Twitter was abuzz today with people posting photos and laughing about the results from Microsoft’s new face-detection website.
The How Old? website (which Microsoft took down in the past few years and never set up a redirect) allows you to upload a photo, and based on an algorithm, guesses the gender and age of any faces recognized in the photo. Continue reading Microsoft’s How Old? Site Goes Viral, Give It a Try
Kathy Sierra, author, game programmer, interaction designer, and original creator of one of the largest software developer communities, returned to the stage yesterday at the O’Reilly Fluent Conference.
I caught her Making Badass Developers keynote, a talk about cognitive resources and how developers can build their skill sets, on livestream.
Here are my notes from her talk. Continue reading Fluent Conference: Kathy Sierra on Developers and Cognitive Resources
When Christian Heilmann posted his tweet this morning, I nodded my head.
Almost every week I host an event for a local meetup group and have to deal with a similar issue. Continue reading Can I Have One Universal Standard? Please.