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A patent merely says I had the $20k in lawyer fees to make some else's idea my own.

This is exactly why we spent numerous hours deriving formulas to creat metrics such as DSR, CSP, SA, RDL so on so forth (It's quite a very long list and we got tired of writing research papers nobody was reading). Hell, we even analyzed a few games by David Alcaide during a tournament which...

Apple's ML Vision framework is much more advanced than Google's Firebase ML-Kit. Not only is Apple Vision easier to implement, it can track 16 simultaneous objects, whereas the Firebase ML-kit can only handle 5. In other words a max of a 15 ball drill versus a a maximum of a 4 ball drill. Or to...

In my professional opinion, my advice to you is to get into contact with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and see if you can borrow their TEAM 0.5 half an angstrom microscope and count using your fingers and toes the number or electrons it takes to make up the rectangular surface area of...

What you say has zero relevance. Also, we could care less if people take all our ideas. In fact, we find it rather funny. But, to be serious for a moment, the only thing that should have microchips implanted in them are people's brains. That way we can find out who the deviants are.

OLD NEWS. I could swear people just read our posts and claim our ideas as new and theirs.

"Let's play Hi-Lo for ₿1,000. I brought my own deck we can use. You can take my word that the Aces are not marked and the deck is not stacked." Look for a forthcoming paper on the detailed analysis of pattern racking + pattern breaking.

To complement AtLarge's nice stats, we are in the process of compiling a large range of stats of each match of the entire tournament. There are six graphs on each page and one inforgraphic: Players B&R Cumulative Progress of the match, (line chart) Shooting Percentage Line Chart Comparison for...

Not to rehash old things, but this has bugged me for a long time. My only gripe with this is that it will be accurate in alternate break; however, in a winner breaks format, the winner of one rack gains the initiative in the next rack, so the subsequent games are not independent of one another...

Let B(R(X)) be the break shot; where X = (X1,X2,....,X10) is a vector of random variables denoting pool balls 1-10 and R(X) is the psuedorandom order of the balls in the rack (psuedorandom because the one and ten ball are fixed). If R(X) is fixed, then R(X) can be said to be "Pattern Racking"...

Rack Difficulty Level (RDL) This new metric, devised by Pool Stats, tries to understand the inherent complexity of any given rack after the break. It takes into consideration the overall average shot difficulty of a rack for both players and the total number of shots by both players for the...

Theoretically, it's possible given what we know about AI. However, it is no easy task and one person cannot do it. I don't care how much time you have on your hands. Trust me. Our vision is that it will take some new developments in machine learning to get it anywhere around 90% accurate all the...

wut? DeepMind is an essential part of everyday Google Activities now. I'm sure it consists of 100s of the leading AI experts.

We've been working on something since the start of this year that would use machine learning and object tracking to analyze a video of a pool match and generate the correct data that a third party manual inputs into our Pool Stats Pro app. The bottleneck is the break, identifying stripes versus...