I just moved and I live literally window to a freight train line, unfortunately it scares the crap out of my cats and so I’m trying to find out what the schedule is so that I can close the windows for them, and maybe put a little raspberry pi display screen saying something like “next train arriving in…” Next to my window

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    3 months ago

    Hey coding nerds, I know you’re nearby, do you think I’d be able to use tensorflow or something to identify an incoming train with this view?

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      3 months ago

      You could, but if this is taken from another window in the same building you’ll likely only get ~10 seconds of warning.

      If you could put a couple cameras a mile or so down each direction on the track you could get an earlier warning system

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        3 months ago

        This is taken from my window, and I’m not sure how I feel about leaving expensive equipment out in a suburban area for anyone to pick up and run off with