<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 9:38 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><p>I want that, only I want Google Glass (or equivalent) to identify the beast and do some kind of image recognition and find the site, then tell me the information in my ear so my eyes are free to observe and my hands are free to manage the camera. I want to have something analogous to a really well-informed entomology professor with me at all times, only better: I want one who can hike as well as I can, and see as well as I can, but be a thousand times smarter about bugs. That’s all I really want. When we get that, it will be the next step, equivalent to how it was when we first got the web. Now you computer jockeys and internet hipsters, how do I get that?</p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>First get Google Glass or equivalent.<br><br></div><div>After that, there seem to be templates for image recognition apps. But you'll need data. Get a suitably large training set of beast shots with which to identify. Textbook shots might not suffice, since they'll be compared to the shots you'll actually take in the field. <br>
</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And, well, that should keep you busy for a while. ;)<br></div></div>
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