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0 pointsdaveslash3y ago0 comments

Seriously. We're soooo over 1-d barcodes. Need to get a QR code on all that stuff. MMmmmmm.... Fiducial markers - that's hot

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mikrl3y ago

brb patenting higher dimensional barcodes / tensor barcodes

Finally, we can use holograms for something mundane!

marginalia_nu3y ago

Pretty neat. You can encode 100 megabytes of data in a 4x4x4x4 cm tesseract, just need to apply an appropriate rotation around two of its axes and then you can extract the information as it intersects with 3d space.

mikrl3y ago

That adds an additional temporal component to the scanning process which makes me hesitant.

However, the idea is ridiculous enough to greenlight.

smitty1e3y ago

Just go full panopticon with a thousand cameras, so that the looters don't need to put in all that selfie effort.

colejohnson663y ago

That’s Amazon Go.

Gigachad3y ago

They usually use 2D barcodes for weighed items at the deli.

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mikrl3y ago

brb patenting higher dimensional barcodes / tensor barcodes

Finally, we can use holograms for something mundane!

marginalia_nu3y ago

mikrl3y ago

That adds an additional temporal component to the scanning process which makes me hesitant.

However, the idea is ridiculous enough to greenlight.

smitty1e3y ago

Just go full panopticon with a thousand cameras, so that the looters don't need to put in all that selfie effort.

colejohnson663y ago

That’s Amazon Go.

Gigachad3y ago

They usually use 2D barcodes for weighed items at the deli.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse