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Auto Facial Attractiveness Enhancement Engine - http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer...
Carrie Thomson, natasha william, Suresh S and 123 other people liked this
This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Facial discrimination?
- Jason
Impressive.
- j1m
Can I get one for the body as well as the face?
- Dion Almaer
Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it.
- Brady Brim-DeForest
It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :)
- Lindsay
@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?).
- Lindsay
Right one looks more dumb...
- Phil Smirnov
Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips.
- FFing Enigma
@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird.
- Lindsay
They are different women! Blame Paul! : )
- Erhan Erdoğan
impressive
- accexine
Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing.
- FFing Enigma
That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software.
- Jim Goldstein
from twhirl
I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty.
- arty
Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)"
- Charlie Anzman
Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;)
- Joe Beda
without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference.
- Zee.
Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :)
- felix
I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...)
- Rui Pires
+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
do i sense another manga-style meme starting?
- anna sauce
So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.)
- Kevin Fox
The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di
- xero
stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential".
- xero
I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people!
- Benedikt Koehler
Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this?
- xero
@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :)
- A. T.
I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse
- Dave Q
@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A
- Jason
this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people.
- Apostolos Tsompanopoulos
Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles.
- Hayes Haugen
Chris' comment is sooo tempting
- Charlie Anzman
This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed.
- Spidra Webster
I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?!
- ani
it's long gone.
- Hieronymous Boosh
It's down :(
- Burcu Dogan
cannot open this link,404 is there~
- 阿石
Ji Lee: Google Me Business Card - download template to print your own - http://www.pleaseenjoy.com/project...
Guy DOYEN, Dan Kaplan and Derek Lerner liked this
Cyber-Spies Hack Into Ultra-Sensitive Pentagon Fighter Jet Project - Cyber spies - http://i.gizmodo.com/5220755...
Lysender, Dan Kaplan, Allen Harkleroad and Alejandro liked this
"Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project and made off with several terabytes of code. The Pentagon, and consequently the Wall Street Journal, suspects Chinese involvement."
- AJ Batac
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Amazing Bird Fishes Like A Human - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Bill Romanos, Nicķ, Dan Kaplan and 6 other people liked this
Via Neatorama: "This video has stunned scientists around the world as this bird thinks critically just like a human to catch fish. Give a fish a piece of bread and it will won't be hungry for a day but teach it to fish...well you get it."
- Mark Trapp
love the narration. pretty cool bird
- Cee Bee
Funny :-)
- Richard A.
thinking about using FreshBooks for our billing system, looks like a great service, are any of you guys using it? http://www.freshbooks.com
Leandro Ardissone ⍨, Robert Scoble, brian cors and 4 other people liked this
Freshbooks is great. It even has a time-tracking widget that logs and uploads your time.
- Dan Kaplan
I used it for a while but stopped. it just didn't have a feature I needed. But, I really lke the service and it works quite well.
- Jason Shultz
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yeah, we use it - works great
- Zee.
I was scared off by discussions in their forum about an inability to have prepaid billings (retainers). I haven't gone back in a while but I also was not sure if the look of the invoice could be modified. The way it used the web for quotes was awesome -- I may still go back to it.
- Wayne Schulz
I used it for freelance work and it was great. Support is Good, too.
- Trevor F. Smith
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thanks for all the feedback guys
- Scott Beale
Freshbooks is great. I really like the format of the invoices and the ability to send invoices to more than one person at a company (via email or snail mail). Highly recommended.
- Laurence Toney
ppl seem to be big fans and I know a devel there. The other service I commonly hear mentioned is Harvest -- @missrogue use?
- Lloyd Budd
I'm using it and works great. I like the recurrent invoice sending to te client, and automatically connects to my Paypal account to receive my payment.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Machine Learning (Theory) » Adversarial Academia - http://hunch.net/?p=499
Rob Schonberger, Pawel Szczesny, Dan Kaplan and 6 other people liked this
Nice discussion of the idea that academia is a zero-sum game.
- Michael Nielsen
Makes only one cogent argument (#4) against the adversarial model. Flaws #1-3 are good reasons to move away from an adversarial system, but have nothing to do with whether or not it's a valid model of how academia actually works. As the author says, "adversarial viewpoint has a validity in proportion to the number of people subscribing to it" -- and that would be nearly everyone in academia.
- Bill Hooker
My experience has been that most academics subscribe at most partially to an adversarial model, and that the extent to which they subscribe is highly context-dependent. I've also met many who are routinely extraordinarily generous to others. Not that I expect Bill to agree, but that is my experience.
- Michael Nielsen
I think adversarial structures will simply die out. It's only a matter of time before information technology makes this possible (edit: through new reputation and reward systems). But then, I think practically all of academia will be put on its head. Of course, not everyone will be as fast to adapt to the new reality. Therefore, you will see great divergence in opinions and strategies employed by researchers. We're already seeing that, in fact.
- Meryn Stol
Dorothea - On the straight-up altruism thing: I've seen several colleagues make extraordinary and essentially unacknowledged gestures, simply to make the pie bigger for everyone, doing the right thing for science, but not obviously for their own careers. It certainly made me think about my own values, and gave me enormous respect for those people.
- Michael Nielsen
"personified awesome" is a most excellent phrase!
- Michael Nielsen
The comments are interesting in the way they show a really quite different community view of what is important than what I am used to.
- Cameron Neylon
by which I mean specifically the resistance to pre-prints and concern that it makes double blind reviewing difficult
- Cameron Neylon
True - it's just not a concern that I've heard before...
- Cameron Neylon
The idea is that altruistic behavior in science works because a collective of people can beat out any single adversarial opponent. Why, then, do the adversarials tend to organize and communicate better? Because viewing change as a threat connects more strongly to motivation, via emotion rather than intellect? Sounds like altruism is doomed (to remain really rare) unless we can get past that.
- Mr. Gunn
@Michael: I may be a little... jaded... it's true. I'll add only that I got that way for a reason; I didn't *start out* all cynical and vicious. Few people do, I think.
- Bill Hooker
Mr Gunn - on that issue, I think people naturally get selfish when they feel under extreme pressure themselves. Personally, I think that a lot of problems with adversarial culture would be solved by (a) training a more sustainable number of scientists; and (b) creating a culture in which leaving academia is seen as being just as worthwhile as becoming a hotshot prof.
- Michael Nielsen
Bill - I know there's a lot of variability, both between groups, and between fields. I've seen enough of the adversarial behaviour to know that I'd probably leave any field where that was really dominant. Life is too short.
- Michael Nielsen
Right on Michael! Seems like point (b) could help point (a). Are you suggesting adversarial people should be incentivized to leave academia, and how do you do that without making academia overall a less desirable place to be?
- Mr. Gunn
Strangely enough, I'm a non-adversarial person who left academia.
- Mr. Gunn
Mr Gunn - I wasn't quite suggesting that. I just mean that when resources feel less scarce, people aren't so adversarial. I've seen a very strong relationship between scarcity of resources (more precisely, the feeling that resources are scarce, which is not the same thing) in different fields, and how adversarial people are.
- Michael Nielsen
I know exactly what you mean, Michael. My apologies for asking such a leading question. ;-)
- Mr. Gunn
No need to apologize, Mr. Gunn. It was a perfectly reasonable question.
- Michael Nielsen
China censors Obama's inauguration speech - http://www.americablog.com/2009...
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The official Chinese translation of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech omitted his references to communism and dissent, and a live broadcast on state television Wednesday quickly cut away to the anchor when sensitive topics were mentioned. The comments by the newly installed U.S. president veered into politically sensitive territory for China's ruling Communist Party, which maintains a tight grip over the Internet and the entirely state-run media. Beijing tolerates little dissent and frequently decries foreign interference in its internal affairs.
- Alejandro
THE ILLUSION OF REALITY - BBC Documentary - http://video.google.com/videopl...
Hayk, Dan Kaplan and Ryan liked this
"In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality."
- ~C4Chaos
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'Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon' Game Provides Clue To Efficiency Of Complex Networks - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
FFing Enigma, Roney Smith, Jan Aerts and 5 other people liked this
I remember studying gradients in calculus in college and it was and still is one of my favorite mathematical concepts ever! Gradients were explained as the most efficient, drip drop slide of a grain of sand down a sandhill.
- Roney Smith
Pork's Dirty Secret: The nation's top hog producer is also one of America's worst polluters - http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...
ThePicMan, costis, Ryan and 31 other people liked this
Sorry to spoil the bacon fun, but as a veg, I could only let it go on so long. The pork industry is rotten to the core.
- Nicķ
I buy my pork related products from sources that aren't horrible. If you buy your meat from Whole Foods, you'll pay more but get much higher quality meat that's nothing like the company profiled. Yes, much of the pork industry is disgusting.
- iTad
I'm not a vegetarian now, but when I lived in rural Missouri I was. Whole Foods cannot be found on every street corner, and not everyone can afford it anyway. What's really sad is that if you're poor in the midwest you're probably eating pork and therefore contributing to massive pig-shit lagoons that are extremely dangerous to your own safety. Vegetarianism is a nutritious and affordable habit we could all learn something from.
- Jason Wehmhoener
don't blame me! I'm Hallal
- NoahDavidSimon
i'm hitting the LIKE button very reluctantly. in this case it should be called "DO NOT FORGET"
- sean808080
Luter, the owner of Smithfield, wants to expand in Europe, particularly in Poland and Romania. The bastard! After having killed millions of fish, made countless people sick here in the US, and ruined rivers and watersheds in North Carolina for everybody, now wants to do the same in Europe. And smarmy politicians here in the States have done nothing to stop him -- after getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from him, that is. People like this are the real terrorists.
- Raoul Pop
Bacon will destroy the world, but it's oh so good.
- Morton Fox
I "liked" this to draw attention to it.
- CJ
It's worth it. What did grass ever do for me on a burger?
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
So has Mona read this? Just wondering... ;-)
- Nicķ
Whoa! this entire article is GROOOOOOOOOSSSSSSS!!! wow. this is ungodly farming folks. this Pig Farming CEO dude's is sick in the head from all those fumes! Vegetarianism has for a long time been proven to be good for you and the environment...this should be on the front page news, but it's not.
- Susan Beebe
Thanks sincerely for the reminder...
- Bill Sodeman
hmmmm... not good for Bacon, but breakfast is still for winners.
- Thomas Hawk
It's why I don't eat meat, thanks for this post. Reblogging.
- Ryan
My pork does not come from these sorts of places. However, I will never buy Smithfield again even in an emergency pinch situation. Thanks for the link.
- ThePicMan
ba-dee ba-dee ba-dee That's yuckie, folks! ...
- Mark Elster
This looks like a lost opportunity to take advantage of the biogas. http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY...
- zphaze
I don't eat much meat at home, but this is certainly going to make me rethink that order of bacon and eggs at a diner.
- Nicholas Molnar
I just emailed Paula Dean the link to this RS article. I am sure she will never see it, but I am sick of her Smithfield commercials on FoodTV.
- ThePicMan
Behind the Wheel - 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 - An Exotic ’Vette for the Jet Set - Review - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Dan Kaplan liked this
638 horses!
- Mohamed J
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Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Detected Across Billions Of Light Years - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
Sean McBride and Dan Kaplan liked this
Anyone have $33 left? That gives one Ethiopian clean water for 20 years: http://www.charitywater.org/ Puts a lot in perspective today, no?
Casey, Josh Wills, Crystal English and 10 other people liked this
If you are feeling like you really want to dig your soul out of the doghouse (as maybe I did...), $4,000 buys one permanent well for an entire village. They give you the GPS coordinates of your specific village too. Feels awesome.
- Christopher Sacca
i've reshared this to the community service room.
- Anika
I've been a fan of (and donor to) WaterPartners International, http://www.water.org, for a few years now. UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/ also provides clean water through its Water for Life initiative, which I learned of through this documentary http://www.mtv.com/thinkmt... by Jay-Z and my cousin, Arunabha Ghosh, then of the UN.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I think that clean water gives the best leverage to your charitable dollars. Unsanitary water is a major cause of completely preventable disease, which keeps children from going to school and poor people from going to work, besides causing suffering in itself. So the benefits from your donation to clean water accrue in a virtuous circle.
- Ruchira S. Datta
And when the water table runs dry, what do they do
- Antonio Piccolboni
The Daily Beast: Black Presidents Video Mashup - http://www.thedailybeast.com/
R. Ferguson, Michael W. May, joneilortiz and Dan Kaplan liked this
"Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Richard Pryor on Obama's predecessors, in a Beast mash."
- Jason Toney
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the raw video file is here: http://media.thedailybeast.com/dailybe...
- Hashim Warren
Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial Crisis - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ontario Emperor, MikeAmundsen, Hashim Warren and 3 other people liked this
aphex twin - come to daddy - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Vox and Dan Kaplan liked this
Scariest music video ever? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Evernote Hits a Homerun With API, Data Portability http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Sarah Perez, Matthew Gifford and 5 other people liked this
++ for Evernote. keeps getting better
- Andy Sternberg
Maybe we'll see some hooks into various OS notes applications...
- Glenn Batuyong
Yay for Evernote!!!
- Lindsay
HelixGene | Home | Foundation for Better Genomic Medicine - http://www.helixgene.com/
Dan Kaplan, Pierre Lindenbaum and Nils Reinton liked this
Double like !! No, ...like X 100
- Nils Reinton
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized - http://lifehacker.com/5054947...
accexine, Casey, adolfo foronda and 5 other people liked this
"Even if you're a hyper-organized, task-oriented worker with an expansive mind and endless ambition, you won't get a lot done if your mind and body are demanding you curl up and doze off. Luckily, you can overcome a late night of net surfing, a rough morning, or just the post-lunch stupor without becoming an over-wired mess. We've put together 10 of the best ways to jumpstart your brain and get back into a productive groove, and all of them are tricks you can put to work this Monday."
- ~C4Chaos
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Let's do the opposite - sometimes it's good to just get some rest.
- Evan
@Evan: actually, that's the top #1 tip :) http://bit.ly/2WSu5f
- ~C4Chaos
Shhhh, don't let people figure out that I didn't see it, even though I checked the link before posting :-/
- Evan
Space Westerns: The Art of Cowboys and Killer Robots - http://io9.com/5055462...
Daniel Schildt and Dan Kaplan liked this
n 2003, artist Sunny Buick conceived and curated SCI-FI Western, an exhibition of art inspired by both science fiction and the American frontier. Taking the analogy of space as the new Old West to the next level, the participating artists juxtaposed B-movie imagery from westerns and science fiction with bizarre and surprisingly poignant results.
- michael sean wright
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Early build of iPhone 2.2 OS has a new version of Safari, no copy & paste or Push Notification yet - http://venturebeat.com/2008...
Phil Glockner and Dan Kaplan liked this
If it doesn't have push and c&p, I'm not interested. Surrrrious.
- Phil Glockner
How about my turn-by-turn?
- Cyndy
good question cyndy, i'll try to look into that.
- MG Siegler
Turn-by-turn would be totally awesome. Push notification is second, cut/paste is third. I do wish there were a cut/paste feature, but I wouldn't use it nearly as much as turn-by-turn directions.
- Cheryl Jones
US Army Invests in 'Thought Helmet' Technology for Voiceless Communication - http://www.kurzweilai.net/news...
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Microsoft's Mundie outlines the future of computing - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
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It had so much potential. - http://macnugget.org/photos...
Czar, Victor Ryden 美久太阿, Morton Fox and 7 other people liked this
we still have about 200 3.5 floppies my husband refuses to part with. problem: the only computers that can even read them are both dead.
- Anika
I also kept all my floppies, I'm thinking that maybe my kids, grand-kids, etc, would get a kick out of seeing for themselves this old technology, just like I love playing around with old antique gear. I also kept my old computers.
- Vincent X
I still have, somewhere, all 20+ floppies required to install OS/2 1.3 and 2.1.
- Akiva
I trashed mine in the last move.
- Russellreno
I still have Turbo Pascal install disks somewhere.
- Morton Fox
I have an 8" floppy.
- iTad
Tad wins :)
- Imabug
oh tad *facepalm*
- Anika
oh, I had my FidoNet point running on Desqview as multitasker over DOS ;) back in beginning of 90s ;)
- A. T.
10 Accurate Non-Human/Human Look Alike Pictures - http://www.uncoached.com/2008...
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Ordinarybug Heather, Rachel Walden, Dan Kaplan and 11 other people liked this
yeah, the posh spice was was my favorite too :)
- Zee.
Topless Robot - Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Transvestite Videogame Musicals - http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008...
Soup in a TARDIS, Jessie, Cee Bee and Dan Kaplan liked this
"Sure it sounds bizarre, and yes, it totally is. However, Japan loves their musicals, having had several for anime series like Bleach, The Prince of Tennis and Sailor Moon on the past (Sailor Moon actually had three different musicals, if I recall correctly). But what makes this special is that the famed Takarazuka Revue is doing the show, which is a highly popular, all-woman musical theater group that has done this sort of thing for almost 100 years."
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