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Rossy Trumpet, Bengaluru

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NH44, Chitradurga, Karnataka

Wind Farm

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Bengaluru, Karnataka

Malabar Silk Cotton Tree - never noticed this tree before taking this picture.

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Kodagu, Somvarpet, Karnataka

Miles and miles of wild grass, plateaus and coffee plantations.

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NH 66, Near Udupi, Karnataka

I was driving to Gokarna when I stopped to watch the sunset.

While admiring the view, saw this man walking alone in the opposite direction from people. Perhaps he was one of ‘us’ stopping by to enjoy the peaceful walk on immaculate beach or maybe he was a regular visitor. I felt a connection as I was travelling alone for the first time in my life in a strange beautiful land, the sea represented the vastness that needs to be experienced and the man - me, walking away from the people in my life again and again. It was beautiful and wonderful day, took a detour from the highway because of Google Maps and had to take the last ferry across the ocean because it was “shorter route”.

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A computer science student named Priyanjali Gupta, studying in her third year at Vellore Institute of Technology, has developed an AI-based model that can translate sign language into English.

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cs student: creates the most basic perceptron from the well baby-sat open source dataset people: OMG THAT'S WHAT AI FOR ✨✨✨

This is such basic shit. Her model recognizes basic signs at VERY limited speed. Moreover, the recognition works per frame. This means that her model isn't able to provide a meaningful translation for a series of signs, which results in tremendous loss of context. So the actual accuracy is going to be much lower.

Took a look at her github repo. She uses:

pretrained TensorFlow model

She DIDN'T create model from scratch by herself. She even DIDN'T perform advanced training and tuning of pretrained model.

the entire Object Detection TensorFlow API

She DIDN'T create a single advanced function by herself.

She brings zero novelty. I give my students harder projects as homework. The hype around this girl is embarrassing.

The actual working solutions for sign language translation have been existing since early 00s (well actually since 80s but you're not ready for this conversation).

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Oh god cut some slack hahaha, I doubt she could get all that juice to train the model. Data collection is very hard and expensive especially for specific tasks like these. If the model works at reasonable speed it’s okay but I agree shouldn’t be calling this a new invention.

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Gokarna, Karnataka

A weathered wooden bridge over a tidal creek.

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Gokarna, Karnataka

Sea of Footprints

New Years Eve

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Bangalore, Karnataka

Onset of spring in Bangalore is beautiful, the city has lanes filled with cheery blossoms and other exotic trees planted some 100 years ago.

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Mangalore, Karnataka

Mangalore is a beautiful costal city, it is situated on the other side of the Western Ghats in Konakan Region.

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Kodagu, Karnataka

Arabica coffee fruit before processing, coffee from this place is better than anywhere in the country.

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Kodagu, Karnataka

Rural Karnataka is beautiful, while driving towards the cost I parked my bike on the roadside and captured this beautiful moment. I will be posting more of this here.