A lot of good work by Cynthia Rudin http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/big.2014.0021 and her tools are open sourced (her papers https://users.cs.duke.edu/~cynthia/papers.html and tools https://users.cs.duke.edu/~cynthia/code.html)
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This is NOT what the designer would search as they most likely do NOT speak English (Chinese made from earlier research above of the ball manufactuer)
Me getting into the shoes of the designer: Assumptions: The designer is in a hurry.
They would search in their language which I found via google translate is https://www.dropbox.com/s/h585tt6fwcb0x54/Screenshot%202017-...
斧头
So my next google search is
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=clipart+%E6%96%A7%E5%A4%B4
I looked at the images and in the top right I saw IT... and began to tremble as it was right there....
The Original (bottom right in my screenshot) The Found Ball (top right) And THE IMAGE that was used: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oho6qtlyja7quaq/Screenshot%202017-...
The google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=clipart+斧头&tbm=isch&imgil=ay...:
Thanks for the all the help along the way
PLEASE POST THIS TO THE ORIGINAL SITE AS I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH POINTS: Here is my profile (old pic :) ) https://english.stackexchange.com/users/243437/thedrake?tab=...
Now I am hot on the trail of unraveling the entire mystery...
What I am now doing is to think like the person who designed it. The more I can be in their shoes the better. This has led me to find the discrepancies from the original ball and this one (the knockoff). I have focused on what is different between the two. So far it is Y. V. and U which has led me to look for clip art that is similar between them. I am not of the belief that it is an axe (yxa)until it is proven. My first search was the other products from the company to see if it was used other places/products to no avail. Now I am finding the clip art in alphabet sets and flashcards. The more that are similar will lead to the answer(s).
I found only one u-boat flashcard http://www.picturesof.net/_images_300/U_Is_For_U_Boat_Alphab... but now do not think that is the actual image.
Now looking for clipart that has V is for volcano. Found a few and now looking for axes etc but...
My current theory is that it is NOT an ax or yxa but paint for Yellow like the second post shows. My photoshop skills are not great but I think it is a combination from this image http://clipground.com/image-post/90353-red-color-tube-clipar... or this image http://clipground.com/image-post/90353-red-color-tube-clipar... (I also think that it does not have to be originally yellow as that is a simple change to do in photoshop so the other colors can work) The caps in this picture are very close as are the paint threads and my guess is that they can be overlaid with near perfection if my photoshop skills allowed. I was led to this site because of the image for U-boat is here on the same site http://clipground.com/image-post/62547-submarine-boat-clipar...
"The efficient markets hypothesis may be "the best established fact in all of social sciences," but the best established fact in all of financial markets is that, when there is news about a big famous private company going public or being acquired, the shares of a tiny obscure public company with a similar name will shoot up. I don't know what that tells you about the efficient markets hypothesis, but it happened to Nestor, Inc., and to Tweeter Home Entertainment, and to Oculus VisionTech Inc., and now it has happened to SNAP Interactive Inc.:
In what is almost surely a case of mistaken identity, investors sent shares in a little known startup called SNAP Interactive Inc., ticker STVI, surging 164 percent in the four days since Snap Inc. filed for a $3 billion initial public offering. The $69 million SNAP Interactive makes mobile dating apps, while the IPO aspirant is the parent of the popular Snapchat photo-sharing app. These stories are always less impressive when expressed in dollar terms than they are in percentages. In the four trading days since Snap Inc. filed its S-1, SNAP Interactive has traded 19,963 shares, worth less than $200,000, according to Bloomberg data. If you had a cunning plan to buy up SNAP shares and sell them for a quick profit when Snap filed to go public, it might have worked, but not in particularly huge size."
article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-09/quasi-ind...
The takeaways: - The path to success is through NOT trying to succeed - To achieve our highest goals we must be willing to abandon them - It is in you interest that others DO NOT follow the path you think is right
the YC stack is here: https://trends.builtwith.com/tech-reports/Y-Combinator
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