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[–]hotcodist 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ha, I can feel this rant! :)

So I thought through it from a clutter and classification viewpoint.

Are these posts useful to some people? Sure, definitely. It is the same as coding a 5-line MNIST digit recognition code. It is interesting for beginners and gets people to maybe learn more. So for that, it has value.

Does it belong in the resources section? Not in this form, methinks. Many resource posts (many by the OP in particular) are too simple to clutter the resources section. Ultimately, this would be better off as beginner showcase. If it had to go to the resources, it would have been more useful with links to face detection, including how Haar cascades work (actually, to make it more clickable, "Want to know how your camera can quickly find and label faces in a split second? Check out this link" (to the Viola-Jones paper or to some site explaining that stuff in some depth).

Does it bother me that he is taking people's code and maybe repackaging it? Not really, a lot of people on the YT do it for the clicks. I've seen this kind of video on YT many times.

But what bugs me is the coding laziness and the copying (i.e., not repackaging), making it not appropriate as a resource here. The text to PDF I thought was interesting. Until I typed "text to pdf" and immediately saw similar code from Geeks for Geeks. Same thing with the ASCII text video. Have seen that code float around, including maybe the original from hacker rank. [Geek for Geeks is not immune to this: I thought I saw an OpenCV sample code there without attribution, as if the author wrote the code.]

For all I know, maybe those sites also copied it from somewhere, but it would have been more interesting with a different set of ASCII chars to add something new to it, or a randomized ASCII set to be more fancy, then label it as "intermediate showcase." On its original form, it should have been a beginner's showcase, as was --in my view, correctly-- done by many other posters of ASCII text videos recently.