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Does A Deep Neural Network Like Your #Selfie?

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Best Selfies
Andrej Karpathy trained a Convolutional Neural Network with a dataset of 2 million photographs to determine what makes the perfect selfie. The image above contains the top 100 best selfies (here are the 1,000 best selfies) Andrej concludes that the best selfies have these qualities:

  1. Be female. Women are consistently ranked higher than men. In particular, notice that there is not a single guy in the top 100.
  2. Face should occupy about 1/3 of the image. Notice that the position and pose of the face is quite consistent among the top images. The face always occupies about 1/3 of the image, is slightly tilted, and is positioned in the center and at the top. Which also brings me to:
  3. Cut off your forehead. What’s up with that? It looks like a popular strategy, at least for women.
  4. Show your long hair. Notice the frequent prominence of long strands of hair running down the shoulders.
  5. Oversaturate the face. Notice the frequent occurrence of over-saturated lighting, which often makes the face look much more uniform and faded out. Related to that,
  6. Put a filter on it. Black and White photos seem to do quite well, and most of the top images seem to contain some kind of a filter that fades out the image and decreases the contrast.
  7. Add a border. You will notice a frequent appearance of horizontal/vertical white borders.

Andrej also created a TwitterBot that will judge your selfie. Simply attach your selfie (or a include a link) to a tweet that mentions @deepselfie anywhere in it. The bot will analyze your selfie and give you its opinion (e.g. score 90% means that the Selfie Bot is 90% sure yours would be in top half of selfies. Selfie Bot was not impressed with my selfie.


More here.

Definitive List Of Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Part 2014

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Greg Rutter has once again created a definitive list of the 99 things you should have already experienced on the internet unless you’re a loser or old or something. Once again, it is a little YouTube heavy, me thinks. But it still a great way to burn an evening. There are a bunch on this years list that I haven’t seen yet. Maybe I really am getting old or something.

01) First Kiss
02) Apparently Kid
03) Hater Blockers
04) The Ice Bucket Challenge
05) In My Mum’s Car
06) Swedish Soldier’s “Greased Lightning”
07) Skateboarding Cat
08) Mr. Pimp Goodgame
09) Kayden and Rain
10) Runner Falls In The Snow After Interview
11) Shia LaBeouf – Live
12) Climbing The World’s Second Highest Tower
13) Snowboarding NYC
14) Brian Williams Sings “Rapper’s Delight”
15) Twitch Plays Pokemon
16) 10 Hours Of Walking In New York As A Woman
17) Cleaning Dancing Roommate
18) Seth Rogen’s Alzheimer’s Senate Testimony
19) Fake Chef Pranks Morning TV Shows
20) Glow Stick Blows Up In Kid’s Face
22) Two Women Caught Stealing Canopy On Beach
22) The Camera In The Mirror
23) Barack Obama’s Between Two Ferns
24) The Ice Cream Van
25) Demon Baby Attack
26) Good Looking Parents Sing “Love Is an Open Door”
27) Superman With A GoPro
28) Andrei Linde Celebrates Physics Breakthrough
29) KTLA Anchors React To Earthquake
30) Louis C.K. and Bradley Cooper
31) Grandmas Smoking Weed For The First Time
32) I Might Boycott Bath And Body Works Rant
33) BASE Jump From The Freedom Tower
34) Instant Karma
35) Action Movie Kid
36) Slow Life
37) Coke + Nutella + Mentos + Durex ITALIA world record
38) Circle Of Life On Flight Home
39) When Mom Isn’t Home
40) Classroom Phone Call April Fools Prank
41) Kids React To The Walkman
42) The Futility Of Existence
43) Kicked In The Head By A Train
44) Baby Conducts Choir
45) Dog Carjacking
46) Reveal To Grandpa
47) Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos
48) 100 Days Of Dance
49) Tempura Shrimp Canon
50) Shovel Fight
51) Ellen’s Oscar Selfie
52) Three Year Epic Selfie
53) My Cat Saved My Son
54) Bunny Eating Rasperberries
55) 300 Sandwiches
56) Amazing Jam Session
57) 26 Country Proposal
58) Aug(de)mented Reality
59) Basejumping Dog
60) Luigi Death Stare
61) Full Cycle Inside A Dishwasher
62) Blatant Racism In Cheektowaga, NY
63) Sir Mix-A-Lot With The Seattle Symphony
64) All By Myself
65) Musicless Music Video: Dancing In The Streets
66) Fireworks Filmed With A Drone
67) F*ck Her Right In The P*ssy
68) I Dare You To Watch This Entire Video
69) Pallate Surfing
70) An Oscar-Worthy Toddler Tantrum
71) Zach King’s Magic Vines
72) Sadie Doesn’t Want Her Brother To Grow Up
73) British NFL Commentary
74) Things You Can’t Do When You’re Not A Toddler
75) Seal Wants To Surf
76) Been Walking Up Late For Some Reason
77) Between Two Ferns: Brad Pitt
78) People Power Frees Man Trapped By Train
79) The Gap by Ira Glass
80) East Hills Mall Back To School Commercial
81) Wisdom Teeth Ice Bucket Challenge
82) That J Crew Gingham Shirt
83) Run, Walter, Run!
84) Mascot Traffic Accident
85) Grandpa and Grandmaster Flash
86) Mutant Giant Spider Dog
87) Jam Session Bat Attack
88) First iPhone 6 Gets Dropped
89) You Poked My Heart
90) Dog Thinks Terrace Door Is Closed
91) I Smell Like Beef
92) Kid Goes Diva
93) Auto-complete Song
94) Love At First Touch
95) Dallas Airport Homophobe
96) Walking On Clean Ice In Slovakia
97) Coyote & Crow Dance
98) Crash And Burn Weezer Cover
99) iPhone 6 Plus Bend Test

I always try to add a few that I think Greg Missed, so here you go:
100) Deez Nuts

Hail Stone Cocktails (Cockthails? Hailtails?)

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On Saturday evening several parts of the Denver metro area experienced a quick but rather violent hail storm. So I decided to make the best of it and make some Hail Stone Cocktails. I simply mixed lemonade, lemon pellegrino, gin, muddled mint, and hail. Garnish with a sprig of basil and enjoy.

Hail Cocktail !

There has been some debate on reddit as to how safe drinking this cocktail is. I can only tell you that it didn’t make me sick and it tasted great. I’m venturing to guess that the most dangerous ingredient was the gin, not the hail. But that is coming from a guy who has eaten watermelon snow on several occasions.
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The Best Two Second Slayer Video Ever

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I was upset to read that Slayer’s guitarist Jeff Hanneman died yesterday morning at age 49. In honor of Jeff’s passing I present to you my most favorite two second Slayer video ever.

These two ushers had a hell of a night during the August 25th 2010 Slayer show at Magness Arena in Denver, CO. They stood like that the entire night. Magness Arena really doesn’t have a lot of concerts (Though I have seen Pixies and Jane’s Addiction there) and I don’t think these poor ladies had any idea what they were in for.

Definitive List Of Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Part 2012

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Greg Rutter does it again with his “Definitive List Of The Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet In 2012 Unless You’re A Loser Or Old Or Something” list. His other two previous lists can be found here and here. Always an entertaining way to burn an afternoon or two.

01) Best Marriage Proposal Ever
02) Bob Ross Remixed
03) Gangnum Style
04) Mr. Wizard’s A Dick
05) Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
06) Dog Shamin
07) Texts From Hillary
08) Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”
09) Shark Surprise
10) San Diego’s 15 Second Fireworks Spectacular
11) Game Of Thrones Light Saber Battle
12) Krispy Kreme
13) A Conversation With My 12-Year-Old Self
14) All 135 Space Shuttle Launches At Once
15) Ew! With Jimmy Fallon And Channing Tatum
16) Stumbling Subway Stairs
17) Soliders Perform Haka Dance For Fallen Comrade
18) Video for Briona
19) GloZell Attempts Cinnamon Challenge
20) Mckayla Is Not Impressed
21) Tupac Hologram At Cochella
22) Walk Off The Earth Covers Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”
23) Bestie Boys Sabatoge Tribute
24) Michelle Jenneke
25) Kony 2012
26) Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves
27) Excited Train Guy
28) Ignore Hitler
29) Dollar Shave Club
30) Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews
31) NASA Lands Curiosity On Mars
32) New York Park
33) Hot Cheetos And Takis
34) Golden Eagle Snatches Kid
35) Bad Lip Reading Of Debate Highlights
36) Melodica Cover Of Jurassic Park Theme
37) Dumb Ways To Die
38) JB Fanvideo (Overly Attached Girlfriend)
39) Five Guys Burger Review
40) Auto-tuned Five Guys Burger Review
41) Tan Mom Arrested
42) Rich Kids Of Instagram
43) Pussy Riot
44) My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court
45) Pointer Pointer
46) John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s “I Think You Might Like It”
47) Dragon Baby
48) Binders Full Of Women
49) Bus Monitor Bullied
50) Sofia The Lion Tamer
51) Vennu Mallesh’s “It’s My Life”
52) Embarrassing Dad At Electric Music Festival
53) Botched Restoration Of Ecce Homo Fresco
54) Drunk Man Sings Kiss From A Rose To His Cat
55) Insane Dodge Ball Kill
56) Bottles Beware
57) The Greatest Event In Television History
58) Red Bull Stratos
59) Henry Thomas’s Audition For E.T.
60) Cannonball Into A Frozen Pool
61) DMX Sings “Rudolf The Red Nosed Raindeer”
62) Mariah Carey, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots “All I Want For Christmas”
63) Modern Sienfeld
64) Ikea Monkey
65) Little Baby’s Ice Cream
66) Sweet Brown “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For Bronchitis”

Only 66 things this time and nothing hidden in the source code.

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