Those are problems that have nothing to do with having measurements that can be imagined with concrete analogies. Nobody uses "feet" to mean literally their personal feet. A foot is a standardized unit of measure about the size of a foot. I have no problem with that, that's not an absurd thing to do.
Morally, you're also killing someone with no intent on harming you who isn't an immediate threat. Sure, its not quite straightforwardly wrong, but it sure isn't right.
Sure, but you could create physical models, rotate those physical models on top of the video, and see if certain faces are a better match. Obviously it helps if there's more pixels and it doesn't need to be proof in a court of law to be useful in some way, or at the very least an interesting experiment. Maybe another algorithm could do the trick. It does seem like a lot of information about a face is leaked when you have multiple samples, a moving grid sampling different parts of the face, etc. I mean, just by watching certain pixels get extra dark when they pass over parts of the face you can figure out approximately where the eyes are. That's probably enough to narrow down a large pool of suspects to a small one.
This seems like a problem long-term support contracts and medical insurance should be able to make a non-issue. Obviously, if someone undergoes an experimental medical treatment, the company performing the test should bear the responsibility of paying to have it removed should they go out of business or when the trial ends. If for some reason the company is unable to pay for corrective medical treatments, they should be required to have insurance. I'm not sure what the current rules and regulations are when it comes to this sort of stuff, but it really feels like all that's needed is a minor tweak so people do the sorts of things they should have been doing all along: planning financially and medically for the entire lifetime of the implant using the ethical rules and financial instruments we've already invented for dealing with risk and responsibility.
I think of metrics like I do accounting. Accounting is all about measuring parts of the business. You track every dollar sent, lost, owed, etc. Every economic transaction is measured. But nobody wants to just stare at a list of raw transactions. You have to summarize those figures: you group them into revenues and expenses, assets and liabitilies, and you break it down by department, by function. You create a picture of what your business is doing. In the end, all some people really care about is profits, some people want a measure of solvency, others want to know how big your company is. Accountants have actually has thought deeply about metrics and written papers about why the measure what they do and I think something close to the golden rule is: does this information have the capacity to influence someone's decision?
Information is meant to help you make a decision: should we add more servers, should we end this service, can we sell this feature, are our customers satisfied? Every metric should help you answer a question. Ask yourself, what decisions are you trying to make and what information would help you make that decision?
I've always thought something could be done with faces when you blur them out in video. The fact that the grid moves and the colors change make me intuitively feel as if I could guess their face. I bet the 3 letter agencies already have something like that.
Honestly seems like a better fit for him than VR. VR may be games, but everyone is saying his strengths are technical, not organizational. Seems like he wants to work on hard technical problems and thats what he's good at.
OP, I think you're anthropomorphizing the software. Its generating text that matches a topic, it doesn't actually understand your question or have the ability to perform actions on the computer running it.
True and non-fiction aren't the same thing. Conspiracy theories and crackpot ideas don't purport to be literary works. Nobody talks about papers about the luminiferous ether as works of fiction simply because they're wrong. Maybe a pendantic point, but if you're insisting on playing word games instead of boycotting purveyors of pseudoscience and crankery, then I'm going to point out that's not really what the word "fiction" means.
I've heard of the endless disruption that leap seconds cause for years and only now have I thought to ask the question: what was so important that the entire world needed to add or subtract individual seconds from the calendar? Seems like you'd need a pretty big justification for something like that, but I only here the horror stories, not what the leap second was supposed to actually solve.
I have a crackpot theory that two languages are related, so I'm writing a program to try to reconstruct root words that derive from a common language - using test-driven development.
Maybe the reason most attackers don't use lockpicking to enter a home is because usually they lock is difficult enough to make other methods of entry easier.
I've been getting messages and mail in Oregon and I think they're just making things up. They even tried to shame me for voting in the general elections, but not the midterms. This is of course nonsense, but its probably easier to mail out a thousand of those than to research each voter.
I don't know much about Kanye, but are reports of people telling him he didn'h have talent to be a rapper genuine, or just something he tells people? Because it sounds like the sort of thing people make up for their own personal narrative. It reminds me of when people say things like "the doctor told me I only had a year to live" - which is something no doctor would actually say because its a massive legal liability, but it fits our personal narrative. Who were these people Kanye had to overcome?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how this correlation shows that the mapping is semantic and not, say, grammatical, syntactic, or structural in some way.