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A very nice update to Amazon Rekognition: improved face detection, analysis, and recognition capabilities in challenging conditions. Detect 40% more faces, match faces with 30% better accuracy, and get improved attributes (age, gender, emotion).

Unusual angles...
Motion blur and a partially obscured face...
Or a unique pose and backlighting!
Learn more at aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…
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Late last month we launched a very helpful self-service management feature for Amazon WorkSpaces. Users can change their running mode, compute type, and disk size. They can also rebuild their WorkSpace. The feature is accessible from two locations. First, before signing in:
And second, while already signed in:
I can increase the size of my C: and D: volumes
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New #AWS Email Preference Center at pages.awscloud.com/communication-…

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Amazon Rekognition Update - More Accurate Object and Scene Detection: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what… . Now returns bounding boxes for each object it identifies:
You can use that info to know how many occurrences of a detected object are in an image (Here are Carlitos and Luna taking a break after a hard day of doing nothing):
And you can look at overlap and relative position of bounding box to infer relationships, such as the fact that it is me (circa 1964) wearing the suit:
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Let me tell you the story of how I was congratulating myself for being such a good guy, when I was actually being a dick.
Last night I ordered McDonald’s and did the curb side pickup. As I was waiting a young guy without hat and gloves approached my window. I wound it down and he said ‘ That he hadn’t eaten in days and could I give him some money’
I, of course, lied and said that I didn’t have any. He then asked ‘ Could I buy him some food?’ I decided that if he really wanted food, he could have the order I had coming. He was thankful, and even went inside to get some condiments
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(1 of 8) An excellent article on US Navy Seawolf-class submarines! Here are a few excerpts:
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(2 of 8) The extreme quietness of the Seawolf class gave the Navy the idea of modifying the last submarine, USS Jimmy Carter, to support clandestine operations. An extra one hundred feet was added to the hull, a section known as the Multi-Mission Platform (MMP).
(3 of 8) The MMP gives Carter the ability to send and recover Remotely Operated Vehicles/Unmanned Underwater Vehicles and SEALs and diving teams while submerged. It includes berthing for up to fifty SEALs or other attached personnel.
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I've been a mere spectator to the Wansink scandal, but I think the cautionary tale is worth amplifying across the fields of statistics, medicine & the entire research community. Thus far, the discussion *seems* mostly confined to psychology researchers & some statisticians.
I think it’s important to spread this story across all research for those who may not be aware i) what has happened and ii) why it’s a big deal.
I’m going to link several tweets, threads, and articles at the end of the thread. In the first 11 Tweets, here is the “short” version for those unaware of the Wansink scandal:
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Dani Carvajal: "I think Messi and Cristiano are hardy comparable. Although both are very different, hey are two of the best players in history.
"Messi is a player who generates more football, who has a better vision for a pass. He is a player who always has the ball stuck to his foot, who finds space. Cristiano focuses on getting into the area and scoring. He is an annihilator. They are different, but also so good."
Carvajal: "Modric, Cristiano and Messi are my candidates for the Balon D'or. I think Messi and Cristiano are a level above the rest."
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#UPDATE on Smile Communications service outage. At an arbitration meeting between Smile Communications & Eaton Towers held at UCC, the meeting resolved administrative issues that recently affected the delivery of communication services to Smile customers.
See details below...
In an arbitration meeting between the two Smile Communications and Eaton Towers (infrastructure provider), it was agreed to reconnect all Smile sites that had been previously switched off to the benefit of all stakeholders concerned & this was done even before the meeting ended.
The parties to the arbitration agreed to sign a temporary addendum to allow re-connection and service restoration pending conclusion of the ongoing negotiations for a new service provisioning agreement.
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Thanks to Trump's embassy move, #Nakba70 protests start a day early. Israeli army expects West Bank protests & 100,000 demonstrators in #Gaza, is preparing to use lethal force against them & again threatens to air bomb Gaza. 49 Palestinians killed & 9,545 wounded so far in Gaza
Here is a short #thread about the #Nakba
And here is my #thread about developments related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from yesterday
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