Ready to go
The handouts for the seminar on the 14th have been sent out for printing. Now we can take a break. After all, 415 people have pre-registered. I am happy to hear that, but standing room only is inevitable, and it is expected to be quite crowded. (I heard that the venue has been expanded since the last [...])
I don't know if I should be happy about this...
We have received the current number of registrations for your seminar at the Sensing in Imaging Expo. --- We are pleased to inform you of the number of registrations for your company's seminar at the Image Sensing Expo 2019 until 23:59 on Monday, May 27, 2019. The materials will be distributed [...].
2019 Image Sensing Expo Seminar
WE WILL BE CONDUCTING A SEMINAR AT THE IMAGE SENSING EXPO (PACIFICO YOKOHAMA) ON 2019.6.14. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ATTENDING OUR SEMINAR LAST YEAR. THIS YEAR, WE WILL HAVE "POPULAR AI" AND "KEYNOTE SPEECH" IN THE SAME TIME SLOT, AND WE WILL HAVE A "HUNCH [...]...
Company Direction
We were established in July 1999, so this July will mark our 20th anniversary. We have been doing things very slowly, so the scale of our business is still small, but thanks to your support, we have been able to generate a reasonable amount of profit. I myself am over 50 years old, and this timing [...].
randroid
The news that the developer went bankrupt... I thought it was too amazing to challenge a ridiculously difficult technology and release it for less than 2 million dollars, and at the same time, I thought, "If this sells, I will have to rethink my way of thinking. Laundry folding [...].
Most Disgusting
Engineers working hard in the field not being rewarded Getting a job? To get work? To get funding? I feel that information is running out of control in relation to reality. Is the gap between information and reality being driven out of control?
What are true needs?
We should not simply think of "what users want" = "needs. The true needs are those things that users can add value to by obtaining them. In today's labor-shortage environment, the "automation of visual inspection" is an unusually loud "I want to do it" [...].
EVEN IF IT'S NOT AI.
I'VE BEEN ABLE TO SORT OUT ONLY GOOD PRODUCTS BY REGISTERING DOZENS OF GOOD PRODUCTS... FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS NOW. THE HARD PART IS THE ONES THAT HAVE A LARGE VARIATION OF GOOD PRODUCTS AND THE LINE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD IS BLURRED. I UNDERSTAND AI THERE, BUT THE BASIS OF QUALITY IS TO ELIMINATE THE VARIATION OF GOOD PRODUCTS [...].
Climb a mountain you can climb
When you look at newspapers, you will read about various technologies as if they have reached a practical level. Of course, I don't think that all of them are like that, but when an unrealizable technology is announced in the newspapers as "completed," the engineers in charge of the [...]...
Significance of Automation
Automation" and "robotization" are all the rage. After many years of struggling to automate visual inspection, here is what I have come up with. Automation used to be about doing things that people couldn't do. Or, to do better what a person can do. That is the meaning of [...].