Brian - pretty cool. There are a few of the TED talks that I've enjoyed. In particular, the brilliant Blaise Aguera y Arcas on "Photosynth", which is pretty impressive.
Where Roy's work gets really cool is when you move beyond the visualizations that he's doing to actual predictive modeling. Maybe his data will be able to tell us about better ways to teach children speech, or ways for politicians to be more effective leaders - but for that his data needs to be passed down the chain to the machine learning community. I'm sure it will get there eventually if it hasn't already.
On a related note, a guy I know named Michael Scott (not a joke) gave a talk recently on the amount of space needed to record an entire human life in HD with a wearable camera. It's doable now, and we're only a few hours of magnitude away from having that capability in commodity hardware. That will be some serious data.
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Brian - pretty cool. There are a few of the TED talks that I've enjoyed. In particular, the brilliant Blaise Aguera y Arcas on "Photosynth", which is pretty impressive.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html
Where Roy's work gets really cool is when you move beyond the visualizations that he's doing to actual predictive modeling. Maybe his data will be able to tell us about better ways to teach children speech, or ways for politicians to be more effective leaders - but for that his data needs to be passed down the chain to the machine learning community. I'm sure it will get there eventually if it hasn't already.
On a related note, a guy I know named Michael Scott (not a joke) gave a talk recently on the amount of space needed to record an entire human life in HD with a wearable camera. It's doable now, and we're only a few hours of magnitude away from having that capability in commodity hardware. That will be some serious data.
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