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by mtejo 973 days ago
Hah I never have a thing to show off.... yay unemployment?

I made a little thing to count and track how many people are surfing on surfline's webcams to learn a bit about ml/ai, computer vision and deploying these things. I think its neat, and the data is fun in a nerdy way. Not sure what to do with it now. Its been cool, I had to get my own dataset together for it to work.

Check it out at and click around dp52hy5y2zsyt.cloudfront.net

I haven't committed enough to it to buy a domain.

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This is really cool. Maybe you could collect the data and make a predictor for how many surfers will show up at a given spot at any point of time during the day. You could record past numbers as well as other factors like weather, time of day, amount of sunlight, etc, and have the model adjust its predictions based on those factors automatically
Thanks for checking it out! I think with a lot of good data there is some cool stuff like that you could figure out. There is a pretty busy spot, that is fun but a bit of a trek. I wanted to find out for my self when the best time to go there might be. Turns out the camera might be to low res.