license plate

Improve your nation’s Scrabble championship performance and learn new and exotic words with this one amazing license plate proposal! Call the DMV now and reserve a new plate!

Jan 6, 2020

Culture

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Background: English has a wide variety of rarely-used short words that are extremely useful in various word games (e.g. Scrabble, Words With Friends, Bananagrams), and not in very many other situations. Specifically, there are (in the 1993 FreeBSD dictionary that comes with Mac OS X), a total of: 139 two-letter words 1294 three-letter words 4994…
Improve the odds of finding a lost pet with this over-engineered license-plate-based system! The ultimate computer vision project for a machine learning startup.

Feb 3, 2019

Automotive / Cars, Beasts, Cameras / Photos / Video, Technology, UI / UX

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Background: “Lost cat” and “lost dog” signs are often placed up on telephone poles (Fig. 1), but it’s unlikely that a specific person who sees a lost pet will also have seen the sign (or even know that the pet is actually lost in the first place). Proposal: In order to add more people…