Image-Recognition Meets A Persistent Cat

DaveJay writes: "The folks at Quantum Picture have set up a system that demonstrates a creative and evidentally very effective use of image-recognition algorhytms: The 'Flo Control' system. It's a pet door that locks out their cat whenever she tries to carry another animal (mouse, bird, whatever) into the house. The system even uploads a picture of each attempt, along with its acceptance or rejection by the system, to their web server so the world can see what the cat didn't drag in."

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Re:Let me be the first to say it....

[ichimunki]

They might if the story was newsworthy. Remember 9/11 coverage? Same 60 minutes of destruction played out non-stop for a few days running, analyzed every possible which way. You see the same thing all the time. While I agree that Slashdot lacks a certain professionalism about this stuff, they probably have a lot of trouble keeping up with "thousands of submissions". If someone who can front-page a story misses a day, they have 30 potential stories they might screw up and accidentally front-page again.

FWIW, I think /. should simply be choosier about publishing anything, rather than Rob's goal of having some 30 new stories every day. Ten top notch submissions, where a Slashdot writer actually investigates the article for more than 10 seconds would be worth a lot more to me than 30 mindless links. It might also be cool if they batched them, rather than forcing constant reloads all day to see if anything new pops up. Like a morning edition and an evening edition.