Thats a fantastic idea, and yes my goal is to be as descriptive as possible with every item, including country of origin, it just amounts to me putting in the work to do research on every item, Im willing to do it and I hope it can be useful to more users soon!
We're hosting the photos on S3 currently, only around 30K photos currently and the cost of S3 is dependent on how frequently they are accessed (how often users load a specific photo). If I recall correctly our S3 bill last month was around 3 dollars but we don't have very many users. I'm sure its not scalable if we had tons of photos and tons of users but I think I'm just crossing that bridge if I ever get there
Opposite of fast fashion (rapidly created clothing based off catwalk trend mass produced in vast amounts, normally in very poor working conditions, see Primark, H&M, Zara, GAP, Uniqlo, TopShop etc). Cheap, generally fairly low quality, aim is to encourage people to buy more and discard their "old" clothes.
So slow fashion aims to be the opposite, to slow consumerism (sustainable working conditions, materials, emphasis on locality where possible, etc). Obviously more expensive as new clothes removes the mass production [sweatshop] element and uses higher quality materials that won't fail as quickly. As sibling comment says second hand clothes are major part of this
Oh I see, well I definitely see the value in those spaces, Im kind of interested in the idea of archiving anything thats out there so that maybe people can realize all the cool clothes thats already been produced rather than looking to the new stuff thats coming out.
I'm also super interested in visual search - so it might be cool to add a kind of visual search engine to your site where you could upload a pic and it would search your collection for a similar outfit.
Pretty much, except from my experience Pinterest focuses on the image and maybe its source rather than the actual item of clothing and features of that item.
As someone who loves fashion and clothing, I wanted a place (that wasn't a marketplace for once) where I could look at clothes and keep track of stuff that I wanted and owned. The big dream is to have any piece of clothing that exists in the database. Feel free to submit items!
With user submitted (basically my friends and I so far) clothing info and images from other websites. Also an initial webscrape helped us with some initial DB population.
I live in NYC right now, while it is tempting, I'm still pretty young and like being around my friends (who all still live here) and with things opening back up slowly its becoming possible to hang out with people again. Because of this I really see no reason moving. I totally see the value in moving back home and saving an arm and a leg on rent but I guess it just depends on your lifestyle.
I'm in a similar boat, but I've found that most of my friends have moved out, so I'm doing the same.
If that social network was still around I'd likely stay, but it's hard to justify the expense when more of my friends are in one place back in my hometown.
It's all temporary, though—I'm planning on coming back once the city starts to open back up in earnest.
In my experience my professors always referenced Hastie, Tibshirani, Freeman, The Elements of Statistical Learning to be the reference for most of the tasks you would need to perform as a data scientist. For an AI/ML researcher Murphy is probably more comprehensive.
