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by wgrover 19d ago
I think my "cautious optimism" mostly came from the fact that Gemini found subtle problems with the counterfeit packages that I (someone who looks at fakes as part of my job) didn't notice - like mismatched info between the t
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by wgrover 19d ago
That's fascinating! If any of your work using AI to identify reproductions is publicly sharable, I'd love to learn more about it (amateur antique collector here). But if not I understand.
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by wgrover 19d ago
Regarding scaling - I think you're right if the AI mostly detects typos, like it did in this work. I'm hopeful that future AI models (perhaps trained for this purpose, not a general-purpose model like I used here) might be able to
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by wgrover 19d ago
Thanks! I'm putting "doing cool stuff with really basic ideas" in my bio... :)
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Identifying fake cosmetics using AI(groverlab.org)
62 points by wgrover 19d ago|27 comments
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Identifying fake cosmetics using artificial intelligence(groverlab.org)
3 points by wgrover 21d ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 28d ago
Your comment makes me think of LabVIEW - if you're not familiar with it, it uses a visual programming language ("G") in which data flows down wires. The color of the wire indicates the wire's data type (blue for ints, o
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by wgrover 6mo ago
Fans of the band Wilco will recognize one of the Conet Project's recordings as the source of the woman repeating "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" in the song "Poor Places" from the eponymous album. Wilco failed to license th
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by wgrover 7mo ago
Yes! And every day the California Citrus State Historic Park is open for tours and tasting of various citrus varieties: https://www.californiacitruspark.com
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by wgrover 1y ago
And I remember going to Radio Shack at the mall as a kid and wanting that Armatron robot so badly! Being able to get these things now for pretty cheap and fixing them and playing with them with my kids has been such a treat.
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by wgrover 1y ago
A parenting tip for those with geeky kids: You can get some of these (like the smaller TOMY robots) for pretty cheap on eBay. They're usually broken, but the innards of these robots are so interesting, just taking them apart is a lear
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by wgrover 1y ago
In the site's defense, it is emulating like ten different operating systems as you scroll.
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by wgrover 1y ago
Here's a cross-section through the theatre portion of the Barbican showing the complexity of the engineering: https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/5w9ep7/cross_...
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by wgrover 2y ago
I'm guessing the title was meant to be a nod toward the meaning of the English word iota , "an extremely small amount".
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by wgrover 2y ago
Yup - the first few minutes of one of Technology Connections' videos on electromechanical pinball machines shows this mechanism in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo
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by wgrover 2y ago
Your post reminded me of Mark Twain’s very funny short story “The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm”: https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story...
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by wgrover 2y ago
Here's a Python script I wrote that generates storage bin labels and prints them using a cheap 2" by 3" label printer: https://github.com/wgrover/jamie The name 'jamie' is in honor of Mythbuste
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by wgrover 2y ago
I miss Pine too. I could read/file/delete scores of plaintext emails in seconds using single keystrokes. Every email client I've used since Pine has been better at dealing with all the stuff we've bolted on to email (HT
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by wgrover 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestion - I looked into music recognition algorithms early on but struggled to adapt them for image use. But I'll revisit them.
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by wgrover 2y ago
Thanks! There are related structures in electronic circuits called physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that find uses in cryptography - you might find them interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonab
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by wgrover 2y ago
Here's some work I did a couple years ago using some of these principles to fight counterfeit medicines: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11234-4 A side note: I think there's an unmet need for alg
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by wgrover 3y ago
You might also find moiré-effect navigation beacons interesting, like the one that Tom Scott visits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM
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by wgrover 3y ago
Can anyone recommend a backup strategy for iCloud? Specifically, my Macs' hard drives aren't big enough for any one computer to store everything locally, so some documents end up living only in iCloud which is clearly asking for
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by wgrover 3y ago
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/mars.pdf
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by wgrover 3y ago
I had the same thought. BTW, the movie is titled "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!" in the UK (same as the book it's based on). The studio changed the title for Americans [1], perhaps assuming we'd be less
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by wgrover 3y ago
https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr Random musings of a professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. A few highlights: - https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2017-12-10-csu.html - My inves
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by wgrover 4y ago
https://www.simplify3d.com/3d-printing-the-curta-calculator-... And a fun video of Adam Savage playing with Marcus Wu's 3D-printed Curta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9uRckJLqLk
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40 years later, officials reflect on “The Play” (Cal vs. Stanford)(alumni.berkeley.edu)
1 points by wgrover 4y ago|0 comments
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CandyCodes: Simple universally unique edible IDs for fighting fake drugs(nature.com)
5 points by wgrover 4y ago|0 comments
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by wgrover 4y ago
Lovely work. Here's a similar project where I showed that randomly-placed multicolored candy particles (nonpareils) can be used to confirm the authenticity of pharmaceuticals: https://www.nature.com/articles/s415

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