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milesokeefe··on Automatically grading multiple choice exams from photos using Python and OpenCV
The light would shine through each student's answer card and key, like when you press two sheets of sketch paper together. So any mismatches would be easy to see and mark as you scan down the card. It would only take a few seconds to score each card and there would be no cognitive load at all, as in you wouldn't have to evaluate any answers.
milesokeefe··on Karabiner – Easy Keyboard Remapping for OS X
Once you regained use of your right hand did it take any time to get back to full typing speed using both hands?

How close to your two hand WPM did you achieve with your left hand alone?

milesokeefe··on With Moderate Drinking Under Fire, Alcohol Companies Go on Offensive
Especially considering how often it's anxiety-inducing. Hard to say the same for alcohol.
milesokeefe··on The case for making New York and San Francisco much, much bigger
Why/how has it failed?
milesokeefe··on Helsinki Tries Self-Driving Buses in Real Traffic
At a maximum speed of 7MPH I wouldn't be too worried about that. They don't operate on public roads anyways.
milesokeefe··on Equation Group Cyber Weapons Auction
Are you suggesting that BTC can't be laundered?
milesokeefe··on Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years
This the other kind of MiTM attack: Man in the Mail.
milesokeefe··on Musk Declares Tesla Free of Factory Hell with Targets Intact
The drawback with that approach is that it requires the road to have been previously scanned. So all roads would have to be scanned and added to a database, much like Streetview.
milesokeefe··on How Magic Leap Works – From Field of View to GPU
Movies are one of the last things we'll see adapted to AR. Even adapting the medium to VR is a difficult challenge. Disney has a lab that's taking a crack at it though.
milesokeefe··on How Magic Leap Works – From Field of View to GPU
If that does turn out to be true it will be very impressive, has there ever been a vaporware project that raised this much money?
milesokeefe··on How Magic Leap Works – From Field of View to GPU
I suppose it could be considered AR. But where do you draw the line? Is Google Maps with certain businesses outlined AR because it's an augmented version of the real world?

Personally I limit what I consider AR to be graphics superimposed on a real world view. With the maps in Pokemon GO, the real world and game are distinct, almost like VR.

milesokeefe··on Polycom’s co-founder on the best investment he ever made
Unfortunately that's the only component shop in town. IIRC I couldn't even find one in SF to my amazement.

Kudos to Al Lasher's though, there's few places like that still around.

milesokeefe··on Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
No I'm not meaning to imply that anyone should assume someone using BTC is a criminal. However it's not irrational to pay closer attention to them.

I do think reporting every single BTC user to a three letter agency is pushing it though. I would understand doing that for accounts that raise red flags beyond simply using BTC, but doing that for every single one seems a bit paranoid and ineffective anyways.

milesokeefe··on The future is fewer people writing code?
>Cars now go 100,000 miles between tune-ups. They used to go, what? 10,000 miles?

I'm curious what your definition of tune-up is, because I don't believe there exists a car that can go that far unmaintained without doing lasting damage to various systems.

After a quick Google, my impression is that most 2016 cars have a first maintenance schedule around 5k-6k miles. Some as low as 3,750.

milesokeefe··on Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
Was it a very niche brand of knife that is the nearly exclusive choice of criminals?
milesokeefe··on Flying Aquila: Early lessons from the first full-scale test flight
Similar planes use follower cars to manage landing so the wings don't touch the ground, that's really not too far fetched.
milesokeefe··on Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermont
>That map drawn by Joseph Smith looks awfully similar to a 5280x5280 .PNG I made a while ago

Do you mind uploading it?

>without reserving at least 1.8 parking spaces per household, you're going to have problems

For those curious, SF has 805,235 households / 441,541 public parking spots = ~0.548. Both numbers as of 2010.

milesokeefe··on Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners
As nfjstjstns notes, very often there is "a small second battery connected to the baseband for emergency purposes".
milesokeefe··on Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners
One nefarious method malware could use to get data off the device without RF would be to play sub 20kHz audio through the speakers, assuming there was a device with a microphone near by that's able to receive the signal, and of course that the speakers can play a frequency that low.

Along the same lines, but only successful if the user isn't looking, would be to use the flashlight LED.

Or maybe very short low power vibrations, if the receiving microphone is on the same surface.

All of these require somewhat particular situations, but fun to think about in any case :)

milesokeefe··on Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners
That seems safer, with Snowden's device it has to detect transmission after it begins to occur in order to trigger shutdown or alert the user, so it's going to leak some amount of RF even if little. A properly constructed Faraday cage shouldn't though.
milesokeefe··on Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners
It's not conclusive by any means but Mythbusters tested this and came to the conclusion that tooth filings don't act as an antennae:

http://mythresults.com/episode4

milesokeefe··on How Tinder's “feedback loop” forces men and women into extreme strategies
As in after a high enough number of consecutive swipes in a time period, i.e. 3 swipes a second for 30 seconds, the swipes get ignored. No one can evaluate people that quickly, so it's okay to assume the client is a bot or a human spamming likes.
milesokeefe··on How Tinder's “feedback loop” forces men and women into extreme strategies
Because that constitutes being an irresponsible participant. If everyone did that, it just shifts the filter from swiping to unmatching.

It also signals a lack of empathy IMO. No one likes being matched and immediately unmatched.

milesokeefe··on NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth for 2nd Time in a Year
What value did your comment add?
milesokeefe··on Hyperloop project faces explosive lawsuit from co-founder
Russia could very well be that group:

https://www.rt.com/news/329963-russia-hyperloop-investor-tal...

milesokeefe··on Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States
Re: the attached album - I'd like to write a followup letter to that professor concerning his/her use of Avante Garde as a body font.
milesokeefe··on Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States
Hold your arms still, drop to your knees, and hope someone is filming.
milesokeefe··on Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Castile shooting video: It was the police
>If he issued an order for all police to put down all weapons tomorrow, the safety of the street would actually increase.

US police losing all firearms instantly without changing civilian gun controls laws would be a very dangerous situation. Much more dangerous than the current one.

milesokeefe··on Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Castile shooting video: It was the police
>this "gangster" lifestyle is a result of rap music

Are you sure about that? That's a pretty outlandish thing to say.

>The media outlets need to be fined to take away the incentive to over report on sensational news

How would sensational news be distinguished from highly engaging/interesting news?

You can already see this issue regarding the hate for clickbait, people will call any content with an enticing title clickbait regardless of the value of the content itself.

milesokeefe··on Dallas Police Used Robot with Bomb to Kill Ambush Suspect: Mayor
They used both in this instance.
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