See, the beautiful thing about eigenanalysis is that if you have enough samples (faces), it extracts the most prominent features from that dataset. Perhaps furrowed brows and bared teeth are prominent features for looking hostile, the eigenface would show this if it is true for most of the dataface.
Look closer at the eigenfaces, what you see are "ghostlike" shapes of all possible prominent features. The darker more defined features are the more prominent ones.
Please don't dismiss this as BS, it's an old technology but our computational abilities at calculating determinents on sparse and large matrices is improving. Look into Cholesky speed ups if you don't believe me.
This is a boring concept in linear algebra but a powerful tool in pattern recognition.
You can find corpuses
of human faces taken with different emotions displayed.
Once
you've either collected them yourself or downloaded them, you need to use
a process called eigenanalysis which is basically fancy talk for analyzing
a large dataset with multiple classes (emotions) using matrix decomposition.
I've actually worked on many projects involving this and the result is
an eigenface (or eigenmask)
that allows you to transform the space that the
original image is in and classify it using any of a number of algoirthms that use
euclidean distance.
There are also strategies which require tagging certain features as points on the face
(like corners of eyes, corners of mouth, center of eye, etc) and then using the
relative distances between all these points to determine what classification you would give
a new face. The problem with this is that it requires a lot of hand work to prepare the training set.
Hope this
helps anyone who wants to learn more about the actual process used to accomplish this recognition.
Wow. Listen, I grew up on a farm working in the sun all day, picking rock and bailing hay.
Do you think I cared about "UV" protection for my eyes? I didn't... hell, I remember arc wielding without a shield. Not very bright but sometimes you don't have $180 to blow on glasses that protect my "pretty little eyes" from the sun.
Oh, one more thing, I don't think eBay was sending me that late e-mail out of concern for my eyes. It looked to be a petty token of compliance between them and Oakley.
Oh man, I had phone number, addresses, etc. I had even contacted 4 or 5 of the previous auction winners to confirm they were real customers getting real laptops. I called the store and talked to the guy who was defrauding me. Once ebay handed the case to the authorities though, the phone number wouldn't even ring, it was disconnected. I thought I was thorough on this but...
I should have added that I'm assuming matters like these will be handled better by Google. Or perhaps the seller will need to have a registered credit card with Google in order to place an auction.
I don't know, there has to be a better way to implement this that protects sellers.
By the way, there were Europeans involved in the court action against Mr. Hale (the convicted in my case) and they got all their money back too because there were people here in the states representing everyone.
I'm sorry to hear of your misfortune, I hope everything is resolved somehow for you. If you know anyone in Texas, now would be the time to ask them for a favor.
"With all the amount of profits that eBay makes, then there is ample scope for additional staff. Frankly, it is totally unsatisfactory, not just for Ben Sherman but for all brand holders.
EBay have rejected the accusations, saying that the company has a good relationship with law enforcement officials.
I was once defrauded of around $1,500 for a laptop on ebay. Hundreds of other people had bought
the same laptop from the same "ebay store" and they retailed at around $3,000. I don't know if I did anything
stupid because there were 50 other people that also bought the auctions this store had made. In the
end, the guy running the operation just turned out to be stupid. He thought he was making money on Toshiba laptops.
But he was actually operating deep in the red.
What did ebay do? At first, nothing. They kept telling me to wait in automatically generated
e-mails. I only grew more upset when I learned that I was one of the last people to try to buy
a laptop. The other 48 people had already voiced concern to ebay yet ebay did nothing to stop
this man's other auctions.
A month passes and I recieve a phone call from a detective in Detroit where the store was based out of.
Ok, so it's a police matter. I eventually got all my money back in two payments 1/2 and 1 year after
the incident.
Was I happy with how ebay responded to this problem? Absolutely not. They never spent one minute
trying to resolve this. They recognized it as a serious problem and handed it right over to the police.
Do the police profit from this? Hell no. Ebay profits while the general public is forced to pay
for the clean up of any messes.
I now only buy things for $20 or less on ebay. One thing I bought where completely fake Oakleys.
I knew they were fake but I didn't care. I got the glasses and had them in my car for a month before
I got an e-mail from ebay warning me not to buy the product. The auction had been over for 40 days.
That's some quick action... with all the money they make, maybe they could carry a little
more responsibility?
It's a hell of a racket they got going. I tell you what, the second Google launches their ebay knock
off, I just may boycott ebay.
This is mentioned in other posts, but not all poor nations are "bushmen and widebeests." Generalizing the situation into "bushmen" trying to communicate with other "bushmen" is a bit narrow minded.
I have a firm belief that anyone can rise above their initial malfortune in life. If these laptops are given to "bushmen", I'm sure they could come with a built-in translation lookup program so they could begin to learn an additional language to suit their desire to learn.
You're right, they don't equal education. However, if this is implemented correctly at the local level, they could act a positive catalyst for getting an education.
Or potentially find a web page written by another bushman describing the best way to skin a wildebeest.
I don't really know a decent way to deal with racist/ignorant comments. I guess I'll start by saying that people are extremely resourceful regardless of their nationality. I'll also bet that these "bushmen" you speak of know (on average) more languages than Americans.
Even if the laptop came with only a document about AIDS, its symptoms and how to avoid it, people can benefit from them.
You can't plow a field with a laptop but you can learn how to build primitive plows from wood and use oxen or tamed cattle to move them.
You can't sow a field with a laptop but you can go learn how to harvest wheat and walk the rows and spread it correctly with each sweep of your arm.
If you look around, there are a lot of resources online regarding this stuff. I grew up on a farm and I was taught a lot of things. Farming is 90% knowledge and 10% physical tools.
Well, you're right about an immediate form of aid. But have you really helped them by giving them this water, food or mercedes handout?
What better way to free a people then to allow them the means to learn how to grow the food or purify the water? What I'm trying to say is that teaching someone how to help themselves is worth more than you helping them along their entire lives.
That's why I like this laptop idea so much. It's not a temporary bandaid with a few truckloads of food or mercedes. It's a possible permanent fix for people in need if it is done correctly and used by the people.
Laptops are powerful devices considering the amount of information they make available to you.
Well, you're right about an immediate form of aid. But have you really helped them by giving them this water or food handout?
What better way to free a people then to allow them the means to learn how to grow the food or purify the water? What I'm trying to say is that teaching someone how to help themselves is worth more than you helping them along their entire lives.
That's why I like this laptop idea so much. It's not a temporary bandaid with a few truckloads of food. It's a possible permanent fix for people in need if it is done correctly and used by the people.
So perhaps some of you have read Bill Gates' Business at the Speed of Thought.
No, not the Necromonicron, I'm not referring to anything written by Satan
(just one of his understudies). I have read this book and a very interesting concept
that I gathered from it was that a business could be measured by the speed at which
information passes through it. This makes sense as the easier it is for employees to
gather information or to pass information increases the amount of brainstorming and
learning that occurs at your company.
I then speculated that this could also be applied to nations. A country's greatness
may be able to be measured by the ease at which its citizens gather information. And
if you look at today's countries, this might be true.
Perhaps this initiative to deliver cheap laptops to students of poorer nations will
help boost their economy and the rate at which information travels from person to
person. After all, isn't internet access the fastest and cheapest form of communicating?
Just something to think about. I wonder if anyone else feels the same way--I know this
is a very altruistic view. On top of that, I realize I've just mentioned Bill Gates
in a somewhat positive
manner. *sprays himself with flame retardent foam and begins to pray*
Ok, so the error ratio is around 4:3 but what about the cost ratio?
My consumerism values tell me that Wikipedia wins out big time.
Why are these two even being compared? One is a paid service where you expect all the information to be correct and the other is a free service where you're told that there's no garuntees if it's accurate. Sounds like two completely different services to me.
Ok, I RTFAed so don't be mad at me. I'm still not clear on something though stemming from this
excerpt from the article:
Calculations suggest that a helicon double layer thruster would take up a little more space than the main electric thruster on ESA's SMART-1 mission, yet it could potentially deliver many times more thrust at higher powers of up to 100 kW whilst giving a similar fuel efficiency.
Is this saying that the energy used to propel the shuttle can now be deferred
to depending on an electric source (for the 100kW)? I'm wondering if I should be excited about
this new technology or if I should just give them a pat on the back for finding a different
and possibly slightly better way to power an engine? I guess it's comparable in size but can rely more on electricity instead of solid fuel for thrust, correct?
Take, for example this
story which includes the quote:
The Chinese government, in particular,
sees its reliance on Microsoft as a potential threat. Conspiracy buffs believe certain
patches in the Windows code might give U.S. authorities the power to access Chinese
networks and disable them, possibly during a war over Taiwan.
Let's not forget how important our information infrastructures are and how dependent
we have been on computers for quite sometime. Let's also not forget common rules of war
one of which is cutting off an enemy's supply line ASAP to reduce their cone of
influence. A pre-emptive move to "test the waters" of U.S. security by China would
not surprise me.
*breaks into a fit of rage and carves "DIE SONY DIE" into his chest with a knife*
*composes himself*
Don't forget that Lucas Arts had something to do with that also. As you can see in that article, Lucas Arts constantly got involved on what the professions should be and how they should be played.
Oh, that tattoo on my chest? No no, that's German for "the Sony, the."
Ever played D&D? Its based off the D&D core ruleset. Go get yourself a book. 3.5 is the current ruleset. It'll blow your mind away. The rules are way more complex than WoW. Thats all I was sayin'
Fair enough. I've never played D&D. I didn't know there was a "core ruleset." I don't have said book. It takes a lot to blow my mind away.
If the rules are more complex, does this require more rules and more memorizing? Keep in mind I'm an American and I think that puts my attention span at 11 seconds (give or take a few).
Ironically, I'm not looking for complexity in rules or ease of play. I'm looking for a good crafting and trading system (which, in my opinion, SWG has one that no one has come close to).
Go download the stresstest and be as disappointed in DDO as I am.
I will do this, except for being disappointed just because you are.
Your statement instructs me to be disappointed, do you have a predisposition against DDO? Do you want me to have one also? You could have rephrased that to read, "Go download the stresstest I hope you're not as disappointed in DDO as I am."
You've illustrated my point, though, in how a great game like WoW can automatically hurt a possibly great game like DDO. For christ's sake, man, it's not even off the ground and you've killed it.
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See, the beautiful thing about eigenanalysis is that if you have enough samples (faces), it extracts the most prominent features from that dataset. Perhaps furrowed brows and bared teeth are prominent features for looking hostile, the eigenface would show this if it is true for most of the dataface.
Look closer at the eigenfaces, what you see are "ghostlike" shapes of all possible prominent features. The darker more defined features are the more prominent ones.
Please don't dismiss this as BS, it's an old technology but our computational abilities at calculating determinents on sparse and large matrices is improving. Look into Cholesky speed ups if you don't believe me.
This is a boring concept in linear algebra but a powerful tool in pattern recognition.
You can find corpuses of human faces taken with different emotions displayed.
Once you've either collected them yourself or downloaded them, you need to use a process called eigenanalysis which is basically fancy talk for analyzing a large dataset with multiple classes (emotions) using matrix decomposition.
I've actually worked on many projects involving this and the result is an eigenface (or eigenmask) that allows you to transform the space that the original image is in and classify it using any of a number of algoirthms that use euclidean distance.
I know I left out a lot but there are many papers out there that you can find on citeseer and white papers floating around out there that provide a lot of reading material on this.
There are also strategies which require tagging certain features as points on the face (like corners of eyes, corners of mouth, center of eye, etc) and then using the relative distances between all these points to determine what classification you would give a new face. The problem with this is that it requires a lot of hand work to prepare the training set.
Hope this helps anyone who wants to learn more about the actual process used to accomplish this recognition.
I've tried froogle and so far I haven't been impressed.
I can search for books and such on it but if I look harder at other sites, I can usually find prices that beat froogle.
Have you had good experiences with froogle?
Wow. Listen, I grew up on a farm working in the sun all day, picking rock and bailing hay.
... hell, I remember arc wielding without a shield. Not very bright but sometimes you don't have $180 to blow on glasses that protect my "pretty little eyes" from the sun.
Do you think I cared about "UV" protection for my eyes? I didn't
Oh, one more thing, I don't think eBay was sending me that late e-mail out of concern for my eyes. It looked to be a petty token of compliance between them and Oakley.
Oh man, I had phone number, addresses, etc. I had even contacted 4 or 5 of the previous auction winners to confirm they were real customers getting real laptops. I called the store and talked to the guy who was defrauding me. Once ebay handed the case to the authorities though, the phone number wouldn't even ring, it was disconnected. I thought I was thorough on this but ...
You spell like an AOL using 14 year old girl and your intelligence reflects that also.
I said that under the assumption that Google would have a better protection for buyers.
I should have added that I'm assuming matters like these will be handled better by Google. Or perhaps the seller will need to have a registered credit card with Google in order to place an auction.
I don't know, there has to be a better way to implement this that protects sellers.
By the way, there were Europeans involved in the court action against Mr. Hale (the convicted in my case) and they got all their money back too because there were people here in the states representing everyone.
I'm sorry to hear of your misfortune, I hope everything is resolved somehow for you. If you know anyone in Texas, now would be the time to ask them for a favor.
What did ebay do? At first, nothing. They kept telling me to wait in automatically generated e-mails. I only grew more upset when I learned that I was one of the last people to try to buy a laptop. The other 48 people had already voiced concern to ebay yet ebay did nothing to stop this man's other auctions.
A month passes and I recieve a phone call from a detective in Detroit where the store was based out of. Ok, so it's a police matter. I eventually got all my money back in two payments 1/2 and 1 year after the incident.
Was I happy with how ebay responded to this problem? Absolutely not. They never spent one minute trying to resolve this. They recognized it as a serious problem and handed it right over to the police. Do the police profit from this? Hell no. Ebay profits while the general public is forced to pay for the clean up of any messes.
I now only buy things for $20 or less on ebay. One thing I bought where completely fake Oakleys. I knew they were fake but I didn't care. I got the glasses and had them in my car for a month before I got an e-mail from ebay warning me not to buy the product. The auction had been over for 40 days. That's some quick action
It's a hell of a racket they got going. I tell you what, the second Google launches their ebay knock off, I just may boycott ebay.
This is mentioned in other posts, but not all poor nations are "bushmen and widebeests." Generalizing the situation into "bushmen" trying to communicate with other "bushmen" is a bit narrow minded.
I have a firm belief that anyone can rise above their initial malfortune in life. If these laptops are given to "bushmen", I'm sure they could come with a built-in translation lookup program so they could begin to learn an additional language to suit their desire to learn.
You're right, they don't equal education. However, if this is implemented correctly at the local level, they could act a positive catalyst for getting an education.
All I can say is that WANs grow larger everyday. Right now, there are certain cities that offer city-wide network connections.
Yeah, you're right, it could fail.
But what are you doing to help these issues?
Even if the laptop came with only a document about AIDS, its symptoms and how to avoid it, people can benefit from them.
You can't plow a field with a laptop but you can learn how to build primitive plows from wood and use oxen or tamed cattle to move them.
You can't sow a field with a laptop but you can go learn how to harvest wheat and walk the rows and spread it correctly with each sweep of your arm.
If you look around, there are a lot of resources online regarding this stuff. I grew up on a farm and I was taught a lot of things. Farming is 90% knowledge and 10% physical tools.
Well, you're right about an immediate form of aid. But have you really helped them by giving them this water, food or mercedes handout?
What better way to free a people then to allow them the means to learn how to grow the food or purify the water? What I'm trying to say is that teaching someone how to help themselves is worth more than you helping them along their entire lives.
That's why I like this laptop idea so much. It's not a temporary bandaid with a few truckloads of food or mercedes. It's a possible permanent fix for people in need if it is done correctly and used by the people.
Laptops are powerful devices considering the amount of information they make available to you.
Well, you're right about an immediate form of aid. But have you really helped them by giving them this water or food handout?
What better way to free a people then to allow them the means to learn how to grow the food or purify the water? What I'm trying to say is that teaching someone how to help themselves is worth more than you helping them along their entire lives.
That's why I like this laptop idea so much. It's not a temporary bandaid with a few truckloads of food. It's a possible permanent fix for people in need if it is done correctly and used by the people.
So perhaps some of you have read Bill Gates' Business at the Speed of Thought . No, not the Necromonicron, I'm not referring to anything written by Satan (just one of his understudies). I have read this book and a very interesting concept that I gathered from it was that a business could be measured by the speed at which information passes through it. This makes sense as the easier it is for employees to gather information or to pass information increases the amount of brainstorming and learning that occurs at your company.
I then speculated that this could also be applied to nations. A country's greatness may be able to be measured by the ease at which its citizens gather information. And if you look at today's countries, this might be true.
Perhaps this initiative to deliver cheap laptops to students of poorer nations will help boost their economy and the rate at which information travels from person to person. After all, isn't internet access the fastest and cheapest form of communicating?
Just something to think about. I wonder if anyone else feels the same way--I know this is a very altruistic view. On top of that, I realize I've just mentioned Bill Gates in a somewhat positive manner. *sprays himself with flame retardent foam and begins to pray*
Three errors per article? Come on, do you know how much a set of Britannicas costs? Even the on-line subscriptions are $70 annually or $12 monthly!
Ok, so the error ratio is around 4:3 but what about the cost ratio?
My consumerism values tell me that Wikipedia wins out big time.
Why are these two even being compared? One is a paid service where you expect all the information to be correct and the other is a free service where you're told that there's no garuntees if it's accurate. Sounds like two completely different services to me.
No I'm not. I really want to know how big of an impact people think this new design will have.
... how many vampires has it slain? :-)
Take, for example this story which includes the quote:
Let's not forget how important our information infrastructures are and how dependent we have been on computers for quite sometime. Let's also not forget common rules of war one of which is cutting off an enemy's supply line ASAP to reduce their cone of influence. A pre-emptive move to "test the waters" of U.S. security by China would not surprise me.
*breaks into a fit of rage and carves "DIE SONY DIE" into his chest with a knife*
*composes himself*
Don't forget that Lucas Arts had something to do with that also. As you can see in that article, Lucas Arts constantly got involved on what the professions should be and how they should be played.
Oh, that tattoo on my chest? No no, that's German for "the Sony, the."
If the rules are more complex, does this require more rules and more memorizing? Keep in mind I'm an American and I think that puts my attention span at 11 seconds (give or take a few).
Ironically, I'm not looking for complexity in rules or ease of play. I'm looking for a good crafting and trading system (which, in my opinion, SWG has one that no one has come close to).
When did our love die?
Lol, your paragraph nearly killed me.
Your statement instructs me to be disappointed, do you have a predisposition against DDO? Do you want me to have one also? You could have rephrased that to read, "Go download the stresstest I hope you're not as disappointed in DDO as I am."
You've illustrated my point, though, in how a great game like WoW can automatically hurt a possibly great game like DDO. For christ's sake, man, it's not even off the ground and you've killed it.
I just hope it doesn't turn out to be another Middle Earth Online