The best non-technical way I've came up with over the years to help illustrate the difference between Little Endian and Big Endian involves a simple Classroom exercise. If you'e still teaching (I don't know if you've retired yet, or semi-retired and just substitute, or whatnot), the next time you go into a computer classroom, ask your students to stand up and count to 5 on their fingers.
The vast majority will start with their right index finger, then their right middle finger, and so on...
But there'll be two kids in the class who start with the left index finger, then left middle finger, and so on...
And then there's always that one kid in class who holds up his leg, then points his ankle towards the ceiling....
Right-handed people vs left-handed people vs propitary software.
None are particularly *wrong*, but if you want your video recognition software to understand what they're counting, then you have to set it up to read and understand it in the format that those users provide the data. (And that's why APPLE's stuff is such a PITA to work with. Steve Jobs was that oddball leg-raising guy who had his own properitary way of trying to do everything. )
The vast majority will start with their right index finger, then their right middle finger, and so on...
But there'll be two kids in the class who start with the left index finger, then left middle finger, and so on...
And then there's always that one kid in class who holds up his leg, then points his ankle towards the ceiling....
Right-handed people vs left-handed people vs propitary software.
None are particularly *wrong*, but if you want your video recognition software to understand what they're counting, then you have to set it up to read and understand it in the format that those users provide the data. (And that's why APPLE's stuff is such a PITA to work with. Steve Jobs was that oddball leg-raising guy who had his own properitary way of trying to do everything.
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