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lol.micromass said:anybody googling my name will see a lot of lolcats
lol.micromass said:anybody googling my name will see a lot of lolcats
You mean like evohotmail ?rhody said:This is even more intriguing, type in the email address of your primary account minus the @ symbol and the .com or other extension into google. What comes back will amaze you, I guarantee you. My advice, don't give your primary e-mail name to strangers.
Rhody... :uhh:
Evo said:You mean like evohotmail ?
I don't have a hotmail account.rhody said:Are you messing with me, are you ?! Yep... 1,220,000 hits in 0.6 seconds...
On a serious note, if you post stuff on uTube or in my case PF and it gets lots of hits, it comes up right away... You may be buried 1,000,000 images deep, but I not digging for you.
Rhody... :tongue:
Evo said:You mean like evohotmail ?
rhody said:Are you messing with me, are you ?! Yep... 1,220,000 hits in 0.6 seconds...
On a serious note, if you post stuff on uTube or in my case PF and it gets lots of hits, it comes up right away... You may be buried 1,000,000 images deep, but I not digging for you.
Rhody... :tongue:
Evo said:I don't have a hotmail account.
andYang's new algorithm, which was created with the help of a team of researchers at UIUC, could mark a quantum leap in face-recognition technology. Current feature-based systems have accuracy that tops out at 65 percent when some form of occlusion is introduced. They also require relatively high-resolution images, and can easily be fooled by changing small details such as adding a mustache, donning a hood or changing one's expression.
The secret sauce in Yang's new method is a mathematical technique for solving linear equations with sparse entries called, appropriately enough, sparse representation (.pdf). While all other facial-recognition algorithms tend to compare a given feature set against all others in a database (generating percentages of likeliness along the way), Yang's algorithm ignores all but the most compelling match from one subject -- basically, its most confident choice.
Yang says he's already been approached by one startup (which he wouldn't name) interested in adopting this technique for what he calls "preannotation." For instance, this technology could automatically add family members' names to each image in a massive photo library, Yang says, saving you the trouble of flipping through thousands of photos to find that one of Uncle Bill.
It's also easy to imagine search engines like Google being interested in automatically recognizing the faces of the humans portrayed in publicly available photos, adding the image data to the textual information surrounding those photos to produce yet another dimension for targeting advertisements. Looking at a party photo of Johnny Depp on a fan site? Google could display advertisements for Sweeney Todd.
This new technique is also bound to raise a series of red flags for privacy advocates, since what Yang has developed is a highly accurate way of recognizing people even with occlusion or distortion.
rhody said:You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see where this is headed.
The story is uncorroborated, and may be a hoax, but the technology isn't. The stories shelf life starts Oct 16 on the MacRumors Forum, and is reported the next day. Word travels fast, huh ?An unnamed New Yorker claims Apple's new "Find My Friends" app -- which uses GPS to locate any of your friends that have allowed you access to their location -- led to a stunning revelation: His wife has been cheating on him.
"I got my wife a new 4S and loaded up Find My Friends without her knowing. She told me she was at her friend's house in the East Village. I've had suspicions about her meeting this guy who lives uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there."
The user claims his wife told him she was going to the Meat Packing District, a location in the lower West Side of Manhattan. Instead, the Find My Friends feature indicates the woman was on 2nd and 65th St. -- a far different neighborhood that would be difficult to confuse.
"She said she is in meat packing district which is on 12th street. I don't think so," the user wrote, uploading screen shots to the website that appear to corroborate his story.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011...eature-found-his-cheating-wife/#ixzz1bSuSHgKl
As the TV show's star House is fond you saying, "You are all morons..."The common solution to this is ornery, but functional: Use a different browser. I relegate Chrome to this task and use it exclusively for social networking and anything tied to common cookies, like Google. The kind and trustworthy folks at Facebook, Google, and Twitter must think that all I do is go to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and this page, because that's all that browser does. Is that a waste of local resources? Sure. Chrome is chewing on a vsize of 950MB right now and consuming some CPU cycles. Is the trade-off worth it? Most definitely.
I agree Greg, there are lots of branch subjects related to what boardreader does. I say let this thread slide into oblivion, if I open a new one, I will make the thread title more general purpose to cover a wider range of ways you can be categorized and watched. This really isn't my cup of tea, I was curious that's all.Greg Bernhardt said:Let's please move the discussion back to Boardreader, thanks!