system, you are doing something wrong. There are a ton of ways to do this using computer vision, all of them quick and effective. It's a numbers game with computers and Snapchat's verification system is losing.

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Steven Hickson is an avidtechnical blogger and current graduate student researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Engineering from Clemson University before moving on to the Department of Defense. After consulting and working at the DoD, Steven decided to pursue his PhD with a focus in computer vision, robotics, and embedded systems. His open source libraries are used the world over and they have been featured in places such as LinuxAll four quarterfinal matches in the one hundredth edition of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup will take place tonight. With every team only 3 wins away, who is most likely to lift the Cup?

To find out, I began by using published casino odds for tonight's matches. Based on those odds, I calculated the implied probability of each club reaching the semifinals. This was done first by using the method outlined on Simon Gleave's excellent blog, Scoreboard Journalism, but that only gave odds of the outcome after 90 minutes. Since the odds of a tie after regulation were between 21 and 29% for each match, I parsed out wins in half of those overtimes proportional to each club's regulation odds, and went 50/50 to account for the randomness