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Rising above the clouds…

Rising above the clouds… I tried a lot of crops on this (otherwise it’s unmodified) but finally settled on the square because I wanted enough of both the rooftops and the sky bracketing the clouds and mountain, and I wanted to steer clear of some of the foreground buildings that would have appeared on the sides and break up the layout

Photo taken at: Los Angeles, California

Rising above the clouds… I tried a lot of crops on this (otherwise it’s unmodified) but finally settled on the square because I wanted enough of both the rooftops and the sky bracketing the clouds and mountain, and I wanted to steer clear of some of the foreground buildings that would have appeared on the sides and break up the layout.

#mountain #clouds #cityscape

On Photog.Social

It’s possible to add noise to an image that the human brain filters out, but that will cause computers to misclassify it.

Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Completely Fool Machine Learning Algorithms

From the still-needs-work department: It’s possible to add noise to an image that the human brain filters out (or doesn’t even notice), but that will cause computers to misclassify it. Amusing when you’re sorting photos of animals, but dangerous when it convinces a self-driving car that a stop sign is simply reporting a speed limit.

On Facebook

Social networking experiment creates the amalgamated platonic ideal Facebook & Twitter users.

An interesting social networking experiment: Someone set up profiles on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, then publicized the passwords so anyone could use them, creating an amalgam of the ultimate Facebook or Twitter account. (Instagram’s didn’t take off.)

An interesting and (dare I say it) revealing experiment.

Here’s what bugging your own office NSA-style can reveal

A US reporter for National Public Radio found that NSA-style broad surveillance enabled by a pen-testing device and software crunching picked up on his research (in spite of Google’s default search encryption), intercepted uncut interview tape, ferreted out his interview subjects’ phone numbers and email addresses, and more.

An interesting and (dare I say it) revealing experiment.

Prop 8 “fails to advance any rational basis…”

Republican-appointed judge overturns government restriction on personal freedom. Shouldn’t conservatives be happier about this?

–Twitter

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/prop8-gay-marriage.html

I like this quote from the judge, saying that Prop 8 “fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. … Because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.”

–FB