I expect many people are getting diagnosed with Low T so they can get more bulked up at the gym faster.
Some men might try this, but it won't work. Like most of the endocrine system, testosterone is regulated through a feedback system. Basically, if you ingest testosterone, your blood testosterone won't go up, you'll just be reducing the amount of testosterone signalling hormone that your body produces. The only case where ingesting test will actually increase your test levels, is if you have a legitimate glandular problem.
When juice boxes use testosterone, it's a bit different. They are injecting heroic doses in order to overwhelm this system. If you tried to take that amount of test in a pill, it would be very harmful.
Glass 1.0 didn't have that problem. You know how to tell when a "Glasshole" is filming you? How about the giant white blinking light on the front of the device?
Seriously, it's easier to covertly film somebody with your phone, at least you can pretend you're playing Angry Birds or something.
Having your glasses analyze what you're looking at is an extremely cool concept, but not really feasible for a Glass type device.
The explorer addition could record video for just a couple minutes. Battery life is a huge problem if you don't want a cord hanging out of your glasses.
For a device that sees and hears what you see and hear, you need something more like this: https://www.spaceglasses.com/
As a Tizen dev you get a bigger cut of sales... and it's not anywhere near worth it.
I once saw a full grown man in tears while he was trying to write a simple Tizen app.
I attended a Hackthon once where a team was trying to write a Tizen app, and at the end of the Hackathon none of them were speaking to each other.
Seriously, it's like pulling teeth. I've been an Android/IOS/Blackberry developer for more years than I care to admit, and I'd rather carve "Hello World!" into my own flesh than write it in Tizen.
There are a lot of public databases on those subjects, and more of them popping up all the time. There are also some amazing deep learning tools and resources that are completely open source. Check out Theano, Caffe, or CXXNet. Breaking into the world of deep learning isn't as difficult as most people think. The hardware requirements aren't even that intense anymore as long as you have a CUDA capable GPU (odds are, you do!)
Google may be able to get around the social acceptance problem of Glass. Last I heard, when Glass gets a public release it will be built into a normal looking pair of glasses. The idea being that people around you won't be able to tell that you're wearing it. Then nobody has to be asked "What is that on your face?" 400 times a day, and nobody gets punched by McDonald's employees.
Same thing with the driverless cars!
This article pointed out two products that haven't even been released yet and complains that nobody is buying them.
I can't believe I'm about to defend the development of a fad product, but here goes:
Sometimes there are benefits to a fad that we don't really see as developers. In my industry we call them "press release features". They may feel useless or even degrading to be developing, but they can have actual monetary value.
For example a bank in the US just made a big splash by announcing that they will "support iBeacons". How will they be supporting iBeacons? I have no idea. I'm not sure that even they know. It's not important. What's important is that they got a lot of media attention, and give themselves a veneer of progressiveness.
That's a bit scary. You could literally program the masses with this tech. Somebody on screen drinks a Pepsi and the viewer gets a pleasant sensation. Or somebody drinks a Coke and the view feels slightly nauseated.
Article doesn't list a price, but it seems to me like it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to just install a bunch of HD cameras and microphones around the campus. You could still run the fancy behaviour analysis software on the feed, but you wouldn't need the big lidar driven robot.
To me the most interesting part of the article is the creation of the PRO-ACT database. It's an incredible chunk of data, and I hope it inspires similar projects.
I believe the use case for the smart thermostats is to save energy. You can set a profile so that it lets your house get hotter/cooler while you're at work and, and balance around the 'peak-hours' for people who are charged more for energy at certain times.
It's really hard to say how many of artificial neurons we would need to make a human-like intelligence, but it's certainly going to be less than the number of neurons in a human head. Computers already do a heck of a lot of tasks better than a human. Heck, using traditional computing methods with just a couple of these chips for image recognition and the like would already make a beast of a machine.
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I expect many people are getting diagnosed with Low T so they can get more bulked up at the gym faster.
Some men might try this, but it won't work. Like most of the endocrine system, testosterone is regulated through a feedback system. Basically, if you ingest testosterone, your blood testosterone won't go up, you'll just be reducing the amount of testosterone signalling hormone that your body produces. The only case where ingesting test will actually increase your test levels, is if you have a legitimate glandular problem.
When juice boxes use testosterone, it's a bit different. They are injecting heroic doses in order to overwhelm this system. If you tried to take that amount of test in a pill, it would be very harmful.
Seriously, it's easier to covertly film somebody with your phone, at least you can pretend you're playing Angry Birds or something.
Image analysis of what you're looking at.
Having your glasses analyze what you're looking at is an extremely cool concept, but not really feasible for a Glass type device. The explorer addition could record video for just a couple minutes. Battery life is a huge problem if you don't want a cord hanging out of your glasses.
For a device that sees and hears what you see and hear, you need something more like this: https://www.spaceglasses.com/
And you thought Glass got you funny looks...
I know, right? Only an idiot would use there real name on the internet.
I once saw a full grown man in tears while he was trying to write a simple Tizen app.
I attended a Hackthon once where a team was trying to write a Tizen app, and at the end of the Hackathon none of them were speaking to each other.
Seriously, it's like pulling teeth. I've been an Android/IOS/Blackberry developer for more years than I care to admit, and I'd rather carve "Hello World!" into my own flesh than write it in Tizen.
So lets jump on it. No time like the present.
Toshiba showed off something like that at CES this year. http://www.cnet.com/news/toshi...
Develop an inexpensive and effective cure for cancer first.
Oh, of course! Why didn't we think of that sooner? We'll just whip that up and call you in the morning.
I doubt that this device really works. If it does, I will be shocked.
He's trying to promote it as a means of helping people who have difficulty accessing potable water.
Texas, just a few years from now.
Google may be able to get around the social acceptance problem of Glass. Last I heard, when Glass gets a public release it will be built into a normal looking pair of glasses. The idea being that people around you won't be able to tell that you're wearing it. Then nobody has to be asked "What is that on your face?" 400 times a day, and nobody gets punched by McDonald's employees.
Same thing with the driverless cars! This article pointed out two products that haven't even been released yet and complains that nobody is buying them.
A headline that would be both accurate and informative would be "Scientist Discover That Exercise Causes Change to Epigenetic Tags".
Sometimes there are benefits to a fad that we don't really see as developers. In my industry we call them "press release features". They may feel useless or even degrading to be developing, but they can have actual monetary value. For example a bank in the US just made a big splash by announcing that they will "support iBeacons". How will they be supporting iBeacons? I have no idea. I'm not sure that even they know. It's not important. What's important is that they got a lot of media attention, and give themselves a veneer of progressiveness.
That's a bit scary. You could literally program the masses with this tech. Somebody on screen drinks a Pepsi and the viewer gets a pleasant sensation. Or somebody drinks a Coke and the view feels slightly nauseated.
What if they believe that Wikipedia has some huge bias and are spreading propaganda
Seeming how Wikipedia has already been accused of bias in the past, I see this as a very relevant example.
Think of it less as a way to avoid ads, more of a way for your favourite sites to stay in business.
Article doesn't list a price, but it seems to me like it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to just install a bunch of HD cameras and microphones around the campus. You could still run the fancy behaviour analysis software on the feed, but you wouldn't need the big lidar driven robot.
To me the most interesting part of the article is the creation of the PRO-ACT database. It's an incredible chunk of data, and I hope it inspires similar projects.
There is a very good reason that people in high passion jobs have shit compensation. They're easily replaceable.
I believe the use case for the smart thermostats is to save energy. You can set a profile so that it lets your house get hotter/cooler while you're at work and, and balance around the 'peak-hours' for people who are charged more for energy at certain times.
AT&T : "I'm going to shoot you"
Us : "Can you please just shoot me in the foot?"
AT&T : "OK"
Us : "Yay! Compromise!"
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They aren't sending your biometric data all over the internet. They verify your identity on device and then send a token around.
It's really hard to say how many of artificial neurons we would need to make a human-like intelligence, but it's certainly going to be less than the number of neurons in a human head. Computers already do a heck of a lot of tasks better than a human. Heck, using traditional computing methods with just a couple of these chips for image recognition and the like would already make a beast of a machine.
If the 40% are confirmed false positives, then what are they still doing on the list?