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Visual speech recognition (VSR) aims to recognise the content of speech based on the lip movements without relying on the audio stream. Advances in deep learning and the availability of large audio-visual datasets have led to the development of much more accurate and robust VSR models than ever before. However, these advances are usually due to larger training sets rather than the model design. In this work, we demonstrate that designing better models is equally important to using larger training sets. We propose the addition of prediction-based auxiliary tasks to a VSR model and highlight the importance of hyper-parameter optimisation and appropriate data augmentations. We show that such model works for different languages (English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian) and outperforms all previous methods trained on publicly available datasets by a large margin. It even outperforms models that were trained on non-publicly available datasets containing up to to 21 times more data. We show furthermore that using additional training data, even in other languages or with automatically generated transcriptions, results in further improvement.

"Adopt, adapt, invent"

>The system, developed by Apple and Google, transmits a signal from your phone allowing it to swap 'randomised keys' with other phones

>These 'randomised keys' don't include any personal information or location data.

>The app has been endorsed by the Privacy Commissioner, with the Ministry of Health committing to releasing the source code of the app

Pants

The coalition arranged a purchase of the masks in China, which were flown back to Massachusetts Thursday aboard a New England Patriots private plane.

Doubts have been raised about the validity of this hypothesis - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25828

There are several virtual whiteboards to choose from

Original source is down - coincidence?

https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/the-great-...

Are we pretending there is no longer porn on Tumblr?

Cool, TIL - thank you

HN users find circumventing WaPo paywall is child's play

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Google Cloud Console Incident #19008 We are currently experiencing an issue with authentication to Google App Engine sites, the Google Cloud Console, Identity Aware Proxy, and Google OAuth 2.0 endpoints.

Incident began at 2019-08-19 11:30 and ended at 2019-08-19 13:27 (all times are US/Pacific).

Tesla has been quietly installing 'powerpacks' in New Zealands power grid for the past two years.

Second test, after first test was aborted - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/07/spacex-resume-starho...

Curiously, https://old.reddit.com is up

Curiously, https://old.reddit.com is up

Research: https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak

The first in a series of reports co-authored by the Network Contagion Research Institute and ADL’s Center on Extremism.

http://ncri.io/about-us/

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) deploys machine learning tools to expose hate on digital social networks within a cross-platform, public-minded, and global framework. We are a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers who apply our technical skills to further public insight into the problem of online hate. We examine how hateful images and language grow within and between Web communities and how the infection of hate spreads between the online and the real world.

The condition of hate afflicts our capacity to see ourselves clearly, speak plainly to one another, and to assume collective and personal responsibility for our conditions.

Tesla said it recorded one accident for every 2.91 million miles driven in autopilot during the last quarter of 2018.

What is the human crash rate per 3 million miles driven?

Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller and arrested Friday on charges of obstruction, giving false statements and witness tampering.

Allegedly

Organization 1= Wikileaks

Person 1= Jerome Corsi

Person 2= Randy Credico or Jerome Corsi

Bannon is one of "senior Trump Campaign officials"

(Supposedly) Lee Gambles comment on Reddit -

"Hi. I am the original taker of the photo. There is a screen that normally shows peppes pizza advertisements in front of peppes pizza in Oslo S. The advertisements had crashed revealing what was running underneath the ads. As I approached the screen to take a picture, the screen began scrolling with my generic information - That I am young male (sorry my profile picture was misleading, not a woman), wearing glasses, where I was looking, and if I was smiling and how much I was smiling. The intention behind my original post on facebook was merely to point out that people may not know that these sort of demographics are being collected about them merely by approaching and looking at an advertisement. the camera was not, at a glance, evident. It was merely meant as informational, maybe to point out what we all know or suspect anyway, but just to put it out in the open. I believe the only intent behind the data collected is engagement and demographic statistics for better targeted advertisements."

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/norge/comments/67jox4/denne_kr%C3%A...