#10YearChallenge and data mining

Grace

If I was a conspiracy theorist my head will be spinning right now…

Regards

*Ali Hussein*

*Principal*

*AHK & Associates*

Tel: +254 713 601113

Twitter: @AliHKassim

Skype: abu-jomo

LinkedIn: ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
<ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>

13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,

Chiromo Road, Westlands,

Nairobi, Kenya.

Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
organizations that I work with.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:56 PM Grace Githaiga via kictanet <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
> “If you use social media, you’ve probably noticed a trend across
> Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now
> profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year.
>
> Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on
> age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression
> (e.g., how people are likely to look as they get older). Ideally, you’d
> want a broad and rigorous dataset with lots of people’s pictures. It would
> help if you knew they were taken a fixed number of years apart—say, 10
> years….
>
> In other words, thanks to this meme, there’s now a very large dataset of
> carefully curated photos of people from roughly 10 years ago and now.”
>
> Read more on: www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge/
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> —
> Grace Githaiga
> Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
>
> _______________________________________________
> kictanet mailing list
> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
> lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet
> Facebook: www.facebook.com/KICTANet/
>
> Unsubscribe or change your options at
> lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/info%40alyhussein.com
>
> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
>
> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
> online that you follow in real life: respect people’s times and bandwidth,
> share knowledge, don’t flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>

_______________________________________________
kictanet mailing list

KICTANet Admin information

Related Posts

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.