Analytics Dispatch 4/29/2019
AI death metal
ZOOM AND ENHANCE
Techniques for Data Visualization on Both Mobile & Desktop
Making a visualization work on mobile and desktop can be a chore. Here's an array of options for when you get stuck. - Nadieh Bremer
STRIKE A CHORD
This YouTube Channel Streams AI-Generated Death Metal 24/7
Dadabots was developed by two music technologists who wanted to prove that a neural network was capable of capturing the subtle stylistic differences between Death Metal, Math Rock, and other lesser-known genres. - Motherboard
SNEAK AROUND
Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras: Adversarial Patches to Attack Person Detection
Not only could a simple color printout hide someone from an AI video surveillance system for nefarious purposes, it could offer protection to people who don't want to be tracked in everyday life. - arXiv
MISSING SOMETHING
Notes on AI Bias
Bias in AI doesn’t mean just bias against people. Sometimes it just picking up the wrong signal, period. Case in point: a system built to detect skin cancer was detecting rulers instead. - Benedict Evans
PREDICT THE RAINBOW
Follow-up: I Found Two Identical Packs of Skittles, Among 468 Packs With a Total of 27,740 Skittles
Analyzing packs of Skittles (or sometimes M&Ms) seems to be a very common exercise in introductory statistics. But what's the likelihood of identifying two identical packs of Skittles? And how does that likelihood stack up against reality? - Possibly Wrong