Eye in the Sky: Real-time Drone Surveillance System (DSS) for Violent Individuals Identification using ScatterNet Hybrid Deep Learning Network
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00746v1
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― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
I'm starting to think any paper submitted should require an ethicist be one of the credited contributors before it's allowed to be published
― mh, Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
see that doesn't belong in the thread either because it sounds like it actually is a bad algorithm
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
I haven't read any of Harari's books, but I feel like the buzz around him is mostly positive so I was surprised to read stuff like this:
Imagine Anna Karenina taking out her smartphone and asking Siri whether she should stay married to Karenin or elope with the dashing Count Vronsky. Or imagine your favorite Shakespeare play with all the crucial decisions made by a Google algorithm. Hamlet and Macbeth would have much more comfortable lives, but what kind of lives would those be?
tbf this is nowhere near as dumb as the OP and he raises plenty of valid concerns, but I'm not sure techno-dystopianism is going to help us anymore than its opposite ever did
― rob, Monday, 3 September 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
The insatiable demand for content and for novelty leads to every kind of inanity getting disseminated. The bar for punditry is set exceptionally low.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 September 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
harari's 2014 book is compelling, his 2016 one a bit more of a slog
came here to post this
http://www.drb.ie/essays/the-hive-mind
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 September 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
the whole paragraph is a clusterfuck really
Democratic elections and free markets might cease to make sense.
algorithmic trading has existed for over three decades now
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:39 (five years ago) link
(and actually has caused very real and very big problems with the economy, but that isn't as exciting as robots stealing our free will)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:47 (five years ago) link
only tangentially related to algorithm panic but the best thread on this subject you'll ever erad
(nsfw, probably, conceptually nsfw at least)
Ugh. I will be receiving this article for the foreseeable future, and while I love yelling at people for sending me dumb shit, I have things to do. In an effort to save time, I presentONE DEGREE OF TRANSLATIONAL FREEDOM DOES NOT A BLOWJOB MAKEA THREADhttps://t.co/ltHco7EGtU— Kyle Machulis (@qDot) October 26, 2018
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 26 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
s/read
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 26 October 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
the links in this thread are like a greatest hits of shitty articles written about THE BIG BAD ALGORITHMS: that awful Racked piece, that terrible "pop music all sounds the same now!!!!!1!1!!!one" study, etc.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/algorithms-music.php?fbclid=IwAR3gSkSWU0xFnlPK-AkF8BcQwryqYeVdMqB96p_phCE12hyIMuvBbe394Pc
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Perhaps with an undertone of personal resentment, phrases like āalgorithmic cultureā and the āalgorithm economyā have cropped up among critics to illustrate the way aesthetic and commercial motivations shift in this world of passive, automated discovery.
TRANSLATION: no one knows what the fuck an algorithm is, and people use "algorithms" as a scary technological bucket to hold their old anxieties about art vs. commerce, authenticity, rockism, and perhaps aging out of technology's target demographic, and I have no idea how people who program things for a living and also listen to music don't want to disintegrate on the regular
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
āBy āalgorithm culture,ā I meant the notion of art as something reduced to an integer and formulaāa constant infinity loop of ārecommended if you likeā¦ā playlists,ā Weiss says.
not to pick on him, I generally like his music writing, but this is kind of hilarious since an infinite loop is, by definition, not an algorithm, which is finite
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
lol and otm. Weiss might have been gesturing at some kind of cybernetic feedback loop system? Idk I think the discourse/hype around machine learning has made these discussions even worse.
I did think this bit was interesting:
Spotify employs natural-language processing (NLP) models in its recommendation algorithms, analyzing text from blogs, news articles, forums, and other sources to draw connections among different artists and songs, and to figure out what adjectives and moods people associate with these artists online.
Reminds me of people wondering why Conde Nast wanted to buy Reddit. Also that one poster who would freak out about Spotify all the time...maybe he knew
― rob, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
I wonder if they don't actually do that and just say they do b/c it sounds good
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
a constant infinity loop of ārecommended if you likeā¦ā playlists,ā
If you like Bing Crosby Sings White Christmas you might like Bing Crosby Sings White Christmas... ???
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
re: the NLP stuff -- I would be skeptical of how useful it is, at least right now. my friend Emily (who actually does know what she is talking about) just posted about some of what's out there, which is... not fantastic: https://emshort.blog/2018/12/11/mailbag-ai-research-on-dialogue-and-story-generation-part-2/
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
(hey that's a cool person to be friends with)
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
yeah I wonder if silby isn't right about "NLP". OTOH textual sentiment analysis would be easy enough to run on those sources, though it's pretty dumb imo
― rob, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
oh sorry I see now your friend mentions SA
― rob, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
xp -- mostly through games stuff
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
I expected exhausting Bandersnatch takes but I did not expect this Jack Thompson twist:
https://qz.com/1513524/black-mirrors-bandersnatch-creates-the-future-not-predicts-it/
But what if instead of logging how many times you watched Love Actually this holiday season, itās remembering whether you opted to kill your father in cold blood, or save him? What could Netflix do with that highly sensitive emotional information? ... The third concern is the most Black Mirror of them all. Itās not inconceivable to imagine that if the government got a hold of your data, it could think youāre someone worthy of future surveillance. Studies from the Oxford Internet Institute show that there is little evidence to say that playing violent video games lead to violent real-life behavior. However, there are still politicians that peddle this narrative. Could Netflix data be used to identify future terrorists or restrict your access to airports?
excuse me sir, we have here a file from a quote unquote "video game" called The Sims detailing how you trapped your quote unquote "Sims" in a house and set it on fire. sorry, but you have to leave the country now.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
something that is actually correct: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/facebook-doesnt-need-to-fool-you.html
this in particular should be carved into a goddamn mountain:
In the same way that the breathtaking scope of contemporary surveillance and data-extraction processes makes conspiracy theories about astroturfed memes and bugged smartphones seem almost pathetic in comparison, it also reveals how little our own choices are able to control the flow of our data, and how little our knowledge really matters. I might be aware that photos of myself in 2009 could be misused, and choose not to participate in that meme. But simply by living a fairly regular life on and offline ā by clicking on links and writing posts; by opening Instagram and scrolling through it, hovering over some photos and flicking past others; by using credit cards at chain stores; by letting photographs of myself be taken and uploaded to the internet ā Iām generating data thatās probably more valuable to the companies involved than those photographs would be. Thereās something tragic about the fact that the purely recreational activity of participating in a meme is the subject of conspiratorial paranoia, while the multitude of chore-like activities we do daily, from which data is also being extracted for hoarding or sale, go mostly ignored.
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
"Can we continue to use your data to tailor ads for you?" Popup irony...
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
i got stuck at a particular sentence in a blog post recently until i realized that they wrote 'logarithm' in place of 'algorithm'
― dyl, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 05:50 (five years ago) link
I expected this bump to be about the aoc thing (which I still need to get through like four levels of Discourse telephone to figure out who's misrepresenting whom and by how much)
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
i'm not following things too closely but steve bellovin seems cogent
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/yes-algorithms-can-be-biased-heres-why/
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 25 January 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
yeah, once I actually read her comments rather than the crust of Discourse coating them, they were far more reasonable than anything in this thread
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Friday, 25 January 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
this one truly has it all https://medium.com/futuresin/why-algorithms-and-artificial-intelligence-are-a-threat-to-democracy-bd4d6b1114af
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
(I realize picking on something by a "Blockchain Mark Consultant, tech Futurist, prolific writer" is cheating, but it was in my inbox)
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
IBM must be grateful there's an I in Mafia
ha, I was going to ask, is this actually getting traction? The introduction is disqualifying on its own
― rob, Friday, 5 April 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
the algorithm currently on my shit list is the one medium used to determine, correctly, that I would click this and email me about it
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
I don't even know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0F45NHLrRA
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 29 April 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/hbo-netflix-recommended-by-humans-website-fan-testimonial-2019-8
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 August 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
look out for the algorithims is something
i'm very fascinated by the placement of objects in that room, specifically the large potted plant which almost looks photoshopped in
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 August 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
seriously! like, why is dude putting his tripod on top of the kick drum head? Looks like it could lead to it ripping? ... otoh, he could have just put the tripod on the floor, if it weren't for the immense potted plant that seems to be there for no good reason? The potted plant is really jarring the more I think about it.
― sarahell, Monday, 12 August 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
also the plant looks a *slight bit* tilted? from left to right? like it seems to tilt more than the bass drumit's a very claustrophobic mise en scene
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 August 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
yeah ... the plant is really troubling ... maybe it was photoshopped in, but in place of some other object? also the tree branch that seems to be tapping at the window at various times? though we can't hear it in the recording, even though it is ostensibly being recorded through the zoom recorder on the tripod, which would presumably pick up some of that sound? though, maybe not?
― sarahell, Monday, 12 August 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
and what are the drums resting on? it looks like it's some white pedestal or ... like they are just sitting in mid-air? is it just me, or does it kinda look like the snare/tom stack is just floating there?
― sarahell, Monday, 12 August 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
really wish I knew who ran this account
Looking for non-algorithmic pop smashes!! https://t.co/SOm0DQqeSQ— ShittyAandRguy (@shittyAandRguy) December 28, 2019
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 29 December 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
an otherwise ok aggregation post of a twitter workaround with an unfortunate title: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kz9ez/go-into-2020-by-taking-your-twitter-feed-back-from-the-algorithm
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
Here's the heart of it:
By adding a few stringsālittle bits of code used by Twitter to tag types of tweetsāto your muted keywords list, you can change the way the Twitter algorithm sends content to your feed. While logged in to Twitter, go to Settings > Notifications > Muted > Muted words, and add the strings below. ā¢suggest_activity_tweet: Stops the platform from feeding you tweets you might likeā¢suggest_recycled_tweet_inline: Stops repeated tweets from appearing over and overā¢suggest_pyle_tweet: Stops serving tweets because mutuals engaged with themā¢suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag: Stops tweets associated with popular hashtags from appearing randomly in your timelineā¢suggest_who_to_follow: Self-explanatoryā¢generic-activity-momentsbreaking: Keep tweets served simply because they're part of a Moment out of your feed
While logged in to Twitter, go to Settings > Notifications > Muted > Muted words, and add the strings below.
ā¢suggest_activity_tweet: Stops the platform from feeding you tweets you might like
ā¢suggest_recycled_tweet_inline: Stops repeated tweets from appearing over and over
ā¢suggest_pyle_tweet: Stops serving tweets because mutuals engaged with them
ā¢suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag: Stops tweets associated with popular hashtags from appearing randomly in your timeline
ā¢suggest_who_to_follow: Self-explanatory
ā¢generic-activity-momentsbreaking: Keep tweets served simply because they're part of a Moment out of your feed
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
right, take your feed back from the algorithm by... adding additional parameters to the algorithm
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
from this spotty essay on big thief: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/listening-in-an-emergency
The task of finding new music presents its own difficulties. If the trouble with YouTube is that it serves up progressively more extreme ideological content, Spotify has precisely the opposite problem, where any song, no matter how brilliant, quickly leads to a chain of forgettable copies that degrade the first song in retrospect.
a) so how, exactly, does this differ from YouTube? because the last time I checked YouTube had a music recommendation algorithm too (although half the time it just sends you to "Plastic Love"). or for that matter, how does this differ from the one on SoundCloud, or Bandcamp, or Amazon, or Last.fm, or literally every other music site that has a similarity feature?
b) 1,000 landfill indie copies exist of virtually every band in existence, because that's how influence works, and the only difference between a playlist and a used-record bin is that the used-record bin probably gave people an advance; in fact one could argue this is what brilliance is, the inability to fade into the background
c) and if Big Thief (the subject of the essay) is indeed brilliant, then why don't they get degraded by the 1,000 Big Thief copies that exist?
d) how exactly does this have anything to do with the rest of the essay
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/college-admissions-algorithms-applications.html
"will colleges start using THE ALGORITHMS in admissions decisions?" unfortunately I have some bad news for the author about the current process that college admission boards use
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 13 July 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
college board website: "Large, public state university systems often use a mathematical formula based on a student's grade point average (GPA) and scores on the SAT or ACT. They tend to favor in-state applicants."
if there's some explanation for how this is not an algorithm, the author hasn't mentioned it
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 13 July 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
the algorithms haven't had a great week in the UK
https://www.wired.com/story/an-algorithm-determined-uk-students-grades-chaos-ensued/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/08/13/algorithm-has-ruined-a-level-results-thousands-students/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/a-level-exam-grades-faulty-algorithm-a4526646.html
― mise rĆ³na (seandalai), Monday, 17 August 2020 12:16 (three years ago) link
Q: Who is to blame for the government's mishandling of a situation everyone saw coming six months ago? A: The algorithms!
― mise rĆ³na (seandalai), Monday, 17 August 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
FWIW I think this scandal is a bit different as most people seem to correctly recognise that the algorithm is being used as a clumsy shield by the unforgivable people who are actually in charge of this shitstorm.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 August 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
I'm going to lose my fucking mind:
Algorithms, by contrast, change as human behavior changes. They resemble not the cars or coal mines we have regulated in the past, but something more like the bacteria in our intestines, living organisms that interact with us. In one experiment, for example, Matias observed that when users on Reddit worked together to promote news from reliable sources, the Reddit algorithm itself began to prioritize higher-quality content.
this is the equivalent of saying "when people started adding 2+4 instead of 2+2, the algorithm produced 6 instead of 4! It's changing!" (or, in this case: "when people started to promote more high-quality content, the prioritize-stuff-people-promote algorithm started to prioritize more high-quality content! It's changing!")
― like, Iām eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 15 March 2021 09:04 (three years ago) link