{"id":6777,"date":"2018-04-03T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:19:14","slug":"not-hot-dog-but-ramen-or-hummus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/not-hot-dog-but-ramen-or-hummus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not Hot Dog&#8221;&#8230; but ramen, or hummus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google had some dorky fun recently with an April Fool\u2019s announcement of a\u00a0Cloud Hummus API:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_5X6N6DHyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Silly, yes\u2014but apparently not as far-fetched as you\u2019d think. Check out computer vision being trained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/topics\/machine-learning\/noodle-machine-learning-can-identify-ramen-shop\/\">identify ramen by shop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Recently, data scientist Kenji Doi used machine learning models and <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/automl\/\">AutoML Vision<\/a> to classify bowls of ramen and identify the exact shop each bowl is made at, out of 41 ramen shops, with 95 percent accuracy. Sounds crazy (also delicious), especially when you see what these bowls look like. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be a data scientist to know how to use it\u2014all you need to do is upload well-labeled images and then click a button. In Kenji\u2019s case, he compiled a set of 48,000 photos of bowls of soup from Ramen Jiro locations, along with labels for each shop, and uploaded them to AutoML Vision.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Days of miracles and wonder\u2026 and ramen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NewImage-3.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0_5X6N6DHyk\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google had some dorky fun recently with an April Fool\u2019s announcement of a\u00a0Cloud Hummus API: Silly, yes\u2014but apparently not as far-fetched as you\u2019d think. Check out computer vision being trained to identify ramen by shop: Recently, data scientist Kenji Doi used machine learning models and AutoML Vision to classify bowls of ramen and identify the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6778,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}