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bgr
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I don't know if many are aware but PSA has their own API which you can use with a token you create in your account. I still don't know why PSA doesn't have a grade stream feature but I had built my own and it ticks away day after day capturing new cards graded.
Never seen this card before.
This would be amazing with a triple signature.
I don't have the right images with the right light to do proper image analysis for grading, but it's fun to see what you see and that card was flagged for a corner anomaly.
Here are the corners. One of these looks a little funky right?
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Thats funny, I was looking at this today and was pleasantly surprised it was available. I’m building my own app to track my collection and am going to pull in images and pop data. Limit of 100 calls per day but for my purposes thats fine.
Like your use case, that would be fun to watch trickle out.
Now I wish I could get access to Gemrates API, they have all tpg’s API’s consolidated and can present some interesting data.
Who or what determines/defines what funky is? Maybe I will do that for every collector on this planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yowza
Pattern and probability. The model decides what different is. You might want to lurk back into that bush cause this is a fight you’re not prepared for.
hmmm... Ok so pattern and probability are man/human created concepts or discovered concepts/truisms that some math genius tells the other humans this is the way??? Well I got news for you:
The you new verse of existence between
destiny and perfection is measured by numbers
like 1+1=2
This first combination of numbers produces
a number that is not a number that can be
produced by a number multiplied by a number
equal to the number that is multiplied nor is
this number that is the sum of 1+1 a
number that can be divided by a number
into a number equal to the number that
divided this number
The resultant inadequacy of numbers to equate
to reality must be recompensated with poetry.
So using mathematical, algorithms, probabilities, patterns etc. to asses the condition of a card is inherently flawed
and yes the planet's collectors can hire me to grade their cards...
That the square root of 2 is an irrational number seems quite irrelevant to your argument that algorithms are inherently flawed.
"Some numbers are irrational so a statistical model cannot assess wear/centering/corners" could be true; it's not. Either way it's a really fun faux-profundity that numbers can't capture reality.
I'm not providing a service or offering grading to anyone. Perhaps you missed it but I commented that I don't have images with the necessary lighting for accurate grading - detecting anomalies to elevate for human review is kind of the theme.
You haven't even approached the approach of approaching an explanation of these inherent flaws. If only we could all jump from premise to conclusion so easily.
Fair enough... those who tell the better story throughout history, religion and science seem to be that which is accepted among the human race... be careful on AI one day becoming a singularity event or outcome... The end result of Capitalism is all money in the hands of one person or government...Rock on!
I don’t see AI as something that replaces people. I look at AI or any mechanical tooling as an exoskeleton. It amplifies the person - good and bad.
I look at it as something that allows people to avoid more and more mechanical function so they can be focused on what people do best - solving problems and executive function.
I forgot at the moment who said it but I recall an idiom that ML does well what humans do poorly and humans do well at what ML does poorly. There are a lot of fun and interesting problems to solve.
Do you know you’re paraphrasing Karl Marx? He states that inevitability in Das Kapital. It’s one of a few theories referred to as capital concentration. Marx and Lenin used this fear to enforce their doctrine of state planning. I believe capitalism is generally stable and self correcting but prone to collapse or transformation.
AWESOME THOUGHT PROCESS! No I don't know much about Karl Marx's Philosophy but I think either Socrates or Plato once stated after "climbing the mountain of knowledge" he said "Now I know nothing"... GREAT JOB!
We are all somewhere on the Dunning-Kruger curve. I can’t say with any confidence where I am.
Wait, what?????????????
Wow... among other things today the Dunning-Kruger curve is specifically new to me and I find it pretty interesting. I would say you have a large repertoire of nice actual "named conceptual theories" to back up your ideas and discussions... me sometimes not so much though I was pretty good at Nash's equilibrium in MBA school (MBA More Bull$%#& Allowed
). Not pegging yourself on that knowledge curve prolly indicates you are open to new ideas and concepts... Was fun discussions and you Mr. BGR have a great evening and may you find your dream collectible at a local garage sale 
@bgr I am getting an error trying to grab the cert image, it says my account can only make one API call per day. I’ve reached out to PSA but wondering if you encountered this issue?
I have not seen that.
I took the DK curve a bit fast and ended up plunging 30 feet into a ravine.
Strange, PSA just told me their killed the free API tier. @bgr you must have got in before the cutoff.
I have collectors club premium or whatever their luxury tier is so perhaps that gets me the access. Sorry. I read about it and it said it was free for 100 queries. I thought that was nice of them but... fooled me!
Is this like "Deadmans Curve"?
more like regression to the mean
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