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Today’s tutorial kicks off a new series of blog posts on object tracking, arguably one of the most requested topics here on PyImageSearch. Object tracking is the process of: Taking an initial set of object detections (such as an input set of bounding box coordinates) Creating a unique ID for each of the initial detections And then tracking each of the objects as they move around frames in a video, maintaining the assignment of unique IDs

Source: Simple object tracking with OpenCV – PyImageSearch

Some good advice on how to succeed at work.

 
Focus directs your energy toward your goals. The more focused you are, the more energy goes toward what you’re working on. Eliminating things that you care about is hard. You have to make tradeoffs. If you can’t make those tradeoffs, you’re not going to get far. The cost of not being focused is high.

Source: Smarter, Not Harder: How to Succeed at Work

Book marking for later

Books worth reading

The Art of Gathering, by Priya Parker. A long overdue and urgent manifesto for anyone who has the temerity (and generosity) to organize the time and energy of a team in order to call a meeting.
The Artist’s Journey, the latest from Steve Pressfield, an essential compass, road map and kick in the pants.
Coming soon, the much anticipated Eat Their Lunch from Anthony Iannarino.
Full House, twenty years old, from Stephen Jay Gould, about variation, evolution and of course, Ted Williams.
Tom Peters’ latest: The Excellence Dividend, is classic Tom on every page.
Chasing Space, by Leland Melvin is a memoir from a real hero.
Annie Duke knows how to make decisions. You should too.
The Heart to Start is solid advice from David Kadavy. It’s not too late.
Scott McCloud‘s classic book on comics will change the way you see.
Fresh India, by Meera Sodha, is the book I’m cooking from the most lately. And everyone who eats should own a copy of The Food Lab.
And if you haven’t read Your Turn, today’s a great day to leap.

Source: Books worth reading | Seth’s Blog

“The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.” — Georges St. Pierre

The first lesson? An ERP implementation cannot last seven years. The pace of change has accelerated in many industries, retail and disrtibution is not immune. ERP Systems have to cope with the pace of change. Customizations should be avoided as far as possible, leveraging built-in best practices that are now part of modern ERP Cloud Systems. Flexibility to adapt to a changing environment is mandatory for companies, and this requires agility. Implementations should require months (perhaps 12-18 months in co

Source: (9) Lidl cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro and seven years | LinkedIn

While the answer isn’t cut and dry, I’ve noticed an interesting mindset difference between these two groups: they approach obstacles and challenges very differently. The first group approaches life with an open mind — an eagerness to learn and a willingness to be wrong. The second group digs their heels in at the first sign of disagreement and would rather die than be wrong. The way each group approaches obstacles, it turns out, defines much of what separates them. So which group are you in?

Source: The Difference Between Open-Minded and Closed-Minded People

This speech is about taking responsibility for your happiness and your life-situation. When you blame others, you give away your power and you become a victim who is at effect to bad things happening to you. But when you Take Responsibility, you now have the power to take charge, take control, and create a better life. “It really doesn’t matter whose fault it is that something is broken. It’s your responsibility to fix it.” -Will Smith

Kernighan supplies some crucial context — in the form of a story. Their colleague Lee McMahon had wanted to study the Federalist papers, which were written by several different authors (including Alexander Hamilton) but published under the same pseudonym, carefully analyzing the text for clues about their original authors by finding all the occurrences of specific words and phrases. Unfortunately, a plaintext version of the collection was one megabyte — “down in the noise by today’s standard,” but at the ti

Source: Brian Kernighan Remembers the Origins of ‘grep’ – The New Stack

Wow. I have had a feeling for this. Secularisation in a micro level forces people to confront their reality and own up to their situation.  This has a tendency to create doers.

“Very often secularisation is indeed accompanied by a greater tolerance of homosexuality, abortion, divorce etc. But that isn’t to say that religious countries can’t become prosperous. Religious institutions need to find their own way of modernising and respecting the rights of individuals.” Alex Bentley from the University of Tennessee, added: “Over the course of the 20th century, changes in importance of religious practices appear to have predicted changes in GDP across the world. This doesn’t necessaril
Source: Claims about secularization and economic growth – Marginal REVOLUTION

The post-Olympiad loss is not the largest loss. Most of the potentially great mathematicians from poorer countries are lost to the world long before the opportunity to participate in an Olympiad. But it is frustrating that even after talent has been identified, it does not always bloom. We are, however, starting to do better. You can see from the graph that upper-middle income countries are as good as turning their talent into results as high-income countries. Agarwal and Gaule also find some evidence that

Source: The Misallocation of International Math Talent – Marginal REVOLUTION