[HN Gopher] A Fuss Budget (1885)
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A Fuss Budget (1885)
Author : beardyw
Score : 42 points
Date : 2024-02-14 09:08 UTC (2 days ago)
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| beardyw wrote:
| I wonder if anyone has properly studied or automated this.
| richiebful1 wrote:
| I have a friend who worked in computer vision at Carnegie
| Mellon and talked about automatically estimating focus levels.
| I'm not aware of any successful product that gathers these
| metrics though. Here's some papers from a quick web search:
|
| - Monitoring Students' Attention in a Classroom Through
| Computer Vision:
| https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_...
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| - Focus Estimation in Academic Environments Using Computer
| Vision:
| https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31332-6_...
| woleium wrote:
| Fathom tries to do this for sales calls
| jcutrell wrote:
| I guess it says something about me that I expect this to be
| weaponized by HR to manage company zoom behaviors.
| jerf wrote:
| One of my Crazy Fringe Ideas that anybody who wants can take
| (because I've got no practical way of monetizing this) is
| having large video conferences analyze the facial expressions
| of the participants, and synthesizing it into a small number of
| representative faces for the presenter to see how the crowd is
| taking it. For instance, if everyone is engaged, the sample
| faces would be engaged, but if some people started to drift
| away, one of the faces would become disinterested. There's a
| variety of interesting uses this could be put to to help a
| presenter at least somewhat engage with a crowd as if they were
| more live and in person.
|
| Of course, this may turn out to be a case of too much truth
| shattering too many illusions. Maybe we can have a
| surreptitious CEO mode where all the faces at the multi-
| thousand-person "all hands" meetings just automatically are
| smiling and engaged. "Oh, yes, they were all hanging on your
| every word and deeply excited about your new initiative to
| engage in thought leadership for advancing synergy in the world
| market."
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| You might like the plot of the (pseudonymous Neal Stephenson
| collaboration novel), "Interface", by Stephen Bury. There's
| definitely a parallel to what you're describing applied to
| politics.
| tonyarkles wrote:
| > a small number of representative faces for the presenter
|
| Interesting... kind of taking the idea of Eigenfaces [1] and
| adding an extra layer of categorization to it. I like it!
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| [1] https://towardsdatascience.com/eigenfaces-recovering-
| humans-...
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| (1885) !
| Vox_Leone wrote:
| Interesting insight. My attempt at canonicalization would be
| that, therefore, the orientation of the frontal and sagittal
| planes (attitude and azimuth of the heads) are functions of the
| degree of engagement. Engagement is a measure of the alignment of
| those vectors.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Happy that Futility Closet is back.
| jfengel wrote:
| Had the web site gone? I know they ended their podcast, and I
| miss it; it was charming. I had assumed that the website kept
| going.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| They announced closing up shop -- but apparently that
| sabbatical lasted only a handful of months. (Sadly, I had
| stopped visiting in the interim and didn't realize they were
| back until recently.)
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Galton was a brilliant thinker and a deeply horrible human being.
|
| I miss the Futility Closet podcast. Well worth listening to their
| back catalogue. IIRC one of the founders had health issues. I
| hope they are doing ok now.
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