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Re:Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child by run4yourlives2 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:30PM (#9963566)
That would probably cause a good deal of false alarms though.. people that aren't comfortable in water will have elevated heart rates every so often over normal stuff.

Maybe that's not such a bad thing overall though.

Re:Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child by hamiltonkibbe on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:47PM (#9963682)
My first thought was "Hey this is HN, and that's exactly what PCA is for!"

Followed shortly thereafter by "I wonder where you get/how you generate a dataset of the vital signs of drowning children..."

Re:Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child by trhway on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @03:26PM (#9963928)
>"I wonder where you get/how you generate a dataset of the vital signs of drowning children..."

panic attack data set will get you halfway there and panic attacks happen naturally and sufficiently frequently. Add the dataset from something like asthma attacks (unfortunately it is easy to obtain too).