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His bird camera pipeline spots birds every 2 minutes but misses the far ones

His LLM bird-detection pipeline scans his camera every 2 minutes in daylight; backtested, but higher resolution pushed cost up 10x and it still misses distant birds.

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How it works

  1. His LLM bird-detection pipeline scans the camera every 2 minutes in daylight
  2. Backtests well
  3. Higher resolution pushes the cost up 10 times
  4. It still misses distant birds

Why it’s worth knowing

Ten times the cost for sharper pictures is the trade nobody warns you about.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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