vrperson's comments

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man

I would expect algorithms like that to put out likelihoods, not hard identifications. All it does is say "this person looks like that person". I wouldn't read that as "wrong".

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man

Again, how is that story a failure of AI/face recognition?

At some point they even have a human compare the likeness, and the human also concludes it is the same person.

The article even features the sentence "teve Talley is hardly the first person to be arrested for the errors of a forensic evaluation."

And yet people seem to be hellbent to make it about AI.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man

Where exactly is the failure? It identified a person who looks similar to the person in the drivers license? It could even actually be the same person, given that the drivers license is assumed to be fake (so the fake could use the photograph of the suspect).

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India

Have you tried Human Resource Machine?

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man

I don't see much explaining of the capabilities of AI in the article.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020

Pretty sure that only applies to peaceful protests.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020

I have heard it is a common strategy among activists now, but that was a claim made by their "opponents", so not sure how prevalent it is.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: SEC charges Ripple and two executives

OK, but you can find such quotes for everything. "We estimate the global demand to be about 3 computers" "nobody will need more than 16KB of memory" and so on.

(I'm not a fan of XRP, anyways)

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020

What makes you so sure that these people were arrested for telling the truth? What about telling the truth would be an offense worthy of arrest in the US? Assange and Manning come to mind, for leaking government secrets.

But according to the article, most arrests happened in connection with Black Lives Matter protests.

It seems equally plausible that more people than ever try to evade arrest by claiming they are journalists. Or journalist have less and less ethics when doing their jobs.

Not saying that's the root cause, just that you can not simply assume all those people were arrested for telling "the truth".

And how do people who bemoan that stand on the subject of censorship on social networks?

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34B in lost income – study

That's a lot more effort than a quick 2$ at the corner cafe.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: No Cookie for You

Learn at what moment your defenses are down so that they can sell you stuff, presumably. Isn't that the general assumption about tracking?

Or sell your data to interested parties. Maybe if you liked certain GitHub repos, you are more likely to vote Democrat or whatever.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34B in lost income – study

Unless you are rich, then poor people are the problem.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34B in lost income – study

de-gentrification is a good thing if you don't like cupcakes and cafes and nice restaurants and nice shops.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

What is meant by 4)? So users have the right to see a web site without ads? I think if users don't consent, you should be allowed to block their access to your web site?

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

Why should they?

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)

If the choice is to otherwise let them starve, yes.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)

All the options you give leave the children worse off, because they lose their source of income.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)

Maybe they should try other lines of business then?

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)

Child labor is probably not caused by the demand for clothes, though. On the contrary, without those jobs, the situation of those families would be even more perilous.

vrperson | 5 years ago | on: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

reCaptcha is horrible. If you are a business, please stop using it. It feels like working for Google. why the hell should I have to do work for Google when I want to do business with you?