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yassa9
28d ago
I tried to use the sun info , but honestly I couldn't at all, thx for the tip
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yassa9
28d ago
really thank u John, I felt disappointed after those comments, someone below said that the pangram is against my text, I doubted myself and even went to online pangram : https://pangramaidetector.org/ spent literally half a
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yassa9
28d ago
haha : "write like a non-native English speaker" man, Im actually non native speaker xDD "replace you for u" ???? what ?!
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yassa9
28d ago
glad u liked it :D
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yassa9
28d ago
thaaank u man, I really appreciate ur comment
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yassa9
28d ago
haha, I wish , this is my first OSINT challenge to solve tho
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28d ago
do u mean the whole work ? I spent at first 3 "whole" days in research, trial and error trying different methods and scripts, like for example tried the depth estimation to build upon it, failed many times till I gave up then came
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28d ago
omg wow, thats super hard, although cool ,
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28d ago
haha, I actually agree
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yassa9
28d ago
really glad that you liked it
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28d ago
ok
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28d ago
thanks ! no idea about Palantir, but in my opinion, this can not be automated , needs much manual work and tons of trial and error
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yassa9
29d ago
thanks, and yea, it should be solved easily by passing the img to google lens, the website is the first result, but I found a fun opportunity to solve it in different way
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29d ago
honestly, I didn't think about it, I just trusted the OSM polygons
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29d ago
thanks, appreciate it
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29d ago
yea thank u, that's another part, but mainly it would hard although knowing that, because you need to know elevation of the drone or the camera, which is also extremely difficult (I already mentioned that in the blog)
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29d ago
ok, if u came with the whole conclusion by only this line, ok , but to answer u, ( I hate to justify myself , but have to ) I started writing the blog after I started solving another challenge from gralhix : https://gralhix.com&
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29d ago
I meant the blog itself, the writeup, the steps and the walkthrough all by hand , the final code u see is llm refined, of course, I wont publish my messy and spaghetti files with much tests, failures and dead ends, also vizualizations funct
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29d ago
yea, thanks :D , I used a tiny idea from geoguessing, that I banded the search on islands only in latitude between -30 to +30 deg. based on the sky and the tropical vibes in the img , and it worked !
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29d ago
oh, wow, I didnt know that existed, thank u, sure gonna look into it
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29d ago
yea, good observation, my guess is its the data more than the filter. OSM coastline polygons are generalized to different degrees depending on who traced them and from what imagery, so the fine shape detail a halo check would key on often i
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29d ago
haha, thanks :D I was hesitant to whether write it or not, but I really really despise llm generated posts and blogs and im glad someone appreciated it
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29d ago
yea, search about geoguessing on youtube, people like Rainbolt, https://www.youtube.com/@georainbolt they literally memorize and get patterns of every possible road, place, map of any area (scanned by google earth), gettin
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29d ago
yea , heard about them before, but didnt know that whole treasure till I really used it , impressive
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29d ago
thannks, really grateful :D
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29d ago
thaaank you !! Its my first ever challenge to do, and yea, I really found my passion
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Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming
(yassa9.github.io)
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in Egypt, every person is born with a universal national ID number , which is standardized everywhere here, but it created some problems, it became extremely valuable to attackers. If leaked, it can be reused across completely different se
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1mo ago
thaaanks man, this channel seems really informative, although < 10K subs only !
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1mo ago
Can anyone who has that specific personal test he tries on different models , and tries this model , to tell us here if possible , how good or bad is this new model ? compared to others ? I only trust those users genuine personal tests
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