Tag: images

Neighborhood appraisal

a new algorithm consistently outperformed humans at a variation of the task in which users are shown 2 photos and asked which scene is closer to a McDonald’s. To create the algorithm, the team trained a computer on a set of 8m Google images from 8 major US cities that were embedded with GPS data on crime rates and McDonald’s locations. They then used deep-learning techniques to help the program teach itself how different qualities of the photos correlate. For example, the algorithm independently discovered that some things you often find near McDonald’s franchises include taxis, police vans, and prisons.

Peak Flying

In 2008, Singapore Airlines introduced their Suites Class, the most luxurious class of flying that is commercially available. The Suites were exclusive to their flagship Airbus A380, and they go beyond flat beds by offering enclosed private cabins with sliding doors that cocoon you in your own little lap of luxury. The interior was designed by French luxury yacht designer Jean-Jacques Coste and comes along with a plush soft leather armchair hand-stitched by the Italian master craftsmen Poltrona Frau. Perhaps most well-known of all, Singapore Airlines became the first and only commercial airline with a double bed in the sky.

Red Mars

the odds of this not sucking are very high. maybe we could get an establishing shot of

Vince Gerardis is moving from Westeros to Mars. The “Game of Thrones” co-executive producer is teaming with Spike TV to develop the scifi series “Red Mars,” an adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy novels.