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As he chewed his salmon, Shane thought about the questions Fabian had asked. He’d always imagined that the hockey world’s reaction if he and Ilya were ever found out would be the biggest nightmare to deal with, but maybe the bigger challenge was hiding. Maybe keeping how he felt about Ilya a secret was more draining than facing the backlash.
The Long Game
Rachel Reid
Take Bellevue, Washington. The city needed to conduct a safety study as part of their Vision Zero efforts (see sidebar). Bellevue planners didn't want to wait years for patterns to emerge from actual collisions, so they worked with Transoft Solutions to automatically analyze 5,000 hours of footage from 40 existing HD traffic cams, and identified nearly 20,000 "near misses" among pedestrians, cyclists, cars, buses, and other road users — data that could previously only be identified from qualitative and manual review of video footage of an intersection.
The Art of Learning by Example
Feature Extraction
Most of the cost of information is not incurred by the producers, Simon argues, but the recipients. The solution? Content curation — a system that, as he put it, “listens and thinks more than it speaks,” that thinks of curation in terms of withholding useless bait so that a recipient’s attention is not wasted flitting from one silly provocation to another.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA
Renée DiResta
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