Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)
Posted on January 9, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Circadiana: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask):
If you need to go to the bathroom in the evening or during the night, do not turn on the light. Can’t you find your vital organs in the dark? If neccessary, a very dim nightlight (or indirect light from the [...]
Passport to Nowhere
Posted on January 6, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Haven’t really covered the whole radio/biometrics passport angle much here, although there is a fair bit of discussion around the blogosphere. Anyways, I was reading my most recent copy of IEEE Spectrum, devoted to winners and losers for 2005, and came across the following article, designating radio/biometric passports a loser:
Passport to Nowhere:
If you want to [...]
OS Independent Fingerprint USB flash drive
Posted on January 6, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, fingerprint, gadget | Leave a Comment
I don’t normally write about fingerprint devices for the consumer market, because they don’t interest me, and I’m not sure I trust my data to biometrics only. However, SecureID has pointed me to an interesting development of a drive that protects your data with a fingerprint, but does not require client software to be installed [...]
Read More..>>Java Demo of EM algorithm
Posted on January 6, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | 2 Comments
I found this interesting demonstration of the EM algorithm for fitting mixture models to data linked from Paul Lamere’s blog Duke Listens!. As paul writes:
Many pattern classification problems (including speech recognition and music classification) are solved by using a set of probability distributions called mixture models to represent a single statistical distribution. The EM algorithm [...]
Samsung introduces speech-to-SMS mobile phones
Posted on January 5, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Samsung introduces speech-to-SMS mobile phones:
Samsung Telecommunications America is introducing speech-to-text dictation on mobile phones. This capability, available on two new Samsung phones, allows consumers to speak into the phone and have the phone convert those words directly into text. Using advanced voice activation technology, consumers also can send pre-programmed short messages with voice commands.
This is [...]
Face recognition of tsunami dead and injured
Posted on January 2, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Screenshots reports that Hong-Kong based biometric company RC group have set up a database of photos of many of the dead and injured in the recent south-asian tsunami that allows relatives to upload a photo for matching against the collected images. The service will even email or sms results as new victims are added to [...]
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