TIL: Today I Learned

[Snerk]

Ask Jeeves or gtfo.

 

[Takhisis]

You definitely need me as co-pilot in that starfighter you take the Dubai chicks in.

 

[Ryika]

I'd recommend that you use a different search engine.

Yeah, I should probably be using duckduckgo.com, but I'm just too lazy to make a bookmark for that.

 

[Snerk]

You definitely need me as co-pilot in that starfighter you take the Dubai chicks in.

You'll man the turret.

 

[shadowplay]

TIL the Dalai Lama has an authenticated twitter account. That... feels weird to me.

 

[Arakhor]

It's little different to the Pope or the Queen having accounts, no?

 

[shadowplay]

I guess it's the mental image of a guy who spends his time imploring people to live more simply hunched over his mobile thumbing through his mentions.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I guess it's the mental image of a guy who spends his time imploring people to live more simply hunched over his mobile thumbing through his mentions.

He probably doesn't use his thumbs. Like most people over 50, he holds his phone in one hand and uses the fingers on the other to scroll through things. One-handed thumbing is too new-fangled for us. We don't text with our thumbs either.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm not even over 40 and I don't do that either.

 

[Synobun]

He probably doesn't use his thumbs. Like most people over 50, he holds his phone in one hand and uses the fingers on the other to scroll through things.

I do that but mostly just because I have baby hands.

 

[Takhisis]

Yeah, I should probably be using duckduckgo.com, but I'm just too lazy to make a bookmark for that.

Yuo is of serious?

You'll man the turret.

Sweet.

 

[Ryika]

Yuo is of serious?

I was, but have since installed the extension. Now I can search without being tracked, and without having my political queues be filtered by google.

 

[Takhisis]

And you're using Private Browsing mode on Firefox?

 

[Ryika]

I'm using Tor of course.

 

[Takhisis]

The two are not incompatible.

 

[Arakhor]

I use DuckDuckGo on Firefox by default, but I don't use Private Browsing (at least, almost never). I value my history too much for that.

 

[Ajidica]

Because this seems like a good idea.

Row over AI that 'identifies gay faces'

A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two leading LGBT rights groups.

The Stanford University study claims its software recognises facial features relating to sexual orientation that are not perceived by human observers.

The work has been accused of being "dangerous" and "junk science".

But the scientists involved say these are "knee-jerk" reactions.

Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41188560

 

[Kyriakos]

Next: skull-size recognition software to identify intelligence and fitness to be a royal.

 

[Takhisis]

Because this seems like a good idea.

Row over AI that 'identifies gay faces'

A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two leading LGBT rights groups.

The Stanford University study claims its software recognises facial features relating to sexual orientation that are not perceived by human observers.

The work has been accused of being "dangerous" and "junk science".

But the scientists involved say these are "knee-jerk" reactions.

Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41188560

Sounds like phrenology to me.

 

[Traitorfish]

Next: skull-size recognition software to identify intelligence and fitness to be a royal.

We can probably just eyeball that one tbh.