Microsoft's AI Judges Age From Snapshots, With Mixed Results
The same mixed results you'd probably get with people doing it.
Just look at those two photos of Obama - he really does look older in one than the other. If you didn't know who he was, or if you found similar looking images of two distinct people, those age guesses would not seem wildly inaccurate.
And that's not quite just pedantic nerdrage talking. Dr. Who is similar-but-different character from a separate fictional universe.
So there.
Interesting nerdfact: they were planning to refer to the Dr. Who films in the 50th anniversery episode as having been inspired by the real Doctor, but they couldn't afford the rights to use the posters.
From a purely technical POV, it's never seemed like a great test image to me. It's soft, the red channel is washed out, the blue channel is noisy, there's absolutely no green or cyan (in the sense of pixels where green is the strongest channel, or red is the weakest channel) and very little blue.
1) We're still not seeing what a user would actually see. We're seeing solid, background-occluding objects overlaid on a camera feed. I'd like them to put a small camera inside a headset, and show us what we'd actually see if we were using it.
2) If they ever need a new guy to do Grover's voice on Sesame Street, I know who to call.
That should be probably further, but anyway, c'mon, it could be a lot further from the truth. They could have claimed to have encrypted the documents using a slice of lemon wrapped around a hamster.
a unique public key generated for this computer
So the only thing wrong with that sentence is the word "public," isn't it? That doesn't sound very far from the truth.
(in fact the screenshot shows the text also says "RSA-2048")
In actuality, the developers of this malware appear to have been lazy and implemented encryption using symmetric AES256 with a decryption key generated on the user's machine.
Whadya mean, "decryption key"? It's the same key! That's the whole point of the story!
So what is so wrong with making a curriculum more attractive to women?
What's wrong is the assumption that because there isn't a 50/50 balance that there must automatically be something dreadfully wrong with the way things are being done.
Men and women are different, and - on average, in general - have different leanings when it comes to subjects. No point railing against it; it's a fact of life.
Make sure men and women will be treated equally in a subject, and make sure they understand this. Then let them sort themselves out.
A 50/50 mix does not mean you've got things right and should not be your target.
Doesn't "zero day" only really apply to attacks, not vulnerabilities themselves?
After all, every vulnerability is a zero day vulnerability on the day it's discovered/disclosed (and actually it seems there's no indication of whether or not WordPress already knew about this one).
And this one was disclosed yesterday (and may have been discovered much earlier) so it's at least a one-day vulnerability now.
Our intuition tells us that a volume can contain all possible configurations of 'particles', but apparently (given the holographic principle) it can't.
Or to look at it another way, it can, but the HP just puts (more) limits on what is possible.
IANAP, but there are other arrangements which are already impossible. The laws of physics see to it that there are no free quarks, for example, or that there are only certain orbitals electrons can occupy around atoms.
the maximum possible information in a volume is not proportional to volume, but to surface area
How does that square with the idea of two unit cubes, each of which has a surface area of 6, but put together have a surface area of only 10? Is it just that "information" doesn't add up that way?
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The whole underdog thing makes for great PR copy, but is otherwise a complete fucking lie.
Uber (valued at US$40 billion after its most recent funding)
Yeah. Wish I could be that kind of underdog.
If you're too stupid to spot a joke, maybe you should, as you so kindly put it, fuck off.
I'm sorry, I have a cold.
Microsoft's AI Judges Age From Snapshots, With Mixed Results
The same mixed results you'd probably get with people doing it.
Just look at those two photos of Obama - he really does look older in one than the other. If you didn't know who he was, or if you found similar looking images of two distinct people, those age guesses would not seem wildly inaccurate.
Seriously, that many people still use IE?!
Why wouldn't they? It's right there, on their computer, the moment they buy it.
Forgive them, for they know not what else they can install.
I got my wife, a Roomba vacuum robot, 6 or 7 years ago.
My hobby: repunctuation.
as well as Dr. Who
Nuh uh. Doctor, not Dr.
And that's not quite just pedantic nerdrage talking. Dr. Who is similar-but-different character from a separate fictional universe.
So there.
Interesting nerdfact: they were planning to refer to the Dr. Who films in the 50th anniversery episode as having been inspired by the real Doctor, but they couldn't afford the rights to use the posters.
Who's "we"? All sorts of people use it for all sorts of things, and plenty of them do so only because it's traditional.
From a purely technical POV, it's never seemed like a great test image to me. It's soft, the red channel is washed out, the blue channel is noisy, there's absolutely no green or cyan (in the sense of pixels where green is the strongest channel, or red is the weakest channel) and very little blue.
Also, they cropped out her knockers and bum.
That's why I always use unsigned integers like a boss.
The summary fails to mention that it didn't all go to plan:
The booster that took the capsule up is said to have failed on the way down.
It is supposed to land vertically and softly, ready for another flight, but a hydraulic problem meant this part of the mission did not go as planned.
I read "did not go as planned" as "ended in a spectacular fireball," but they haven't released any images or video of that.
Incidentally the BBC's headline was:
Jeff Bezos conducts New Shepard flight
which sounded to me like he'd gone up in the thing.
Two things:
1) We're still not seeing what a user would actually see. We're seeing solid, background-occluding objects overlaid on a camera feed. I'd like them to put a small camera inside a headset, and show us what we'd actually see if we were using it.
2) If they ever need a new guy to do Grover's voice on Sesame Street, I know who to call.
Ham [static] Fills [static] Gaps
It sure does.
Embryos seem just ripe
Eww.
Why, for example, would I possibly to see OpenOffice humiliated?
Because it never tells you when you accidentally a word, that's why.
This coudn't be farther from truth.
That should be probably further, but anyway, c'mon, it could be a lot further from the truth. They could have claimed to have encrypted the documents using a slice of lemon wrapped around a hamster.
a unique public key generated for this computer
So the only thing wrong with that sentence is the word "public," isn't it? That doesn't sound very far from the truth.
(in fact the screenshot shows the text also says "RSA-2048")
In actuality, the developers of this malware appear to have been lazy and implemented encryption using symmetric AES256 with a decryption key generated on the user's machine.
Whadya mean, "decryption key"? It's the same key! That's the whole point of the story!
Are you sure she wasn't just using Twitter when you weren't looking?
So what is so wrong with making a curriculum more attractive to women?
What's wrong is the assumption that because there isn't a 50/50 balance that there must automatically be something dreadfully wrong with the way things are being done.
Men and women are different, and - on average, in general - have different leanings when it comes to subjects. No point railing against it; it's a fact of life.
Make sure men and women will be treated equally in a subject, and make sure they understand this. Then let them sort themselves out.
A 50/50 mix does not mean you've got things right and should not be your target.
Doesn't "zero day" only really apply to attacks, not vulnerabilities themselves?
After all, every vulnerability is a zero day vulnerability on the day it's discovered/disclosed (and actually it seems there's no indication of whether or not WordPress already knew about this one).
And this one was disclosed yesterday (and may have been discovered much earlier) so it's at least a one-day vulnerability now.
Our intuition tells us that a volume can contain all possible configurations of 'particles', but apparently (given the holographic principle) it can't.
Or to look at it another way, it can, but the HP just puts (more) limits on what is possible.
IANAP, but there are other arrangements which are already impossible. The laws of physics see to it that there are no free quarks, for example, or that there are only certain orbitals electrons can occupy around atoms.
the maximum possible information in a volume is not proportional to volume, but to surface area
How does that square with the idea of two unit cubes, each of which has a surface area of 6, but put together have a surface area of only 10? Is it just that "information" doesn't add up that way?
So radio stations pay $0.0007? Or are you trying to say they pay $0?
I don't think either of those is true...
and you can pirate with impunity.
Arrghh, ye be takin' all the fun out of it, matey.
fingers, fists, and palms
Does she, indeed?
Well, it's medium.com. You can't analyse it too much.
I think it comes down to this: why there is a big cold spot in the CMB? Because there's a big void. Mystery solved!
Except there's still the mystery of why there is such a big void in the first place.