ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Interesting! Apparently, it was originally going to be Pakstan, meaning 'land of the pure'.
Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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From the Guardian Amazon research article.
"It gets worse. On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. Click any of the top four links on the top of your screen and you’ll pay an average of 25% more than you would for your best match – which, on average, is located 17 places down in an Amazon search result."
Confirms my observations. Every new sector they enter gets low prices but only for a short while.
Bit like their media ventures which started off at high accuracy initially.
"It gets worse. On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. Click any of the top four links on the top of your screen and you’ll pay an average of 25% more than you would for your best match – which, on average, is located 17 places down in an Amazon search result."
Confirms my observations. Every new sector they enter gets low prices but only for a short while.
Bit like their media ventures which started off at high accuracy initially.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Wow!! I know that modern tech is getting very impressive but I just discovered something that really shook me...
I was searching for a photo on my phone so I typed in a word from the filename and clicked the search button. It was found instantly. Good. But then I spotted something odd...
The name of the photo file did not have that word in it! I had forgotten to rename the file when I saved it. How the heck did the search find the photo? Then I realised that the phone software must be looking in the images themselves for clues!
I just tested it again... Yes!
Filename: markup_1000001040.jpg
Search term: endura
It clearly read the label. The 2 instances of 'Endura' were not even horizontal!
Filename: PXL_20250611_091831336.jpg
Search term: lswr
That is at the top of the sign on the left, above my bike.
I also searched for the name of a village which I knew was on a screenshot of a section of an OS map which included many hundreds of place names - no problem!
I am impressed.
I was searching for a photo on my phone so I typed in a word from the filename and clicked the search button. It was found instantly. Good. But then I spotted something odd...
The name of the photo file did not have that word in it! I had forgotten to rename the file when I saved it. How the heck did the search find the photo? Then I realised that the phone software must be looking in the images themselves for clues!
I just tested it again... Yes!
Filename: markup_1000001040.jpg
Search term: endura
It clearly read the label. The 2 instances of 'Endura' were not even horizontal!
Filename: PXL_20250611_091831336.jpg
Search term: lswr
That is at the top of the sign on the left, above my bike.
I also searched for the name of a village which I knew was on a screenshot of a section of an OS map which included many hundreds of place names - no problem!
I am impressed.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
impressive but worrying
if it is doing all that automatically then what else is it analysing the phots for
I mean - the other day I was taking photos of erotic scenes in a brothel
what is it thinking about THAT!!
(just to be clear
this brothel ceased functioning as a proper brothel in 73AD in a rather dramatic manner when Vesuvius decided that the pressure was all getting too much for it
but still!)
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ha - I just tried again to see if it could find '1879' on the station sign on the right. It did.
It also found this photo:
(Date in the first sentence of the rightmost block of text.)
It also found this photo:
(Date in the first sentence of the rightmost block of text.)
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
FishFright
More wheels than sense
Are you hoping for a group discount ?
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
I was more wondering about prices for laminated prints!
(yes -laminated - gotta be washable!!!)
(sorry!)
Want something even more worrying?
One year FB suggested that I wish my friend a happy birthday and suggested a photo of the two of us together.
The worrying part? I have never put that photo on FB. It is my photo and he doesn't have it, far less shared it. He is not tagged in my photo library and FB *should* not have access to my photo library.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I wonder how Drago's phone copes without self imploding ?
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
I knew I could search for the content of images (like "cat") but I didn't know it did text.
Just tried Sandwich on my phone. It found a couple of photographs of bread-based snacks that I'd taken. And also this:
Very clever, but slightly worrying.
Just tried Sandwich on my phone. It found a couple of photographs of bread-based snacks that I'd taken. And also this:
Very clever, but slightly worrying.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
more than slightly worrying
makes me wonder how much similar things are "having a quick look" around the contents of people's Google Drive contents
OF COURSE they are not breaking any laws - that is clear
but ........
