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CanUCitApp
Find the dropped pill on the rug, or the keys in the room | |
CanUCit?
What?
I dropped the pill.
Which pill? The same one you lost last time, Eliquist?
Yes.
Are you in the same living room?
Yes.
Take a picture of the rug.
OK I still don't see it. Take a picture of the room so I can tell you where to look.
OK, you were near the
table, this one, right?
Yes.
OK, Where were you sitting? Same place?
Yes.
That's here, right?
Yes.
OK, maybe it rolled onto your pants. Did you stand up and check?
Yes, I already did that.
Maybe it rolled next to the foot of the table, on the other side, where you can't see. Hold your phone ahead of you and point the camera down, toward the foot of the table. No that's too much. Point it a little more to your left. Up a tiny bit. More. Yes. Great. There it is!!
This of course is for my father. I don't take any pills. Actually, I do. But I never drop them. Wait...
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...Of course, this is the advanced version to come out in five years time. Meanwhile, the first versions will just find something that you for some reason can't see, by looking at the picture of what you are looking at and searching for something similar to what you cannot find.
AutoTidy
[pocmloc, Apr 05 2023]
FetchBot
[pocmloc, Apr 05 2023]
Help Me Find
https://www.reddit....ere_somewhere_help/
SubReddit for help in finding hard to see items [AusCan531, Apr 05 2023]
Proving once again the comic pages are cosmically linked to HB
https://www.gocomic.../pickles/2023/04/13
For posterity [a1, Apr 13 2023]
[link]
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[+] This could be easy and workable if you had previously taken reference images of the carpeting, the room, and other spots. Then a sweep with your camera could point out things that weren't in the reference image. |
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Notwithstanding false positives from dust bunnies, [+]. |
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True, it would need a programmable dust bunny filter. Perhaps it could be trained by a CAPTCHA - next time you have to prove you’re not a robot, you’d do so by trying to click all the picture that have a dust bunny in them. |
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Ahh, this is AI doing something useful by seeing what is really there and making sense of it against pill* databases and tile samples/carpet swatches, rather than making stuff up <looking at you, ChatGPT>. |
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*Conventional pharmaceuticals, vitamin and mineral supplement databases included; police Evidence** lockers could supply visual training on the less-legal drugs. |
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**Come to think of it, there's a guy who would do this gratis in exchange for a modest sample of each--Has anyone seen the Intercalary? |
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Can I upload pictures of commonly lost items and then sweep my room and drawers* with my phone camera for an auto-find? Is my marker in this cluttered drawer?
*go ahead, say it. |
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//Has anyone seen the Intercalary?// |
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No, not since witness protection. |
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Excellent idea. You should delete this and go make it. |
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There are 2 SubReddits 'Help me find' and 'Find the Sniper' where people drop screws, pills etc then post a picture to crowd sourch finding them. [link] |
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//drawers ([Voice])// <snigger>> s/he said 'drawers' <<snigger>> |
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//AutoTidy/ FetchBot/ Help Me Find// Aha! THIS is who/what's going to train [pashute]'s AI, thus electronicalfying the whole process for posterity*. |
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*Who is Posterity? Must be a Sir PTerry character. |
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Whoever he is he better do us right for all we do for him. |
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Do these pants make my posterity look big? |
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They don't make it look big, it is big anyway. Is that the right answer? |
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Thanks! I was hoping for a big posterity. |
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//comic pages are cosmically linked to HB// Or, and hear me out, Brian Crane is an HBer by an(y)other name. The search is on for Brian Crane's HB acronym/moniker/handle! |
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Oh, it's not just him. I notice these little coincidences a lot from various artists, and not just simple word choices. Jokes and comments that show up here, and some kind of echo shows up in funny pages a few days or a week later. |
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I have a better explanation than a cosmic/comic connection but revealing it would spoil the fun. |
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