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Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper

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This small radard is sensitive enough to identify playing cards by looking at the tiny texture. Looking forward to seeing magicians using this in card tricks. Face ID with hyper sensitive radard should also be very accurate.

Do facial recognition systems retrain themselves to compensate for change caused by growth or age?

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This small radard is sensitive enough to identify playing cards by looking at the tiny texture. Looking forward to seeing magicians using this in card tricks. Face ID with hyper sensitive radard should also be very accurate.

Do facial recognition systems retrain themselves to compensate for change caused by growth or age?

Random side-fact: a co-worker who climbs a lot stopped using fingerprint sensors on his phones because his prints change frequently enough due to climbing, that it's basically useless.

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This small radard is sensitive enough to identify playing cards by looking at the tiny texture. Looking forward to seeing magicians using this in card tricks. Face ID with hyper sensitive radard should also be very accurate.

I've already seen some magic tricks similar to this with some small HD cameras.

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This small radard is sensitive enough to identify playing cards by looking at the tiny texture. Looking forward to seeing magicians using this in card tricks. Face ID with hyper sensitive radard should also be very accurate.

Do facial recognition systems retrain themselves to compensate for change caused by growth or age?

Apple claims their FaceID system does, at least.

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This small radard is sensitive enough to identify playing cards by looking at the tiny texture. Looking forward to seeing magicians using this in card tricks. Face ID with hyper sensitive radard should also be very accurate.

Richard Turner, self-styled card mechanic, can count and manipulate cards with unbelievable precision by feel alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFIJyWKs1k

He also happens to be blind.

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This small radard is sensitive enough to identify playing cards by looking at the tiny texture. Looking forward to seeing magicians using this in card tricks. Face ID with hyper sensitive radard should also be very accurate.

Do facial recognition systems retrain themselves to compensate for change caused by growth or age?

Google Photos was able to determine that pictures of my niece as an infant, and pictures of my niece as a 5 year old, are pictures of the same person.

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Do facial recognition systems retrain themselves to compensate for change caused by growth or age?

Random side-fact: a co-worker who climbs a lot stopped using fingerprint sensors on his phones because his prints change frequently enough due to climbing, that it's basically useless.

Many years ago I had to clock in and out of a job with a fingerprint scanner. I had the same issue because I played acoustic guitar a lot and had thick calluses on my fingers that would occasionally crack.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do facial recognition systems retrain themselves to compensate for change caused by growth or age?

Google Photos was able to determine that pictures of my niece as an infant, and pictures of my niece as a 5 year old, are pictures of the same person.

I've noticed this competency in google photos as well. Though surely it is using the photos of her in between those ages to extrapolate(?)
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