“No More Pencils, No More Books”
“Eighteen students file into a brightly lit classroom. Arrayed around its perimeter are 18 computers. The students take their seats, log in to their machines, and silently begin working.”
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Oct
Monthly Archives: October 2015
14
Oct
“The Face Detection Algorithm Set to Revolutionize Image Search”
“Back in 2001, two computer scientists, Paul Viola and Michael Jones, triggered a revolution in the field of computer face detection. After years of stagnation, their breakthrough was an algorithm that could spot faces in an image in real time.”
Read: The Face Detection Algorithm Set to Revolutionize Image Search
13
Oct
“NPR One”
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01
Oct
“Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not”
“You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans — may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it.”