Curling stone tracking v1 Olympic Games edition. How I... made this first version: - YOLO for real-time stone detection - ByteTrack (Supervision) for consistent object tracking - SciPy for trajectory smoothing - OpenCV + NumPy for annotation, velocity, direction and acceleration visualization The colors indicate whether the stone is : accelerating → green stable → orange decelerating → redshow more

RoadScan-AI-Automated-Pothole-Detection-Tracking RoadScan AI is a computer vision system built... to automatically detect and track potholes in road footage — including dashcam, drone, and fixed-camera video. At its core, the system uses a YOLO11n model fine-tuned on a custom pothole dataset, paired with ByteTrack for multi-object tracking. This enables the system to maintain a consistent identity for each pothole across frames rather than treating every detection as a new, isolated event.show more

Pothole detection on the road in real time using... Ultralytics YOLO26! 🕳️ Manual road inspections are slow, costly, and hard to scale. With object detection, potholes can be identified directly from street-level images or video feeds, enabling faster and more consistent road condition monitoring. How I built this demo: ✅ Trained a segmentation model on a custom dataset. ✅ Generated mask contours for each pothole. ✅ Leveraged the onnx-exported model for faster processing. #Pothole #RoadDamage #AIshow more

TRUMP: PRICES WILL DROP LIKE STONE, JUST WATCH! ◾... Because we won't need oil or gas. Tesla free energy is the direction we are heading. NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME. ARE YOU READY FOR THE FUTURE? 📍 Ultrasonic electric jets 📍 Autonomous cars 📍 Flying cars. 📍 JOB LOSS = #GESARA ◾ NO FEAR, BEAUTIFUL NEW WORLD!!! PRICES WILL GO BACK IN THE 1950S AND REAL ESTATE PRICES I Love the Green Tie... Its Go Time!!!!show more

JoezMcfly🇩🇴 The Red Sox made me the most depressed... I have ever been in my life tonight but this actually put a smile and a laugh on my face for the first time this whole game and it wasn’t even from the Red Sox, that’s how bad are offense is holy cow.show more

Robots can now reconstruct 3D scenes in real time... from a single RGB camera. [📍 Projects page + paper] No depth sensor. No retraining. 30 FPS. Researchers at the Imperial College London introduced KV-Tracker, a training-free method that makes heavy models like π³ and Depth Anything 3 fast enough for real-time tracking. The idea is simple. These models use global self-attention, which is powerful but computationally expensive. KV-Tracker caches the key and value pairs from selected keyframes and reuses them for new frames. That cache becomes an implicit scene representation. Result: • Up to 30 FPS • 10 to 15x speedup • Accurate 6-DoF tracking on benchmarks like TUM RGB-D and 7-Scenes • Works with monocular RGB only It also supports object-level tracking with masks and allows saving the KV-cache for later reuse. For robotics, this reduces hardware constraints and moves real-time 3D perception closer to practical deployment. Credit to Marwan Taher (Marwan Taher) at Imperial’s Dyson Robotics Lab and many others who contributed to this! 📍 Save projects page + paper for later: Video: ——- if it matters in AI or Robotics you'll read it here first:show more

Weekend Storm Update Despite what you might have heard…... I am STILL tracking the potential for a significant snow event this weekend. If it happens, the snow would arrive Sunday afternoon/evening. Model Guidance has been all over the place but I’ve been fairly consistent with my message: This looks like a Miller B Nor’Easter. Miller B storms typically have a mix line that sets up along I-78/I-80 in eastern PA and NJ. The European Model suggests that mix changes over to heavy snow as this storm strengthens. Whether or not that actually happens is pure speculation at this point. There are some non-linear processes that need to go exactly correct for this storm to produce significant snow. If not, the storm could miss off to the south. So nothing is set in stone yet, but the threat remains. ~Meteorologist Mark Margavage #wxtwitter #wxX #PAwxshow more

🚨 Cyclonic Storm 'DANA' Update 🚨 Cyclonic Storm 'DANA'... is approaching the coasts of Odisha and West Bengal. 🌊 ISRO’s EOS-06 and INSAT-3DR satellites have been tracking the storm since October 20, providing real-time data to aid disaster management efforts. Early Detection: EOS-06 detected ocean wind patterns, offering valuable lead time for safety measures. Continuous Updates: INSAT-3DR delivers real-time cloud data, helping authorities make informed decisions. 🎥 Watch the Animated Video: See how Cyclone 'DANA' evolved from October 19-23. ➡️ Learn more at: This aligns with the Hon'ble PM's vision of a safer, resilient India and supports #AatmanirbharBharat by using indigenous technology for public safety. 🌍 #ISRO #DigitalIndiashow more

This is the part people skip, and it changes... everything. Look at the collar: dozens of perfectly parallel grooves flowing over a compound curve, then meeting crisp hieroglyphs and framed scenes without the spacing collapsing. That is not random artistry. That is layout, measurement, and repeatable process. In Egypt’s Late Period, anthropoid stone sarcophagi became a prestige technology in their own right, carved in hard, fine-grained stone with long offering texts and protective deities. One benchmark example is the British Museum’s siltstone sarcophagus of the vizier Sasobek (26th Dynasty, around 600 BC), described as among the finest of its type. How did they get this finish? Ancient Egyptian stoneworking is widely understood as an abrasives driven craft: copper or bronze tools, drills, and saws did not “slice” hard stone by themselves, they carried quartz sand and other abrasives that did the cutting, followed by intensive grinding and polishing. Now the question that should start an argument: If this level of repeatable precision was achievable at scale, what was the real “advanced technology” here: the tools, or the workshop system? Time budget guess: how many person-hours for just the collar and inscription fields, not the whole coffin?show more

One more secret before the pharaoh’s curse erases my... brain later today. This is my legacy for you to continue. Goodbye! Remember that year when I desperately tried to cast the ancient Egyptian “impossible ashtray” using countless tips and tricks and failed badly every single time? The problem back then? I was unable to come up with a mix that hardens without cracking using a few millimeters thickness only. I tried to pour the geopolymer mix onto a wax shape 🕯️ , a balloon 🎈, then onto the outer side of a bowl etc. But no matter how hard I tried, my “impossible ashtray” fell apart into coin sized pieces because of cracking. I have wasted gazillions of hours, and enormous amounts of metakaolin and waterglass just to learn how NOT to cast this object. But the impossible ashtray must be a casting, no matter what. Right? I admired ancient Chinese porcelain’s precision for a long time but it took me more than a year to connect the two. This is how slow my brain 🧠 is. Because who cares? There was certainly no connection between ancient China and Egypt, right? Except… History Investigation by Vee showed us that ancient Chinese people used the very same tools for jade works than Egyptians for… khm 🫣 Is that a connection or a coincidence? God knows. But even if it’s a coincidence, it was worth checking whether porcelain making techniques could have been anything to do with geopolymers. What makes porcelain different from everything else is that they pour the porcelain mix INSIDE a hard mold (made from gypsum), let it dry for 2-4 minutes and then pour the rest of the mixture out of the mold. So they are creating a few mm thin layer INSIDE, on the inner wall of the mold. And then, as the porcelain mix is shrinking (lightbulb moment!💡) while drying, it will release the mold and you end up with a precision mug or other object ready to go into the oven. Now have a good look at my very first, not cracked, beautiful geopolymer “precision vase” created using the porcelain method in a plastic container. Yes, it is red. I swear I’ll redo it with white metakaolin. Yes, it’s not an ashtray. Yes, it inherited its precision from a 21st century object. Yes, yes, yes. But! It’s a few millimeter thick cast stone in a shape of a bowl! A STONE!!!!! 🪨🪨🪨🪨 How cool is that? Do you think it’s still impossible to create the “impossible ashtray” via casting? Fun fact: the impossible ashtray is “carved” from “anortoistic gneiss” officially, which is a fancy made up word for WE DON’T KNOW.show more

This is why I fell in love with the... fans of Red Star Belgrade (Delije). I have never seen or played in a better atmosphere than this one especially when we play at the Maracana stadium. With Delije away games feels like home games and that pressure to always get the first goal early to trigger the fans can be good or bad sometimes if you don't score early. I love every song I love how both old and young people show their love and support for the team. Red Star is like the Real Madrid of the Balkan region with a lot of history and great traditions. Playing in front of this amazing Fans and how they light up the stadium with their enthusiasm is something special. Zvezda Volime te 🔴⚪️show more

Hello Hugh Thomas , let’s do it one by... one, sample by sample, stone by stone. Whenever an artificial stone recipe of mine reaches a certain stage that’s the results are comparable to the natural version I’ll send a cast sample to you (with its mold) to analyze. The first one could be this perfectly chiseled fake limestone cube. As you can see you can’t fit a razor blade between the stone and the cheap silicone mold from Temu. This proves my micro chiseling skills. The recipe is public, you don’t even need my cube, you could create your own - but you won’t. So I’ll send this cute cube to you. The “secret” recipe is: I started from wood ash lye, also called potash, or K2CO3, by slowly dripping water through hard wood ash. Hard wood ash from your fireplace, yeah. Then I added slaked lime, and the chemical reaction produced fine, molecular level CaCO3 particles, fine limestone floating in the liquid. FYI: the secret chemical reaction is, and was in the ancient times as well: K2CO3 + Ca(OH)2 = CaCO3 + 2KOH Yummy! Next step: I let the limestone particles settle, and poured the KOH, potassium hydroxide solution above (that also formed in the liquid, see above) into the kitchen sink as it is a very good drain cleaner indeed. I added water and poured it into the sink several times, trying to clean the slurry from the KOH. So yes, the cube is from almost pure limestone, CaCO3 - with some residual KOH contamination. The KOH contamination can be reduced infinitely, I just stopped after 4 rounds. (Pro tip: put the slurry into a filter bag and put the bag into a mountain creek for an hour.) The next step is filtering and pressing the remaining liquid from the slurry. Because it’s a wet mess at this point. Pressure is a key factor to success! At least one thing is accurate from the universal canon: no pressure-no stone. How do I know? By trying and failing a few (dozen) times. So I poured the white limestone slurry into a sock 🧦 and pressed and squeezed it by hand - and that was JUST enough pressure for the magic to happen 😮 It looks like nature/god is on our side, everything is working as it was designed this way. Then I put the almost dry limestone paste into this Temu mold. Fun fact: it still contains a lot of water which will eventually be pressed out as the crystallization progresses, so we’ll need to get rid of that water through a hole, a nub. But there is no hole 🕳️ on this Temu mold so I poured the excess liquid from the top a few times. Hardening time=drying time=crystallization time : 1 week. The important lesson I learned from this experience is as follows: I tried to understand why this sludge turned into hard stone, because, as we were told, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, and my understanding is this: wood ash lye does two different magics in parallel for this to happen: 1. It magically contains the right kind of contamination to facilitate calcite crystal formation and 2. The incredibly high pH (remember, 2 molecules of KOH are produced from 1 molecule of K2CO3!) in the liquid boost the calcite formation even more. ———- My only request from you and your colleagues concerning this analysis is full, 100000% transparency. And be honest. I know something you clearly don’t: you have lost this battle already. We need the data fast, not in 4 years or something. Transparency means sharing whatever you find here on X, without scientific drama and pullbacks. We don’t need a 947 pages scientific paper. We need the results, the data only. BTW: I already know what you will find: a “special type of natural limestone” with some minimal potassium contamination🤣🤣🤣 Now feel free to DM me, let this scientific analysis happen! And thank you for your offer!show more

The first time people see this place, they assume... it is AI-generated. It is not. This wonder is real and it has stood in the sea for thirteen hundred years... It is called Mont Saint-Michel, a small island off the coast of Normandy, where a medieval abbey rises in tiers of stone straight out of the sea, climbing to a single golden spire nearly a hundred metres above the water. There is nothing around it. It stands alone in a vast bay, and the effect is so strange that the eye struggles to accept it: a whole city of stone, floating between the water and the sky. What makes it stranger still is that the sea around it disappears. Mont Saint-Michel sits in a bay with the highest tides in continental Europe. Twice a day the ocean retreats for kilometres, leaving the abbey stranded on a desert of wet sand, and twice a day it floods back in and turns the rock into an island again. The same place is, within hours, surrounded by ocean and surrounded by emptiness. For more than a thousand years, this rhythm has never once stopped. Victor Hugo, who loved it, described it perfectly in 1884: “Mont-Saint-Michel is to France what the Great Pyramid is to Egypt.” I started this newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.show more

NASA ARTEMIS II MISSION UPDATE The crew and Orion... are approximately 94,117km to the Moon, they're also just over 350,000km away from Earth. They're also travelling at a speed of approximately 2,523km/h, this will start to increase as the lunar sphere of influence takes a hold of the crew and Orion later today. Approximately 41.8% of the mission has been completed. Currently the crew is into the Orion Crew Survival System Suit Developmental Flight Objective (OCSS DFTO) operations, which is essentially a simulated emergency onboard the spacecraft and involves the OCSS suits being donned along with the crews strapping themselves into their seats and the cabin pressure being dropped to 10.2 PSI. This of course is one of many extremely important objectives that is being performed during the duration of this test flight around the Moon. OTC (Outbound Trajectory Correction) burn #3 is also still planned for later today, this is very much subject to change though if NASA decides to skip this burn also. We will be sure to keep you updated if this changes. And yes, I can in fact confirm the toilet is still working! Be sure to check out our Artemis II Real Time Tracking 24/7 stream if you'd like to watch all the action unfold in real time! NSF Artemis II Real Time Tracking 24/7 | NSF - NASASpaceflight.comshow more

Back in March 2023, I flew to New York... for my first Real Estate X event at SoHo House, not knowing how much that trip would change everything. It was the beginning of so many relationships, opportunities, and conversations that shaped my career. At the time, I was just focused on showing up, and meeting people to see what I could learn. Fast forward to now, being invited to attend the Real Estate X Gala, speak on stage, and even do a red carpet interview with the X team feels surreal. Never would I have thought that simply posting, sharing my journey, and staying consistent would lead to rooms like this and opportunities like these. Grateful for people like StripMallGuy Bob Knakal | NYC Investment Sales and the entire Real Estate X community Rosemarie Esposito for creating spaces where we can be seen, and grow. Keep documenting your journey. Keep posting. You never know which post, conversation, or flight will change everything.show more

I spent the weekend at the San Antonio Riverwalk... for the first time since I proposed to my wife, almost 8 years ago. Here’s the results 👇 What I saw was a grotesque, culturally homogeneous invasion of streetshitters. I could probably count with one hand the amount of Americans, and two were homeless sleeping on a stone bench. I felt unrepresented in my own home state. There is no longer the “replacement theory”, it’s moved to a full on “replacement mission” Indians were haggling with the boat drivers like they control the prices. Indians leaving $0 tip on a $150 family dinner after sending the food back because it had beef sauce. Turbans stuck out of the riverboat ferries and the stone bridges like whack-a-mole, and I wish they rented mallets. At one point there was somebody fishing under Selena’s bridge. We spent <2 hours walking and just left, nothing was enjoyable. There wasn’t even any cultural Mexicans in their Huipils, no shawls, no sombreros. Just turbans and Sarees, and red dots eye level as far as I could stomach to look. The big cities fall first in wartime, as the plague ravages through the smaller communities next who are usually oblivious to outside events. I was so shocked and appalled I didn’t even think to take a video for myself, so this is just a random TikTok I found but that also reinforces the narrative that it wasn’t a “one time thing” These roaches are everywhere and they’re not fucking leaving fast enough.show more

England and Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice was asked in... a recent interview whether he felt any sympathy for Lionel Messi after Argentina’s defeat in the World Cup final. “I respect the career he’s had,” Rice began, “but no, I don’t feel sorry for him. A lot of people already knew the path was made comfortable. They didn’t have to go through the hardest route. Most of their knockout games came against African teams that weren’t at the same level. That’s not the same as grinding through Europe’s top sides.” Rice continued: “When a team avoids the real tests for so long, the final becomes the first time they face proper structure and intensity. Spain exposed that. The result didn’t surprise those who were paying attention. Football at this level should be earned the hard way, not protected by the draw.”show more

Why did they have a loophole like this in... the first place? We should have had laws like this years ago to finally stop grave site robbers and vandalism. An Ohio bill seeks to create a felony offense for taking items or decorations from a gravesite This woman was so devastated by the cruelty of others I am hurt, angry, and heartbroken. Today, I went to my son’s gravesite at Green Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery, and what I found brought me to tears. Everything I put out there is gone. Every flower, every decoration, every piece of love I placed to honor his memory... all of it is missing. To make things worse, the metal vase that’s built into the headstone has been broken off. How could this even happen? It’s all metal and connected to the stone. There is no way this could come apart on its own. On top of that, his gravestone is sinking into the ground on the front side. After all the money, time, and care I’ve invested to make sure his resting place was beautiful and respected, this is unacceptable. I have tried calling, leaving message after message, and I will keep calling until I reach someone who can explain what happened. Families should not have to endure this kind of heartbreak and disrespect. This isn’t just about missing items… It’s about respect. Respect for my son’s memory. Respect for grieving families. Respect for every person who has to visit a cemetery because their loved one was taken too soon. Something needs to be done. Our loved ones deserve better. And so do weshow more

grok bot + obsidian is basically superhuman mode... my... agent team now has a second brain... a karpathy-style llm wiki for every bot, every decision, and every piece of research. p.s. this video was made and edited by grok bot in cap (here’s how i set it up in roughly 5 minutes) 1/ create one obsidian vault on the chief of staff’s computer. make Home.md the door. 2/ create Hunt folders for twitter, github, hacker-news, reddit, product-hunt, and inbox. 3/ create Ship folders for drafts, digests, angles, and builds. 4/ create the CoS wiki: Index, How-it-works, Today, and Decisions. 5/ create Maps for Jarvis, Hooks, and TELOS. 6/ use graph colors: gold for wiki, teal for maps, blue for twitter, green for github. 7/ file first. every note gets a date and a folder. 8/ scouts write into Hunt and never ping you. chat only receives a short digest. 9/ nothing in the vault posts, pays, or sends. the final yes stays human. 10/ run the daily loop: 08:00 IST for the Daily note, then agency reports at 08:14, 14:14, and 20:14. 11/ performance writes to twitter/live-score. staff engineer writes to builds/. 12/ lock decisions in Wiki/Decisions so dead posts don’t get remade. 13/ earn hooks in Maps/Hooks: trend -> foil -> hook family -> artifact -> lock. don't waste time reading this. give it to your agentshow more

Well… this is awkward. I’ve done a complete 360.... I originally believed the basalt floor tool marks east of Khufu’s pyramid were ancient saw cuts and possibly evidence of lost technology. Then a 180. A few years ago, I made a video arguing they were modern. George Reisner’s Harvard expedition worked extensively in this area, a modern road once crossed over these stones, and I’d heard accounts from locals describing how people used modern tools to remove stone for the forgery trade. Given all that, it seemed like a reasonable conclusion at the time. After taking a much closer look today, however, I’ve changed my mind. I’m now convinced these cuts are ancient.💯 That doesn’t mean the technique was impossible for the ancient Egyptians. Clearly, it wasn’t. But aspects of how they achieved these cuts may still be lost to us. So the “modern cuts” debunking theory can now be placed quietly in the bin. Chalk one up for the alternative historians and YouTubers who argued these cuts were ancient. They were right after all, and I stand corrected. Funny old thing, evidence. It has an inconvenient habit of changing minds.show more

🚨GAUTAM GAMBHIR MASSIVE STATEMENT ON HIS FUTURE AS INDIA's... HEAD COACH🤯 Gautam Gambhir said :🗣️ "I am here to display the results & frankly speaking it has been a roller coaster ride so far. The main goal is always to win major tournaments & team has won Champions trophy & T20 World cup. There will be bad days offcourse, but this is how it goes sonedays. I don't listen to the outside noise & we have set our plans for the 2027 ODI WC. This is our first preference & then you can decide my future. I have been appointed as the coach of Indian cricket team to make it the best team in the world & we have been one of the most consistent teams in white ball cricket for some time now. We are in a transition phase in red ball cricket, and the team will get better with time".show more