Yes, only 38 and she's already had a 30 yr career! I think it's great that she
focusing on her family and her chess foundation. Sounds balanced to me.
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:34 PM, "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
She's only 38.
:-(
World’s greatest female chess player Judit Polgar retires
World’s greatest female chess player Judit Polgar retire...
Polgar says she is retiring from competition to dedicate more time to her
family and chess foundation
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Definitely needs to learn TM if she doesn't practice it, and the TM-Sidhis if
she does.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
So soon? WHY?
She's in her 40's, right?
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
Lawson, when you wrote that part about the Polgar sisters, did you know that
Judit announced her retirement today?
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:17 PM, "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
A perfect example of me not reading carefully.
You are talking about a computerized NSA facial recognition search, NOT about
how the brain recognizes faces.
Face palm, runs out of room crying piteously.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
The brain has specialized hardware that is hardwired to make recognition of
faces easier.
As far as I know, facial recognition is considered very much a pure
connectionist thing where inputs get processed in a completely mechanistic way
in the classical neural network sense that that features are evaluated in terms
of how strongly individual neruons are activated and then pass along that
activation to adjacent ( directly connected) neurons in the network.
There ARE probably
specialized feature-recognition circuits in the mix but they function the same
way.
There's no "logic circuits" that test things and say "close or not close?" and
then do some kind of if-then-else decision making.
Our really high-level logic seems to work that way, but that is based on
symbolic and verbal reasoning. Facial recognition is a much more low-level
thing.
Of course, like any set of neurons in the brain, the facial recognition centers
can do more than one thing.
Tests done on one of the Polgar Sisters (a trio of gorgeous Hungarian women who
are also world-class chess players -one is the first non-male international
grandmaster) showed that her ability to glance at a chess board and decide what
was the best move to do next, involved activation of the same neurons that the
rest of us mostly use just to recognize faces.
L---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
I suspect the matching process works
more like this: your face is categorized by certain general
features. Thus the search doesn't bother with faces on file that
don't match that category and just searches on ones that do and
possibly filter out sub categories that don't match too. Thus
leaving a few possibilities which didn't match. Much more
efficient.On 08/13/2014 12:09 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
>>>>I
had an odd experience today. I know that there
is a lot of talk and paranoia on the Internet
these days about how much guvmints know about
us, and whether they should know that much, but
it's never really concerned me because I've
always assumed that I was too boring for any
guvmint to become interested in enough to want
to track me.
>>>>Well, it turns out I was right. I can officially
tell you that I am on no "watchlists" maintained
by any major guvmint, for any reason whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>>I know this because today I had to go to the
Immigration Dept. to get my Dutch resident ID
card renewed. In the past it's been mainly a
formality -- take a new photo, get a new card,
outa there. But this time, they told me I'd have
to report first to "Biometrics." So I did,
waited for a bit, and then a *remarkably* nice
guvmint official verified that my renewal papers
had arrived in the mail and then walked me into
the Biometrics Room. I know that's what it was
called because there was a sign over the door
that said this. :-)
>>>>
>>>>He sat me down at one of two science
fiction-inspired machines, on which I had to
first look into the screen while it took my
photo, and then allow it to take my fingerprints
and sign my signature. Electronically, of course
-- no muss, no fuss. I was finished in a little
over a minute and then he walked me back to his
desk and looked at the results on his own
computer monitor.
>>>>
>>>>He said, "That looks OK...no red flags," and
then said my new ID would be ready in about a
week. But he really *was* a remarkably nice
guvmint official, so I told him I worked with
computers and was curious about this
"Biometrics" thang and asked him to explain it
to me. He did, even showing me his computer
screen occasionally so I could see what he did.
>>>>
>>>>It was spooky. The moment that scifi machine
took my photo, the biometrics of my face were
instantly recorded and compared against all
known databases of "bad faces," those presumably
belonging to terrorists or known criminals. My
fingerprints and signature got the same
electronic scrutiny. All in the time it took for
me to walk back to this guy's cubicle.
>>>>
>>>>Fortunately, I got no "red flags," and so my new
ID card is in the mail. But I can't help but
wonder what would have happened if my pleasing
but aging face had had similar biometrics to the
face of a known terrorist. I suspect that if
that had happened, I would be in a cell
somewhere, and wouldn't be writing this. :-)
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, this was a very science fiction movie
day for me. I got to find out first-hand that a
lot of that "science fiction stuff" we see on TV
and in movies isn't fiction. In less than two
minutes, the Dutch guvmint scanned all my
"biometrics" and decided that I was cool to
renew as a resident. I can't help but be
impressed by the tech behind that, even if as a
computer scientist I know how terribly badly it
could have gone if one of the Dutch programmers
who built this system was a fuckup.
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