{"id":4694,"slug":"computer-vision","name":"computer vision","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T23:21:33.883046+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"f7987aec-779b-40be-8895-d964cec36f2a","slug":"s3e15-cheap-portable-shareable-video-has","subject":"s13e15: Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think","title":"Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think","publish_date":"2022-10-26T16:20:36.385000+00:00","year":2022,"month":10,"season":13,"episode":15,"episode_label":"s13e15","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s3e15-cheap-portable-shareable-video-has/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1795,"context":" … One approach you might take to \"the problem of physio\" and \"using computers these days\" might be \"oh wow, you could use <mark>computer vision</mark> and inverse kinematics to … 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