On 21/01/14 01:45 PM, James Morris wrote: > > I was thinking more machine based Anthropological criminology and/or > physiognomy' basically to combine a 'backward' pseudo science with > machine pareidolia - might be fun seeing a lamp post classed as a bank > robber etc.
Ah yes sorry that makes more sense (and is fun). Although with The Internet of Things that lamp post *could* be a criminal: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25780908 (maybe not just yet though: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/is-your-refrigerator-really-part-of-a-massive-spam-sending-botnet/ ) The existing free software algorithms for identifying gender and affect can be applied to lamp posts in a feminist way or used to create a kind of machine Pathetic Fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy Combine it with Google glass and Instagram and ... no this is getting a bit TED, sorry. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
