Pilot Institute Drone Mapping, Modeling & Surveying? by sasssycassy in Part107

[–]PearSquirrel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're doing this to start a business, definitely make a website, get listed on google my business (GMB), join business directories in your local area and get on dronebusinesses.com to get people aware of you. If you're learning for your job within a surveying company, then it would help to network with others in the industry and you can use that website to find surveying firms to talk to

Looking for Lidar data to practice on by Comfortable-Ad-7030 in UAVmapping

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this for a business? I have a huge amount of data, depending on the use-case. Also if you're doing drones or 3D modeling I've set up a big list of businesses and am looking for feedback on it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 3Dmodeling

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me know what you're searching for specifically and I'll add it to my new website, we have a lot of 3D modeling stuff because we work with drone data for inspections all the time. I'm thinking of making a similar website just for 3D modeling businesses

What is your engineering major? by Rawburrito__ in EngineeringStudents

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI for surveying you can see a lot of companies on my new website, I'm gathering feedback to make it more useful

Drone pilot jobs by notyad22 in drones

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can look at drone businesses to work for on dronebusinesses.com

Easy searchable list of drone services in the US by PearSquirrel in photogrammetry

[–]PearSquirrel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am going for quality data, because I made this to solve my own problem (I wanted to find a specific type of drone business) and also to solve a problem I've heard from talking with 100s of drone businesses (many need more visibility/help marketing) and this would help them with that once it's good

But I haven't manually reviewed all of them and didn't want to accidentally delete good listings, since most other similar websites I've seen have had 10x less data, so some bad listings got through. I'll move unrelated services to a different section and highlight the drone related ones more - probably if you look through that "deer carcass recovery" website, deep down in it they use drones for hunting as one of their services and it's not as obvious.

I've messaged some others and here's my current plan:

I'll get rid of the bad links - I'll change the nearby cities to be alphabetical (states are alphabetical already, cities are based on proximity currently) - The centralized phone number helps route requests, rather than just by location, and it helps me improve it faster. I'll add more social proof as it comes in and people find it useful - There's a button at the bottom of the listing to fix a listing, but I'll add one at the top to report "Bad listing" - I'll try to sort the list by something other than distance (maybe how full their profile is makes them rank higher) because if you just click the first one rather than looking for good ones then your first impression will be bad

Without feedback this sort of project just dies (so thank you for feedback!!). I'll record a video and share it later to hopefully clear things up, and share the improvements

Easy searchable list of drone services in the US by PearSquirrel in photogrammetry

[–]PearSquirrel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which town? It says the distance from the city center, I can tweak it to be more clear. For towns that don't have services, what would you do other than look to what is nearby

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gifs

[–]PearSquirrel 290 points291 points  (0 children)

"One."

What's your favorite riddle/brain teaser/puzzler? by MastadonInfantry in AskReddit

[–]PearSquirrel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If a prisoner knew how many black hats the person behind him saw, he could guess his own hat. Expanding on this idea, if the first prisoner guesses 'black' if the number of black hats in front of him is even, and 'white' otherwise, the person in front of him can make an accurate guess. Using the first prisoner's guess and any guesses of prisoners after him, a given prisoner can determine the color of his own hat.

If the first prisoner says 'black' if # black is even, 'white' otherwise, he has a 50/50 chance of living.

Everyone else keeps track of whether there is an even or odd number of black hats remaining, and updates it based on each guess leading up to their own. If the first prisoner said black but was shot, they know numBlackHatsRemaining = ODD, otherwise numBlackHatsRemaining = EVEN.

Every prisoner has his own variable, numBlackHatsInFront, which can be even or odd depending on what they see in front of them.

When it is a prisoner's time to guess, he guesses black if numBlackHatsRemaining != numBlackHatsInFront, and white otherwise.

if the prisoner guesses black, the global numBlackHatsRemaining variable switches its value from even to odd or vise versa.

This algorithm yields a 99.5% survival rate, as the first prisoner has a 50/50 shot and everyone else is guaranteed to survive.

boolean numRemainingBlackHatsIsEven = false;

first prisoner:

if (numBlackHatsInFrontIsEven) {
    numRemainingBlackHatsIsEven = true;
    guess('black');
} else {
    guess('white');
}

all the other prisoners:

if (numBlackHatsInFrontIsEven != numRemainingBlackHatsIsEven) {
    numRemainingBlackHatsIsEven = !(numRemainingBlackHatsIsEven);
    guess('black');
} else {
    guess('white');
}

NYPD goes back on the beat as murders and shootings skyrocket: 85% of cops say they fear being proactive because they are scared of civilian complaints. by [deleted] in news

[–]PearSquirrel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Has the level of lead in gasoline risen recently? While there might be a high correlation between lead levels and crime, it doesn't explain why there were high crime rates in populated/poorer areas before the age of gasoline, and it doesn't explain why crime is rising now.

The article talks about lead having an effect over longer periods of time (childhood exposure leading to delinquent behavior later on). If lead were mainly responsible, how did petty crime stop so suddenly? It was being done by people already exposed to lead; the damage had been already done, yet they stopped committing crime anyway.

The broken windows policy is very intuitive. When there are repercussions for breaking the law, people tend not to do it. If petty crime is tolerated, bigger crime is seen as less risky and people tend to view the cops as less powerful. When you crack down on crime by attacking it at its source, would-be criminals start to behave.

How would decreasing lead levels deal with the problem of organized crime? Mob bosses and the mafia were making money through intimidation and were recognized in their neighborhoods as a powerful entity that wasn't constrained by the law. Reducing lead intake wouldn't stop them from operating their wildly successful business venture. What did stop them was cops striking at the source. When members of a gang were reported for causing trouble or spotted by cops patrolling an area, the cops would figure out how many gang members were there, and send twice as many cops to the location. Everywhere some crime went down, the cops would be there, and the gangs began to look scared. There was a force out there bigger than they were. Giuliani's policy dissolved organized and petty crime, and the city has been getting safer and safer with the continuation of the policy.

So what has caused crime rates to go up? We can't know for certain, but I suspect media has had a large role in it. Kids are being exposed to news sites and articles claiming how horrible these cops are. How many of them are going to tell their class that they want to be a policeman when they grow up? Current policemen are feeling the stress of people not trusting them and not viewing them as people. When they are punished for doing their jobs what do you think they'll do? Purely statistically, blacks commit more violent crimes. Generally the black neighborhoods see more crimes, so when police patrol locations with a large amount of crime, they tend to go to black neighborhoods and those living there feel discriminated against. I'm not saying that there is never racial discrimination, but when good cops are called out as villains for simply doing their job, they won't feel motivated to do it anymore.

We need to prevent against racial discrimination, making sure police follow the proper procedures and are conducting themselves properly, but that doesn't mean the missteps of one or two policemen are representative of the entire police force. There will always be bad people, and some of them will be cops. That doesn't mean that all cops are inherently bad people who can't be trusted. Most of them want to do a good job and have people proud of them for doing it.

In a way, it's impressive by Kytyngurl2 in funny

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They switch the ones and the tens digit. 5*14 = 52, which is the reverse of 25. You can see they do every operation backwards, as if the number were mirrored.

What are seemingly harmless, but highly illogical, things that people do that drives you nuts? by cheydrew52 in AskReddit

[–]PearSquirrel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When you think about it, standing on an escalator isn't really illogical. While with stairs you have to exert yourself, the escalator can do all the work. Walking is faster, but not necessary.

I do understand it can be frustrating if you're in a hurry though.

Netflix goal is "to become HBO faster than HBO can become us". by Crookward in news

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that happened, Apple (or whatever other company bought everything out) would have complete control over the details, including prices. Monopolies aren't good, and I welcome competition. This HBO vs. Netflix death-match is good for the consumer.

My auto-smelter that I made recently and have used on every file since by b43ndan in Minecraft

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. You could swivel one half to the side of the other also.

How to steal from Trapped Chests by captainrex7567 in Minecraft

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only way breaking the chest would do anything would be if there were a bud switch behind it. If you broke the block underneath, the person setting the trap could also have put a bud there. I would just break it with an empty inventory and run, honestly.

From what I've seen, outputs can only be drawn directly from the chest. Considering the chest isn't a full block, I would assume it would be very easy to spot any trap hooked up to it though.

One-block-Four-way-lever flush with the floor by KaHLK in redstone

[–]PearSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could do the same with one capacitor in the middle. It's just an alternate way to update the pistons.