“The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen. So far police have arrested five people using this technique of “predictive policing” and the rates of certain categories of crimes in the city have dropped significantly, perhaps as a result. The program has correctly predicted 40 percent of the crimes it was designed to monitor.”
Santa Cruz Cops Experiment With ‘Predictive Policing’ | TPM Idea Lab
If they’d just let us have the cool UI that they have for interacting with the precogs, that’d be fine.
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A quick test
… To see if I’ve managed to fix the encoding problems I was having.
Sometimes I think it’d be so much easier to just use Tumblr or Wordpress for my blog.
Ahah!
See, this is why I like Tumblr: there’s a WebOS client for it. There isn’t one for my blog, but at least I can repost my Tumblr items there…
Simple
I want to explore “simple” in photographic terms.
I spend so long thinking of interesting, intricate ideas - how to light this, where to stage that, what outfit the subject needs to wear - and I’m starting to forget the basic reason why I love doing what I do; capturing moments, feelings, glimpses of the strangers that live inside each and every one of the people I know.
Simple portraits. A conversation, window light, simple background. An exercise in talking and listening and trying to capture a moment in the subject’s life. Lose the falsehood of smile-for-the-camera; just wait for the right moment.
And I’m not pretending that this hasn’t been done, that Avedon didn’t do this with every one of his subjects (and do it magnificently, too). But it’s a challenge to me.
The Great Alone
Slideshow of photos from the Terra Nova and Imperial Transantarctic expeditions of the early 20th century.
Beautiful and haunting and achingly desolate.
No, you are not the centre of the universe
Flickriver →
I’m loving this site. It’s a great way to browse Flickr images without having to deal with the Flickr interface, which for pure, good old-fashioned browsing is a bit on the pants side and too full of distractions.
If you’ve half an hour to spare, check it out. You might find something you like.
Hurrah, I can now reblog things from Tumblr if I want to.
