Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
to produce reliable results, fast. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics   I suspect the matching

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. From: lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:09 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics   The brain has specialized hardware that is hardwired to make recognition of faces easier

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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. :-(

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 8/13/2014 2:09 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 8/13/2014 2:09 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 8/13/2014 2:09 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
results, fast. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:56 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics   I suspect the matching process works more like this: your face

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
hits Send. It's not complicated. *From:* lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:09 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-14 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
10:56 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics 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

[FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-13 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-13 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-13 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-13 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote:   A perfect example of me not reading carefully. You are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-13 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
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@...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Biometrics

2014-08-13 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
She's only 38. :-( World’s greatest female chess player Judit Polgar retires http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/XqUmBlhIVnhbLkaahYtovN/Worlds-greatest-female-chess-player-Judit-Polgar-retires.html