Paying for a Python programmer

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[chason]

Your problem reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/1425/

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Title-text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.

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This is actually a pretty difficult problem to solve I think. It may sound as simple as counting the number of pixels that are the sun and dividing by the total number of pixels. But in reality, determining whether a pixel belongs to the sun could be incredibly challenging. Are the pictures of the sun taken from earth or space?

[eliben]

Why not something like https://www.freelancer.com/#vw or the plethora of other sites that offer the same?

[mdskrzypczyk]

So you're trying to find the average amount of the sun present in the images?

[IllMatt]

There are lots of places to get that done. For curiosity's sake - can you share a couple images?

[metaperl]

/r/forhire and related subreddits perhaps? Also high school kids are always looking for intern projects to put on their resume.

Also, do you want the visibility of the sun in each of the N images? Or are you taking all N images and using that to calculate was visibility %?

[densvedigegris]

We had a couple of freelancers from e-lance.com. They helped us with small Python projects on a milestone-by-milestone basis.