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Camera solved across 5 anchors (goalL, mid, goalR shown below):

I’ve been tinkering for a couple of years with applying computer vision to broadcast footage of soccer games. Aside from sourcing the video (for a later post), one of the first challenges I faced is establishing where the camera is looking. Purpose-built, dual-lens, “field cameras” such as Veo and Trace capture a nearly 180-degree panoramic…

However, the present review suggests that there is an ostrich problem such that, in many instances, people have a tendency to “bury their head in the sand” and intentionally avoid or reject information that would help them to monitor their goal progress. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12071

I’ve been tinkering with iCalendar, CalDAV and the like for a while. Here are some random notes on the topic: Writing a CalDAV server that implements the full spec and is compliant with a broad range of (sometimes noncompliant) clients seems challenging, to say the least. Most end-users interact with one of these proprietary calendar…

Me: What happened to Everett at the end of the Brothers K, by David James Duncan ChatGPT: In the novel “The Brothers K” by David James Duncan, Everett is one of the main characters. Everett is the youngest of the Chance brothers, and he is a talented and ambitious young man who dreams of becoming…

There are only two increments of time in software development: “real soon now” (actively working on it now), and “it’s on the roadmap” (maybe one day will actively work on it). Still real soon now! Moxie, https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1567492610713079814

There aren’t shortcuts for making sense of the world, and anyone who is selling themselves that way or buying into that narrative about them should read to us as a giant red flag. Charlie Warzel, “Musk, SBF, and the Myth of Smug, Castle-Building Nerds“

“There’s a desire to use process as a way to manage ambiguity you can’t control,” said Mark Matienzo, a software engineer for an academic institution. Agile and the Long Crisis of Software