microdrum

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I try to be unentangled.

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microdrum··on 99% of those who died from virus had other illness, Italy says

Italy also released demographics unlike most countries.

Median age of dead: 80.

microdrum··on Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy

- Why would you report absolute numbers?

- You know that private labs are widely not reporting negative results back to CDC, right? (See Alexis Madrigal)

- We just activated testing in general availability yet virus has been here for months

This is bad statistics, and should be removed.

microdrum··on New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19

That's fear talking. Why would you want to be tested? What would you do differently? You had a virus, now you aren't sick any longer. You aren't making other people sick, either.

microdrum··on Ask HN: Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?

We’ve been using these guys to pick tools, though we didn’t ask for self-hosted vidcon:

https://www.remote-theory.com/

microdrum··on Google Open Source Code Search

You'd use Sourcegraph, probably.

microdrum··on RCMP denied using facial recognition technology, then said it had been using it

Of course you would. Facerec is probably more widely used for finding vulnerable people than for catching hardened criminals tbh.

microdrum··on Clearview’s App Used by Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, and the NBA

So it was just a list of customers that was leaked? Sounds like a CRM hack or something.

microdrum··on Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

Unpopular / true opinion: even more Trumpian tariffs on China will help fix this problem.

microdrum··on Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe

Policies of Clinton administration 1994 would be a Republican administration today.

microdrum··on Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe

Conservatism is pro free market.

Google has destroyed free market in programmatic ads.

Arguably a giant no-holds-barred antitrust litigation every 15 years (Republican way) is better than onerous legislation that always ends up entrenching the incumbents (Democratic way).

microdrum··on GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

Scam to create MSFT lock in. Devs are too smart to get snookered.

microdrum··on Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax

Sure, but the US can actually try foreign military officers somewhat fairly. Almost no country in the world can accomplish that, other than perhaps the UK and Canada.

microdrum··on London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd

That is because the cameras haven't been connected to facerec AIs until now. Now they will be.

microdrum··on London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd

This is why facerec is so important -- it, unlike any other technology yet developed, can find abducted people. One suspects there's a silent majority applauding these facerec companies. That majority is defined as anyone who has been a victim of crime.

microdrum··on Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount

Not to insult you but... could you? If what the company claims is true, and the NYT says that it is, you can build a fast search over 3 billion distractors? Yourself? Without relying on some random outside service, which a national security or police actor would not allow you to use in order to maintain SEC/SCIF compliance?

microdrum··on Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount

There is no way facial rec is going away. Sensationalist outlets like Buzzfeed were, in their day, also against Caller ID. And "databases." Not going to happen. Turning faces into polygons exists/will never unexist.

microdrum··on High-tax states are losing people, money and seats in Congress

As they should be. California has perhaps gone as far as it can go, and one wonders when the rubber band is going to snap back so that the place becomes friendlier to workers and business.

microdrum··on Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London

This is interesting in that it seems like explicitly non-live FR: https://blog.clearview.ai/post/2020-01-23-clearview-is-not-p...

microdrum··on Hundreds of surveillance experiments along the U.S.-Mexico border

https://github.com/marcdacosta/border-radio-investigation/bl...

Anduril doesnt even show up, which probably means that it's overstating its progress.

microdrum··on All Sonos products will continue to work past May

Maybe they should include an AUX port on their speakers.

microdrum··on Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

Your link supports my statement.

microdrum··on The Cruise Origin

Awesome product that does not exist.

microdrum··on Every Google result now looks like an ad

Oh my god, that page is going to disappear soon now.

microdrum··on Options for Enhancing Video of a Burglary?

Even if you can see his face clearly, how will you find him? It's just a face.

microdrum··on Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

That's so weird because I see text and images from fb domains in google search results all the time. Likewise LinkedIn.

microdrum··on Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

I mean, it's a search engine right? Google scrapes Facebook at global scale.

microdrum··on Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

China + Face++ + Sensetime are doing this. The tech is out there.

microdrum··on Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

Right. I mean, cameras are everywhere. Probably, computers will look at and parse their feeds, not just slow humans with eyeballs. Better this than Sensetime.

microdrum··on Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100

Excellent post. This was obvious from the beginning and is causing a rerating of the vcs who invested in these economically and technically checkered deals.[1]

[1] https://medium.com/craft-ventures/the-other-electric-vehicle...

microdrum··on Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing

This, coupled with new software-defined microinverters that work whether the grid is up or down[1], is changing the game worldwide for safe solar AC. I for one am very excited.

[1] https://enphase.com/en-us/ensemble-technology-enphase-instal...

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