laugh at words like "doomed", assuming everything will be as it was when they were growing up. For some lucky ones that's true. For others the worse happens, like a financial collapse or a world war, and then they "knew it all along it was going to happen").