In my experience, "founder mode" is when founders intuitively understand what is best for their business and steer clear of cargo cult practices. All too often, professional management falls back on formulaic methods that end up driving businesses into the ground. This post [1] is a great case study of one such instance.
Although the author points out that there's been a "huge amount of writing" on the topic, the issue persists due to the myth of "I have an MBA, therefore I know better." MBA programs often instill in their graduates a misleading confidence in their management abilities, dare-I-say smug arrogance, which, in my experience, frequently leads to the implementation of cargo cult practices [1] with potentially disastrous results.
and some of us find it does a lot more...I have been increasingly relying on ai-generated code...it's been remarkably effective in automating nearly 90%+ of what-i-now-know-to-be tedious, manual tasks.
One of the best advices that I have learned is "take something that people do, and remove a step (or make the step super easy)". Perhaps that provides some fresh perspective on your conundrum.
1. build a yolo based cat detector to detect where yuri is
2. then build an action recognition on video (there are many good action recognition approaches such as videoMAE etc that could be leveraged to detect normal cat activity vs abnormal
activity.
Video recognition may be tough. My dog has epilepsy and some of his seizures are basically him laying very stiffly on the ground for 3 to 6 minutes with relatively minimal shaking. Yuri's seizures may be much more pronounced (I didn't watch the video...), but I'd wager physical measures will be less failure prone. Though both together may provide the best coverage.
> Yuri's seizures may be much more pronounced (I didn't watch the video...)
The seizures in the video are very pronounced, you can’t miss them. But that’s not Yuri, it’s a different cat named Charlie. Though from the OP’s description, their cat may be similar.
They are similar, yes, but they might happen if he's under a table or a bed which makes video tracking really difficult. Someone suggested using a bodycam and that might be an interesting solution, if I can find one that streams video instead of just storing it in an SD card.
[1] https://healthio.notion.site/How-Cargo-Cult-Thinking-Nearly-...
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