Note: this is the text from a Linkedin post I wrote, in response to a post by Cathy Hackl, She visited a concept store that features Alipay’s \”smile to pay\” facial recognition payment technology. Here\’s her video where she\’s discovering facial recognition payment systems in China. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6503651708290293760/ As I\’ve written about before, I have some very serious …
I\’m toying with including this on my blog post on automation
This video shows the freaky results of research underway at the University of Washington: how easy it is to make it look like people said something they never did at all. www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/12/software_generates_controllable_models_of_famous_people_s_faces_video.html Automated post from Decahedralist Inc. – http://ift.tt/1N2nmAg December 11, 2015 at 05:34PM
This video shows the freaky results of research underway at the University of Washington: how easy it is to make it look like people said something they never did at all. www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/12/software_generates_controllable_models_of_famous_people_s_faces_video.html Automated post from Decahedralist Inc. – http://ift.tt/1N2nmAg December 11, 2015 at 05:34PM
I\’ve always wanted to be able to freely summon the internet by voice, and have it respond (in natural language no less) as I go about my daily tasks. Honestly, what would be easier than to just speak up from wherever you are? Which is why I was really interested to hear about Amazon\’s new Echo.
I was stunned when, after posting this article on Facebook the other days, I got pushback that it wasn\’t really an \”innovation\” because it was too simple: www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about/news/oxford-designed-flare-pan-uses-40-per-cent-less-heat-than-conventional-pans. The design came about this way. Professor Tom Povey – who actually works as an engineer researching the design of high-efficiency cooling systems for next-generation jet-engines (he\’s a real rocket scientist!) – …
I\’m heavily back into the New York City startup scene and – phew, it\’s a hopping one. Recession schmecession. Had the pleasure of recently attended a party mixing VCs and startups (many already operating, some not) and I honestly have more fun listening to the startup\’s business pitches and evaluating (sometimes in my head, sometimes …
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I regularly get asked, \”how do you come up your blog entry subjects?\” – and my standard answer is, I notice things, then connect the dots. And then I saw a wonderfully quirky little movie tonight, a documentary about a man (Bill Cunningham) who has spent decades spotting and documenting trends in fashion on the streets of NY. I love …
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I muse on the intersection of three subjects constantly: Technology: I\’m fascinated by how we use it, interact with each other using it, and how it\’s changing us. Culture: That amorphous, nebulous, indescribable water we swim in. Psychology: Fascinating. How our brains develop and work. Nature vs nurture. Universal stuff inherent to being mammalian animals. …