Notable compute figures battle it out

Shotlink technology

Had a chance to tour the Shotlink trailer and see the new AI technology at work with explanation from the head honcho. As the article indicates, it is almost certainly going to transform coverage and be a huge boon to improving play on the greens. An excellent application of the emerging AI tech…

Photo to drawing

Playing around a bit with Adobe Photoshop. Learned a cool technique for turning any photo into something that looks like a charcoal line drawing in just a few clicks of the mouse. Here’s one of my bike shot in the Northern CA redwoods.

Is it really that hard?

With 2017 technology, you’d think it wouldn’t be that difficult to produce a safe automated system for trains running in a controlled environment. Good grief, I think I could cobble together a bunch of IoT sensors and do the job for <$1000/car easy. https://wtop.com/tracking-metro-24-7/2017/12/metro-acknowledges-smoother-rides-better-dont-expect-soon/