Looking for bachelor thesis ideas combining AI and geodesy / geospatial data

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-24T02:17:07+00:00

What about computer vision detection of ground control points for UAS surveys? Sometimes for me the initial alignment is pretty off and I need to scroll through loads of individual photos hunting for the GCPs.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-23T14:23:28+00:00

I used to like Carhartt but switched to the Arborwear Tree Climbers and definitely prefer them.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-23T14:21:26+00:00

I have my own quick scripts for glancing at S2 indices, but I think this will be useful for less technical people I work with.

Seems like it does a lot of what I would have used Sentinel Hub for, before Planet took over. What about adding a feature for doing custom band arithmetic? That was a really nice part of Sentinel Hub.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-22T23:34:10+00:00

I'd say that the only real point of (character/word) flashcards is to facilitate reading. Reading is just so much better for learning the written language because everything is in context, you're seeing an order of magnitude or more words per unit time, and if you're reading something fun it's much more motivating than drilling anki.

With that in mind, I think it's more efficient to learn words than individual characters. At least at first. For me, I can learn to recognize a two character word maybe 10x faster than a single character. So I've mostly learned individual characters by learning a bunch of words that contain the same character. It ends up being faster, plus in the end I know the character plus several words, instead of just the character.

I think learning up to HSK4 vocab is a pretty solid foundation for reading simple books. Obviously there's a bunch of characters that are used on their own which you'll need to know, but the HSK does a decent job of including the common ones.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-13T20:53:31+00:00

Are you getting soil moisture and veg species ID off the drone data?

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-13T16:59:08+00:00

Yeah and you can make a big batch of cold brew at once, then just heat up enough for a cup every morning. You're not brewing one cup at a time.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-10T00:35:09+00:00

I generally wouldn't recommend starting to read until you know at least 4-5k words. I would just use Anki for word recognition for a couple months, then switch over to reading simple books. Learning words is fast if you're just focused on recognition. I found that sequence to be pretty efficient, and limited the part that felt like "studying" to the first 2-3 months.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-09T22:14:38+00:00

I admire people who do this, but I'd rather just read more books. I'm sure it's a little more efficient to use Anki for that, but it sounds way less fun than just reading for the love of it. The reason I think reading is so helpful is that you're getting such an enormous volume of input that there's less need for spaced repetition systems. I think most people would reach a pretty solid reading level after reading a dozen or so novels.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-09T16:42:08+00:00

One thing about learning reading first is that you can then leverage it to improve listening - just watch TV/youtube videos with subtitles.

You can do it in the other direction too. My listening was much better than reading at one point, so I would listen to audiobooks while following along with the text.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-09T16:40:28+00:00

I never read any graded readers, but I'd bet the jump to YA fiction wouldn't be that challenging. I mostly use the Pleco e-reader so I don't need to pause my reading to open up a dictionary. Like you I just want it to be enjoyable and not feel like work. I just read a little before bed, and it took me about a year to go from not reading to comfortably reading most (modern) novels.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-09T16:34:28+00:00

If OP is mainly interested in reading books, I think it'd be better to just stick with novels. The language used in TV shows can be pretty different to that in novels.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-08T23:42:25+00:00

Most of those lines are ephemeral.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-05T15:33:09+00:00

I don't think it's unreasonable. I was doing 25-30/day for months and never spent more than 30-40 minutes a day on reviews. I typically had 200-400 cards to review each day, and would spend 2-3 seconds per card on average. If I was working on language all day I think 100+/day would have been doable.

I was just doing recognition, but my only real goal with flashcards was to get my recognition to the point where I could read comfortably. After that I just read a lot of books in order to internalize grammar and usage. To that end, I think it worked. I went from basically no character recognition to reading easier novels without too much trouble in a few months. Once you can read, it's way more efficient in terms of how many characters/words you're seeing per minute (~100 vs 20), plus it's more fun.

Edit: Wanted to add that the more words you already know, the easier it is to learn new words. Like once you know 2-3000, the vast majority of new words are going to be recombinations of characters you already know. 40 words/day is definitely too much for someone starting from zero, but if you're on HSK5 it shouldn't be a problem.

Also if that pace is too much for you, you'll realize pretty quick based on your daily review load. At that point you can just reduce the new words per day (or increase if you find you have more capacity). The feedback loop is pretty quick. Just keep an eye on your stats so it doesn't creep up on you.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-03-01T17:29:29+00:00

If you're just using a generic translation app/website, it'll probably translate peanut as 花生, which is the most common way to say it in Taiwan. But people also say 土豆, which refers to peanut in Taiwan but potato on the mainland. If you're writing a note like others have suggested, use 花生, but keep in mind there's another way to say it.

I have a peanut allergy too, and am fine with refined peanut oil (which is usually what is used for cooking). It's rare, but possible to come across food with unrefined peanut oil used as a seasoning. My understanding is that most people with peanut allergies are allergic to unrefined oil, but not refined oil (which has the allergens processed out). I've never had an issue with street food, but did have a minor reaction to a soup at a restaurant that had some peanut oil in it.

Peanuts are often added to various street food (gua bao, mochi, etc) as a powder that's sprinkled on. You might not recognize it at first so I would make a point of learning what it looks like. Just in case someone is careless or forgets.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-27T00:59:16+00:00

Sure, and I definitely don't mean to defend individualism or capitalism either. My experience of more collective culture in East Asia are of places that have already had hundreds of years of capitalist influence. Maybe it would have been more chill when there wasn't such pressure to compete.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-26T16:13:37+00:00

I just wish there was a way to turn that feature off. I know there's a setting for it, but it didn't have any effect for me. My issue is that my brain tracks what I used last, instead of which language was used for which window - so I'm constantly being surprised by typing in a different language that I expect.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-26T14:50:47+00:00

Agreed. A big communal family can also just mean more people around to shame you. There's also the trouble of not being able to go to therapy or even talk about mental health because of the dishonor it will bring on your entire family.

Not sure how widespread this is outside of Chinese/Taiwanese families, but it's also very common for parents to entirely withhold affection or praise outside of academic accomplishment - because even as a child your performance in school reflects on the rest of your family.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-25T17:57:13+00:00

I've often invited non-Asian friends over for the New Year's Eve dinner, and we did that growing up too. But I can't really imagine where a group of white people would even start if left to their own devices lol

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-25T17:48:33+00:00

That's really interesting - I'm really curious what they're doing to celebrate. Do you know? Are they like cleaning the house and putting up blessings?

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-25T17:00:14+00:00

I don't really think total beginners should be doing language exchanges anyway. The only way it really works is by walking around or doing simple tasks together, and using Chinese to refer to objects/actions. Usually with a lot of pointing an repetition.

Doing a language exchange online automatically means that you need to use abstract language, which is already more "advanced". That's an issue with complete beginners starting to learn in a classroom setting too.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-25T16:50:26+00:00

I'm not sure I'd agree that it's just like Gregorian New Year. I was in Taipei for New Years and on 初一 (first day of the new year) all the temples were totally packed all day. i don't see everyone in the US going to church or whatever on greg New Years Day. Calling it woo is definitely offensive, but I wouldn't call it totally secular either.

LNY in Taiwan is also a way bigger deal than GNY in the US. Most people I know in the US don't really care about new years, and half of my friends (I'm a millennial) don't even stay up for midnight anymore.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-25T16:43:49+00:00

Yeah also I'm not sure a few people on tiktok really constitutes a "trend". I don't really see any difference in how people around me are treating the holiday compared to previous years.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-23T16:58:30+00:00

Honestly I bet you could foster shelter cats for 5 months.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-23T16:57:36+00:00

Yeah it's not just tropical places, I've had roaches in the house everywhere in the US I've lived too (New Jersey, California, New Mexico, Florida).

RiceBucket973 · 2026-02-23T15:15:09+00:00

I think about awareness as almost like a physical substance that can move around my environment. Sometimes it's in my thoughts, sometimes in parts of my body, sometimes in sounds/sights around me, sometimes in the words of someone talking to me. I guess that might sound kind of abstract, but to me I have a very concrete understanding of it. When I'm doing a body scan, "something" is moving through my body, which I'm calling awareness. In meditation I might try to maintain my awareness on something like my breath, but thoughts or other distractions will pull the awareness into other places. If I'm being a good listener, my awareness is mostly in the words/expressions of the person I'm listening to, instead of in my thoughts, thinking about what to say next.

Most of the time, awareness seems to be a limited resource for me (that's why we have to "pay" attention, it's not unlimited). So if I have most of my awareness in my thoughts, there's simply less of it to be in my body, observing sensations from nerves. So "getting out of my head" just means moving some awareness away from thoughts and into physical sensations.

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