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i don’t think dog vomit is particularly yummy and probably tastes pretty chemically but dogs tuck into that shit like it’s le cordon bleu

why did you eat cardboard soaked in ammonia

sugar is a “raw chemical” 🤓

i like to think my palate is slightly different to that of a dog

they evolved to basically survive on table scraps and other food humans didn’t want to eat so i’m not sure our concepts of “peak taste” will be the same

people sometimes have to stop their dogs eating their own vomit

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you had the opportunity to buy the winning lottery numbers last week and you BLEW IT

Yes, that’s what I’ve been trying to explain

jwo is a different problem than the separate checkout kiosk you’re describing

jwo is the same problem as is in the image

JWO was not built to be accurate, it was built to be convenient

it was built to be accurate within the boundary of “no checkout step”

at this point it feels like you’re deliberately misinterpreting me

Notice how the “bowl” is a white square with each fruit placed in a way where they’re separated by the whitespace

unless somebody moves or jostles them while taking some fruit

you’re essentially making the exact same naive assumptions about the operating environment that led to jwo’s failures

if “just track which one disappeared” was a valid solution to the problem, jwo wouldn’t have failed

The hardest part about the berry bowl would by far be determining the person taking the fruit

facial recognition is a thoroughly solved problem, at least in terms of the accuracy that we’re aiming for here

it’s AI, it’s made of statistics, there will always be some errors

7 in 10 required manual review

This is as opposed to blurry store cameras looking at an entire aisle from 20 feet away and trying to guess what item the customer is taking off the shelf. It’s an entirely different problem space in every way that matters.

which is why that wasn’t the setup of just walk out

every location was quite literally purpose built with the express goal of making the just walk out technology as accurate as it possibly could be

You place the item on the pad and it selects the most likely item in the store based on what it sees

this is a completely different problem

nobody’s placing the berry or berries they decide to eat or not eat in a separate area before placing them in their mouth

pretty sure items on a shop shelf are in the same arrangement each day

which is why just walk out also had rfid tokens on all their products

you can’t do that with a strawberry unless you like your fruit crunchy

not in the ways that matter, and small, organic items like individual berries are far harder to account for than standardized product packaging

automated checkout tech is actually good enough to be used in production now

not really.

amazon’s just walk out is the leader in this area, and it came out recently that the bulk of transactions, 7 in 10, are offloaded for manual review in india

amazon of course denied the claim, but so in vague corporate speak, and failed to provide figures to counter the 7-in-10. they also did confirm that they’re scaling back just walk out. i don’t think those things would be the case if this technology worked as they were hoping.

this isn’t counting people. this is working out which item or items people pick up from a shelf and decide to keep, if any. that isn’t just similar to the automated checkout problem: it’s the same exact problem. if anything, this iteration of it is more challenging because a blueberry is a fair amount smaller than a tin of beans.

amazon spent a lot of money on trying to do this and then found out the technology doesn’t exist and outsourced it to india

you say valve isn’t doing something, i provide an example where they are, and your defense is that they’re just a big stinky liar?

cool, nice chat

Nope, you are wrong

But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM.

you’d hope, wouldn’t you?

But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM.

not really, unless you’re implying the fancy hotdog vendor paid for the development of said hotdogs, which they didn’t

games don’t belong to valve

yesssssssss, but the second hot-dog vendor wants to offer customers lower prices, and the first says they can’t because otherwise those hot dogs will be banned from their stand, and the second responds by attempting to throw piss water-balloons at any passers by, or something