There's no way they have realtime video motion analysis running an airport hallway, much less the whole city. That's an intense computational problem with the barebones image analysis algorithms to solve it. There's just no way they can make sense of that data. Panopticism, however, is powerful.
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This is a cool observation, but not a revolutionary find. Scientists can easily make flies with more or less than six legs, because the genetic limb patterning system has been conserved for over 300 milions years. Thus, it should not come as a shock to any student of evolution that a mutant dolphin might share vestigal characters with a land-dwelling ancestor. I recommend Sean Carrol's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" for a recent lay science review of the evolution of body patterning.
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There's no way they have realtime video motion analysis running an airport hallway, much less the whole city. That's an intense computational problem with the barebones image analysis algorithms to solve it. There's just no way they can make sense of that data. Panopticism, however, is powerful.
The wiki page had about 500 edits on the 15th. Good grief, people have nothing to do.
Easy cheesy: This is a cool observation, but not a revolutionary find. Scientists can easily make flies with more or less than six legs, because the genetic limb patterning system has been conserved for over 300 milions years. Thus, it should not come as a shock to any student of evolution that a mutant dolphin might share vestigal characters with a land-dwelling ancestor. I recommend Sean Carrol's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" for a recent lay science review of the evolution of body patterning.
see berkeley's citris program. http://www.citris-uc.org/