All Purls. No Swine.
This isn't a Valentine's Day post. It's a copy of a six-year old Ricochet post, one for which the editors mangled the original title (which appears above), and which I like rather better than theirs. I was reminded of it earlier today when I was retrieving a bunch of drywall trowels from the garage, and… Continue reading I Know a Hawk From a Handsaw. And a Cat From Some Guacamole
One shortcoming of current machine-learning programs is that they fail in surprising and decidedly non-human ways. A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students recently demonstrated, for instance, how one of Google’s advanced image classifiers could be easily duped into mistaking an obvious image of a turtle for a rifle, and a cat for some… Continue reading I Know a Hawk From a Handsaw. And a Cat From Some Guacamole