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0 pointsdeepGem6y ago0 comments

This is a pragmatic and valid approach. No matter what anyone else says.

Imagine, you told a 10 YO child to do this task. Even the child would ask the same question - how do I know who is a supervisor and who is not.

Not only is face recognition hard, it is almost impossible to accomplish in a factory floor like setting. Not totally impossible but it is really really hard. Face detection is still possible but face recognition is far more computationally expensive. You'll need a shit ton of data and you'll need access to the employee database. You'll need a whole new engineering pipeline to make this happen and of course a team.

Compared to that expense and time, you are way better off getting the company to approve special vests for supes.

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coredog646y ago

I remember hearing a similar story circa 2003-2008. Some BigCo was spending a bunch of money to automate their inter office mail and was hung up on OCR of handwritten stuff. Some consultants come in to look and one asks if they can just use different color envelopes/baskets. The answer was “yes”.

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0 pointsdeepGem6y ago0 comments

This is a pragmatic and valid approach. No matter what anyone else says.

Imagine, you told a 10 YO child to do this task. Even the child would ask the same question - how do I know who is a supervisor and who is not.

Compared to that expense and time, you are way better off getting the company to approve special vests for supes.

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coredog646y ago

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