No matter how bad you draw, you’ll like this game that shows how Google AI learns.
Watch this video to learn in a minute, then play it yourself
Help teach it by adding your drawings to the world’s largest doodle data set, which could be shared publicly to help with machine learning research in the future.
Shelly Palmer has the best explanation I’ve read about rigged media.I only disagree slightly on one point. The publishers and editor DO want to benefit. They also want to see more people benefit by getting the attention and distribution a piece of news needs. Far from altruistic, they know that doing good is good for them.The problem comes when we don’t understand each others motives.
Read what Shelly says here, and be sure to subscribe to his blog/newsletter if you want great insights about the media
All news content is edited before it is distributed, which means news content always has an editorial point of view. Consider the following.
An ancient tribesman runs into the middle of his encampment to report a breaking news story. Breathlessly he begins, “We were out hunting by the big tree near the valley. We hunted and killed a gazelle, and just as we were preparing to bring it back here, we lost it, and Kushim the Farmer was killed.”
Noticing that his story was not gathering much of a crowd, he created a quick promo by yelling, “Hey! You gotta hear this.” Then he amped up the intensity of his delivery, raised his voice, and editorialized a bit. Pointing to his bloodstained garments (art always enhances a standup), he continued, “We were attacked by a huge group of evil men from a nearby tribe. It was an ambush. We fought until the sun was high in the sky. They killed Kushim the Farmer and they stole our food.”
The editorial embellishment worked. His audience got bigger and he had their undivided attention, which he could now use to his own benefit.
Our ancient reporter was a self-publisher who owned both the content and the distribution. He also had methods for measuring engagement, total audience, demographics, geographics and psychographics as well as intention, attention and attribution.
But there were no fact checkers. Maybe Kushim fell off a cliff or our reporter killed him (accidentally or purposefully). Was there a fight? Was there a gazelle? Were these the facts? Are the nearby tribespeople truly “evil men?” Without third-party verification, without eyewitnesses, is this news or just a good story? Editorial license is powerful.
Fast-forward 40,800 years (that’s the age of the oldest known piece of manmade media), and nothing has changed. Nothing!
The goal of media is to be seen by the biggest (fill in your success metric here) audience, and the news business has always been editorialized (rigged, if you will) to benefit the publisher.
To attract sponsors (or other benefactors), audiences need to be measured and packaged. The MSM Grail Quest is to ensure (at scale) that the right people see the right message at the right time. Bigger ratings mean bigger profits. Not only are all MSM outlets “rigged” to accomplish this, Darwinian selection rewards ratings winners and punishes ratings losers to extinction.
Even independent news organizations live or die by ratings. To the masses, a blogger with a million Twitter followers and two million likes on Facebook is obviously more popular (and therefore more relevant) than a blogger with 50 Twitter followers and a few hundred likes on Facebook. So, independent media is rigged the same way MSM is rigged.
“If it bleeds, it leads!” Car crashes, murders, robberies, fires, gas leak explosions, and similar sensational events have traditionally been the headlines that attract the biggest audiences. But that’s old school. A new system has evolved that is horrifyingly rigged to gather the biggest possible ratings -you can call it “infotainment” or “punditainment” or “we’re here to say what you want to hear whether it’s true or not-entertainment” or “we ran out of pundits and talking heads so we’re using our own anchors and reporters as guest and subject matter expert-ertainment” or, just call it what it is: “post-truth media.” It’s a category of content forcefully rigged to attract and engage the largest possible specified audiences -all other priorities are rescinded.
Our free press is not free. It is a for-profit, competitive marketplace and the competitors are highly incentivized to make editorial choices that give them the best chance of commercial success. This misalignment of incentives and outcomes is immutable.
To make matters worse, as technological improvement empowers even greater consumer control, aggregating an audience and packaging it will require even more extreme editorial choices. After all, it’s way more fun to hear about a scandal than it is to listen to a presentation of “who, what, where, when and how” facts that may take you out of your comfort zone.
So, it is YOU who have rigged the system. Your preferences for conflict over substance. Your belief that someone with thousands of likes or followers must be smarter and more accurate and more interesting than someone with only a few. Your confirmation bias has rigged the MSM for at least the past 40,800 years. If you want to unrig it, stop paying attention to post-truth media. You are the only reason it exists.
GoPro revealed its new Hero 5 Black camera in September, but the camera has apparently been hiding a trick up its sleeve since then. The company announced this week that it will start letting users take the data from the sensors inside the Hero 5 Black and overlay it on top of their footage.
The “telemetry feature,” as GoPro is calling it, can show things like speed, altitude, and G-force. It will also pull data from the GPS unit inside the Hero 5 Black to generate a map of where you were and how far you went as you captured that footage. Users will be able to move these telemetry overlays around and resize them, too. The data overlays won’t, however, work with the new Hero 5 Session, which doesn’t have a GPS unit
You must use GoPro’s Quik for Desktop to access all this data
GoPro is not the first action camera maker to offer a feature like this — it’s been a main selling point of Garmin’s cameras since that company got into this market in 2014. And there’s a catch here, too: you have to use GoPro’s desktop editor (Quik for Desktop) to access all this data. That’s a shame, because GoPros have gotten a lot easier to use on the go in the last year or so thanks to some big refinements to the company’s mobile app.
You’ll need version 2.1 of Quik for Desktop to work with the new telemetry feature. Once you have it, click on the settings wheel and flip the “Gauges” toggle. The process after that is also a bit tricky right now. After you pull up a clip and get the telemetry to show up, you’ll have to save it as a new clip — if you try to immediately export that footage to Facebook or YouTube, it won’t bring the data along with it.
The feature isn’t going to draw in any new users, or do much for people who use the company’s cameras to capture family moments or create more artistic videos. But it’s a nice addition for core GoPro users — the ones who tend to use the cameras while they surf, swim, bike, race, skydive, or do any other sort of crazy activity.
GoPro revealed its new Hero 5 Black camera in September, but the camera has apparently been hiding a trick up its sleeve since then. The company announced this week that it will start letting users take the data from the sensors inside the Hero 5 Black and overlay it on top of their footage.
The “telemetry feature,” as GoPro is calling it, can show things like speed, altitude, and G-force. It will also pull data from the GPS unit inside the Hero 5 Black to generate a map of where you were and how far you went as you captured that footage. Users will be able to move these telemetry overlays around and resize them, too. The data overlays won’t, however, work with the new Hero 5 Session, which doesn’t have a GPS unit
GoPro is not the first action camera maker to offer a feature like this — it’s been a main selling point of Garmin’s cameras since that company got into this market in 2014. And there’s a catch here, too: you have to use GoPro’s desktop editor (Quik for Desktop) to access all this data. That’s a shame, because GoPros have gotten a lot easier to use on the go in the last year or so thanks to some big refinements to the company’s mobile app.
You’ll need version 2.1 of Quik for Desktop to work with the new telemetry feature. Once you have it, click on the settings wheel and flip the “Gauges” toggle. The process after that is also a bit tricky right now. After you pull up a clip and get the telemetry to show up, you’ll have to save it as a new clip — if you try to immediately export that footage to Facebook or YouTube, it won’t bring the data along with it.
The feature isn’t going to draw in any new users, or do much for people who use the company’s cameras to capture family moments or create more artistic videos. But it’s a nice addition for core GoPro users — the ones who tend to use the cameras while they surf, swim, bike, race, skydive, or do any other sort of crazy activity.
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The founder of KIND bars, Daniel Lubetzky, is channeling $25m of his own money into a public advocacy organization called Feed the Truth, to “expose and counteract” the influence of food industry lobbyists over public health.
Why? Because according to him, “Big Food” companies have too much say over FDA regulations, and, in turn, public opinion about what’s healthy.
Case in point: The stigma against fat
In 2015, the FDA sent KIND a letter requesting that they remove the word “healthy” from the packaging and marketing of their snack bars.
That’s because, according to regulations, you can only claim something is healthy if it is “low in saturated fat” (aka, it contains less than 1g of saturated fat per typical amount consumed, and less than 15% of the calories come from saturated fat).
In comparison, KIND’s Fruit & Nut Almond & Apricot bars have 3.5g of saturated fat per 40g bar (about 18% of the total calories).
On the flip side, these guidelines still allow some high-sugar products to use “health food” labeling.
Now Lubetzky’s calling them out
He claims that corporations like Coke and Nestle have had a huge impact on research performed by the FDA, and portrayed foods with high sugar and sodium to be relatively harmless — in part by villainizing fat.
And there’s a ton of truth to that.
The food and beverage industry spends billions lobbying regulators and funding complementary research that often suggests that the verdict’s still out on the negative impact of salt and sugar (though many health professionals would disagree).
Clearly, there’s a problem here
And we’d love for Feed the Truth to blow the lid off this case as much as the next guy, provided Lubetzky can stay as removed from it as he claims.
KIND clearly has a vested interested in clearing fat’s name for the sake of its own products, but Lubetzky says he’ll have nothing to do with deciding the organization’s approach. Hmm…
