Ulysse Sabbagh

Using a combination of facial recognition software and machine learning algorithms, researchers have trained computers to be dramatically better than humans at reading pained facial expressions.

I originally thought we, as humans, could understand basic emotions very naturally but research has shown that we’re right only ±50% of the time.

We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end “we” own it!

Here’s a nice thought.

Great introduction, if you need one.

Interviews with interesting people, pulled from reddit, organized, and made prettier

Awesome stuff.

Anyone creating content is constantly looking for that “aha!” moment–when the project comes alive and makes sense. For Petty, that doesn’t come from gathering screen shots of other people’s work or making everything work on paper. It comes from trying things that might not work, mistake after mistake until the mistakes line up and everything fits.

Dann Petty did some UI work for Medium and is now leading design at Hum.

So what makes an economy “fat”? The United States is a prime example. Plenty is normal. Gross national income is close to $50,000 per person. There are downsides. The United States has one of the world’s highest obesity rates and has grappled with other, more figurative “fat” problems: a subprime mortgage epidemic, pay-to-play politics, a dangerous taste for fossil fuels. Other countries are also struggling to pay the wages of wealth. South Korea has declared Internet addiction a public health concern. Aging nations in Europe are scrambling to defuse the time bomb of generous pension programs. The consumption-fueled financial crisis exposed bloat from Iceland to Italy. Subsequent “austerity” measures have put fat economies in jeopardy for decades to come.

Dayo Olopade argues that the term “developing world” is not adequate anymore. There are fat countries (the US, Europe) and lean countries (African countries who avoided the crisis because of their insulation). An interesting idea.