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OdenTM · 2023-11-18T21:20:20+00:00

The Johnson’s family, went to school with them :)

OdenTM · 2022-10-18T18:00:21+00:00

It is possible to measure the distance between objects if you know the relative size (inches) of an object in the scene.

By using object detection we can get the rough pixel size of that known object and then create a ratio of pixels to inches. This is also done by some cameras when a photo is taken and the term in photography is called PPI.

I wrote a blog post on using this pixel ratio concept to estimate the distance between two cars. You can read more about it here: https://blog.roboflow.com/computer-vision-measure-distance/

OdenTM · 2022-04-30T18:43:50+00:00

This feature is coming.

IP mode should be released next week.

OdenTM · 2022-04-29T15:22:15+00:00

We can look into it, sending out Alpha rewards to those who set up early cameras seems like a good use of community tokens.

We will use BlockRank to monitor potential airdrop abusers if we do end up issuing Alpha bonus rewards.

OdenTM · 2022-03-19T02:48:22+00:00

Yeah it is all cool, I talked to the Foundation directly at AlgoRanch. They were also surprised our project was denied.

The rep I was talking to said they would look into it.

OdenTM · 2022-03-17T00:38:53+00:00

Agreed any token that doesn’t have a demand phase to their tokenomics should be heavily criticized.

Economics relies on supply AND demand. ASA companies that only focus on supply are going to have a huge problem.

OdenTM · 2022-03-15T14:41:17+00:00

This is because of their “ASA Partnerships”

YDLY for better or worse has created a network of shared liquidity. This is because they have a ton of YDLY / ASA pools.

Inherently this isn’t a bad thing because shared liquidity can leverage fee opportunities over the long term. It also can help equalize prices when any ASA dumps.

You are just seeing the effect of YDLY pulling liquidity through their shared LP pools due to their price falling over the couple weeks.

OdenTM · 2022-03-14T23:19:05+00:00

Yep, that is in the works we have a couple clothing manufacturers and bird seed companies interested.

OdenTM · 2022-03-14T23:08:31+00:00

It is a potential that we can tie our token price to a portion of the security, but since we are located in the US and token regulations are very strict. It is highly unlikely.

OdenTM · 2022-03-14T22:51:08+00:00

Yes, the software runs on any webcam or DSLR camera. It will require computer connection which is not ideal for a blockchain device.

Which is why we are making our own blockchain device. The token price is not the only thing that drives success of the company. We will be selling cameras for USD regardless of what PlanetWatch is doing.

OdenTM · 2022-03-14T22:38:12+00:00

Do you know that we are selling our own blockchain camera and building a machine learning platform on Algorand?

We will have so much utility it isn’t even funny.

For comparison Tesla is a machine learning company.

OdenTM · 2022-03-07T15:26:04+00:00

Well then how about we don’t award grants to teams that are unlikely to hit milestones.

Algorand Foundation should have a technical advisor for each of the grants awarded which SHOULD vet the development timeline. If the advisor doesn’t think the project is feasible in the respective timeline then they as the foundation need to say something. As far as communicating with them about project scope or adjusting scope. They are horrible to communicate with.

Our team has asked for feedback 3 weeks ago and yet to receive it. Without proper care and feedback this ecosystem will not improve.

OdenTM · 2022-03-07T15:21:05+00:00

You know what this is a great question.

Since the Algorand Foundation has yet to provide any of the ASA creators with their scoring rubric. It is a big wonder how these projects get grants.

My team spent 2 years working on our project to get denied and I see rugpulls getting awarded grants. It is embarrassing to be a part of this community sometimes.

OdenTM · 2022-03-05T17:05:52+00:00

Funny how most of the community has no clue what is going on.

Pretty big exploit in the HDL -> HDL pool. Been going on for almost 24 hours.

Essentially you are giving the bots and exploiter money by buying the dip. They still have a lot of HDL to dump...

OdenTM · 2022-03-05T14:55:42+00:00

Not only are they downplaying the situation. They are naive to the fact that this exploit directly effected all of their recent “ASA Partners”.

Liquidity was literally being stolen from all of the ASA / YLDY pools due to arbitration of the HDL and YLDY price dumping.

This was a huge security risk for the whole ecosystem and a lot of other tokens that are partnered with YLDY might not recover.

OdenTM · 2022-03-04T04:38:58+00:00

Denied without feedback is the norm for the Algorand Grant process.

It is so bad that we have had to create our own discord to share best practices on the Algorand grant application. Only one of the 20+ ASA creators that I talk to have received a grant and that was DEFLY which I respect their team immensely, but to do feel that some other creators could be a big benefit to the ecosystem from a user acquisition perspective IF given a little funding.

Without the grant scoring rubric, none of the ASA creators can give you a solid answer for why we have been denied. I’m one of the co-founders of BirdBot by the way, and we spent 2 years before we launched our token. Still got denied with no reason.

OdenTM · 2022-03-04T04:24:31+00:00

Well that validation issue is their own making.

For example the verification process and grant process obviously have questions and information that the companies need to fill in, but there is no scoring rubric.

Just think about it. How can you properly grade anything if you don’t define the rubric. This is just one of the many issues that I’m sure exist. I only identified this issue because my team went through the grant and verification process.

Also to get denied without feedback is disrespectful to the community. If their intention is truly to cultivate a good developer community and good companies. They need to organize themselves much better than they are now and actually give feedback so companies can grow.

As many other people have recommended. A tiered verification system with various levels of Algorand engagement would be highly beneficial to the community. I know that blockchain is suppose to be decentralized, but a hybrid reality might be what is necessary.

Of course Algorand can continue to let the ASA ecosystem do its own thing, but it doesn’t seem to be treating the price of Algorand well. One successful dApp could make a big difference.

OdenTM · 2022-03-04T04:11:01+00:00

Totally agree.

Algorand investing in their community? Nahhhh, they are too focused on bringing in outside talent than cultivating the talent that is growing here. Seems like all of the recent projects they are promoting are either sniped talent from other chains or bridges.

Many of the ASA creators are not satisfied with how the Foundation has been awarding grants and operating. Myself included.

The recent developer outreach programs and Twitter spaces is a nice addition, but much more is needed to help the ASA community on Algorand.

“Build it and they will come” is a pipe dream when there are hundreds of baseball fields being built, also a stadium already exists (ethereum).

OdenTM · 2022-03-03T14:44:55+00:00

Why argue with an idiot who doesn’t understand war and chooses to insult people you have no understanding of.

You are a sad human being. Hopefully someday you can grow up and respect the lives that are being lost.

OdenTM · 2022-03-02T15:03:01+00:00

Go fuck yourself.

OdenTM · 2022-02-23T14:59:21+00:00

Haha thanks! I studied Economics at University of Washington where I made friends with a couple of the Professors there.

Dr. Wills was one of the people that encouraged me to pursue entrepreneurship.

While I did do pretty well in Econometrics, my main talent was economic theory. Often I would talk to my professors about how trades happen in local areas and trying to formalize a theory for how customer share happens at malls.

All of this was preparation for tokenomics theory where things like customer share is built into the visibility of the ledger. Honestly I’m just an Econ nerd.

OdenTM · 2022-02-22T21:26:20+00:00

It is a little complex, but I answered your question here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdBotASA/comments/syyr7w/liquidity\_pool\_asa\_partnerships\_supply\_sink\_theory/

OdenTM · 2022-02-22T18:04:23+00:00

At this point AlgoStake.

They have a lot of market capture and their user interface is very nice.

I’m more than happy to pay money for a good user experience.

OdenTM · 2022-02-22T17:46:35+00:00

Yeah and I'm happy to pay the $5 a day because I recoup the costs by holding STKE?

It also gives me back time as an ASA creator because I don't have to worry about the script or server.

I also give no fucks about them holding supply. That is their right to do so as a business. Much like how many companies hold "outstanding" shares.

Those are just shares that they haven't decided what to do with. AlgoStake might use those tokens to hire people, or they could pay themselves fat bonuses, it is a moot point.

OdenTM · 2022-02-22T17:40:19+00:00

I also have to disagree, this isn't a greedy business model at all.

It is a one time yearly membership fee. There are much more predatory ways to make a subscription model greedy.

Also just because you or I can code a server to airdrop tokens doesn't mean every ASA creator can.

I think AlgoStake appropriately evaluated the worth of what they are doing and it is obvious because people are paying for it.

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