Power point to No code

Mastering something with the pressure of time requires

• Quick learning / Quick reading of several views/perspectives
• Building a perspective without coding is really hard
• A big picture without low-level clarity is a big 'No' for me
• For me knowledge, content, and perspective are king, and Presentation is the catalyst

Back to my code territory. A few weeks was low code environment. This paused my satisfaction and struck my dopamine for tech.

Here are a few good reads - link

When I delegate / review

• I reference expectations by sharing past work
• Put forward perspectives with relatable clarity with a draft output
• I care about quality not about time

The ideal place I strive for is code with clarity/understanding with data/guide with genuine intention

Where do I think I am, Where does my Team thinks I belong in reality :)

A learning zone with Safery + Accountability is the best place to work

Ref - Link

Some aspects apply at work :)

Keep Learning!!! Keep Going!!!

Evaluating Tech - Startup Ideas

Top Notes, Highlighted are key perspectives I align to

• Building problems without knowing users. Solution in search of problem
• Madeup problem vs Real problem
• Look for High Quality Problem
• Specify, Tractable
• Tarpit ideas - Common ideas - Widespread ideas - Illusion 
• Google and Validate ideas / Past work / Challenges 
• First idea, Jump without knowing business of it
• Looking for perfect idea
• Do you have a market fit ? Right team of Tech + Domain
• How big is the market ? Growing opportunity ? 
• How acute is problem ? This is a real problem ?
• Credit card for startups ? Unifying all challenges ?
• Do you have competition ? Is it good to have some competition and find new insights ?
• Does somebody need this solution? 
• Is it new tech driven or regulatory change ?
• Background check for blue collar workers ? Do police checks ? Previous employer ? Relationships ?
• Proxies - Look for ideas in other country and check if it applies to your space
• Idea space - Class of closely related ideas (Hospital saas, infra monitoring tools, Fintech Banking Interesection)
• Reasonable hit rate for the idea, How it can pivot to related ideas
• FiveTran developed based on rejections
• Ideas hard to get started, boring space
• Shy away from boring ideas
• Apps to find next restaurant to try
• Apps to find following similar songs
• After sometime writing code / fixing bugs / 6~12 months to see it working
• Notice ideas / organically
• Keep Collecting / Accumulating ideas
• Become an expert in a space / work at startup / observe trends / patterns
• Build on your interesting ideas
• Build idea that best fits team skills
• A good mix of domain + tech + mobile skills makes up a great team
• What problems you have come across, What you observed from your work
• Things you wish existed
• Work to understand inside views / perspectives

Keep Exploring!!!

Impactful Ideas vs Prototypes

• What is the business problem?
• What is the tech choice?
• What tech + differentiation it brings? Saves time? Money? Scale?

From source

• Success = Idea fitment in reality based on learning/implementation in prototype
• Boils down to quality ideas, concrete implementation
• Connecting several working ideas and bringing a breakthrough innovation

Learning, Build, Connect the Learnings!!!

Learning / Selling / Coding

Consulting has multiple hats. Some of the experiences summarizing below :)

• You are with ok with hearing a 'No'
• Source ideas/inspirations from domain/products / what really happing in this space/domain
• Read papers to find connecting dots of learning :)
• Start selling those ideas, Building MVP / Production grade implementation

Getting all three is a challenge - Productive, Gratified, and Satisfied :)

Keep Thinking!!!

Saas - software as a service to Services in SaaS Model

Hoping to see more

• VaaS - vision as a service - Pay per use - Configure - Feed data Get insights 
• DaaS - data analytics as a service - Data to insights, Configure, Explore and get insights
• IaaS - Insights as a service - Generate required KPI customized for domain
• FaaS - Forecasting as a service - Apply Algos, Tune and Pick and run best algos
• RaaS - Recommendations as a service- Apply Algos, Tune and Pick and run best algos

#Saas - software as a service - Let 2022 see more, #VaaS - vision as a service, #DaaS - data analytics as a service, #FaaS - Forecasting as a service, #RaaS - Recommendations as a service 

RetailVisionWorkshop2021 Notes

 Links 

Key Notes

• Physical stores are becoming digital
• Products more easily searcheable
• Better experiences at stores
• Minimize loss of sales

Use cases

• Product Detection Challenges
• Pricing challenges based on data

RetailVisionWorkshop2021 Pricing Challenge - Ehud Barnea

Key Notes

• Price from bounding boxes

• Remove promotion content and read price content

• Country differences
• Winning Solution

Dataset Features

RetailVisionWorkshop2021 - Gang Hua

• 360 degree camera to scan everything in store
• 3D construction of motion structure reconstruction
• Shelf detections in 360 cameras
• Identify Shelf level information
• Optimal robot position to capture shelf images
• Create Digital twin duplicate product

• Assortment planning for online vs offline

06 RetailVisionWorkshop2021 - Sean Bell

Detection, Features, Character Embedding

• Large scale embedding for product recognition

Loss Functions

• Anchor image
• Distances corresponding to same product
• Same vs Different products
• ArcFace Loss
• Every product has centres
• Compare anchors and centres

Combination of Vision + Word Embedding for product categorization

GeM Pooling

• Feature map at top of Network
• Average over spatial dimensions

Product Recognition

07 RetailVisionWorkshop2021 - Aviv Eisenschtat

• Dynamic Shelf Reality
• New Visual designs of products

• Combination of techniques
• Similar products
• Product Category
• Clustering for similar images

Keep Collecting Ideas!!!!

Keep Learning!!!