Celebrating quirky

NurdleNet is a blog dedicated to finding and sharing quirky, nifty, and enjoyably odd people, places, and things.
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More fun facial recognition to play with

Now you can see how you might look as another race, gender, or generation at Face of the Future.  Take a look at the results from Geeks are Sexy because mine were too weird to share – unfortunately the program doesn’t adjust for color other than applying skin tone and well, I didn’t see Asian [...]

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Mocking birds have your number

Who  would have guessed that mocking birds are better at facial recognition than the Virginia DMV?  And why aren’t we trying to use this amazing skill to tell troublesome humans from benign ones by scoping out airport security or something? Seems like there ought to be more uses for it.

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Is the DMV on to something by banning smiles?

Recently one of those quirky news stories hit when the Virginia DMV banned smiling for driver’s license and other ID photos.  The reasoning being that it messes up the facial recognition software.  They aren’t the first state to do this although I’m crossing my fingers that it doesn’t get to my state before my next [...]

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