Showing posts with label ambiguity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ambiguity. Show all posts

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Hiding in Plain Sight

This is obviously an air conditioner

AI image recognition fooled by single pixel change
Nov 2017, BBC

Computers can be fooled into thinking a picture of a taxi is a dog just by changing one pixel, suggests research.

The limitations emerged from Japanese work on ways to fool widely used AI-based image recognition systems.

Many other scientists are now creating "adversarial" example images to expose the fragility of certain types of recognition software.

"There is certainly something strange and interesting going on here, we just don't know exactly what it is yet," he said.

Monday, May 15, 2017

Smearing the Clock

This image was made by smearing together hundreds of photos; it's by Toronto photographer Matt Molloy, and it's called time-stacking. Source.

I wrote a whole book on approximation and ambiguity. Not really; it was about smells and how the language of smells is imprecise and ambiguous.

But really, we see here how the slowly thawing truth of a quantum science is smearing our sense of reality all over the place:

'Blurred times' in a quantum world
Mar 2017, phys.org

The more precise a given clock is, the more it "blurs" the flow of time measured by neighbouring clocks.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Dis/Ambiguity

Article on Ambiguity is Ambiguous, go figure:


for good measure; the disambiguation of disambiguation: