The bullshit "image enhancement" button that they have in shows like CSI is finally leaving the realm of science fiction and entering reality, where it can be revealed that "enhancing" an image from data you don't have is just a word for "making shit up"https://twitter.com/nickstenning/status/1274374729101651968?s=20 …
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Like the vast majority of this Big Data stuff people try to sell you is a human analyst who already has their own opinion about a social phenomenon or whatever and then carefully looks for datasets and algorithms for interpreting them that sound like they match what they think
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The idea that a computer is at all capable of answering a question like "How do Generation Z youths feel about Obama's legacy" is obscene, it's ridiculous But people act like doing a term search on Instagram comments or something can "approximate" this somehow
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I was once writing a thing about this once upon a time where people have sought Oracles from as long as writing has been around, an urge to make the unknown future known, some threw bones or spoke with ghosts - and what services fill this need now.
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