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Isn't any warm spot essentially pre-configured as a cat bed?
Any place is pre-configured as a cat bed. "If I fits, I sits" does not just apply to boxes... cats will, in my experience, sit wherever the f..k they want whenever the f..k they want.
Does anyone else find this mildly dystopian? I mean, it's a cool and really fun project, but it doesn't take much imagination to envision a service like this actually taking off. "We monitor your mood 24/7 and automatically send you 'happy thoughts' on demand! Contemplating your feelings? Why bother! Here's a cute cat video! Never feel uncomfortable, pensive, or existential again!"
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The dystopia is already upon us. Facial recognition was apparently deployed in a school in China to track students' emotions and actions. [0]. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-school-facial-recognit...
China has been dystopian for decades. The real bummer is that even free countries are starting to embrace the same methodologies. When Australia, Canada and the US start heading toward the abyss of surveillance/lock-down states you know things are not looking good for the planet.
My SO and me are a foster home for stray cats that were found to need special care during neutering campaigns for stray cats. While most strays in these campaigns return to their spots after being neutered some (like kittens found in trash bins or cats with injuries that need longer treatment) are being put up for adoption.
Especially with newly arrived foster cats they need to be taught what the are allowed and especially what not (let the plants live, not jumping onto the table). After that they are the most lovely coworkers lying on the chairs next to me.
Does anyone else find this mildly dystopian? I mean, it's a cool and really fun project, but it doesn't take much imagination to envision a service like this actually taking off. "We monitor your mood 24/7 and automatically send you 'happy thoughts' on demand! Contemplating your feelings? Why bother! Here's a cute cat video! Never feel uncomfortable, pensive, or existential again!"
I am convinced that someone did something to pump those videos up and get eyeballs on them. If my hypothesis is correct I would find it to be creepy and insulting. I do not want to be manipulated.
Sometimes the truth is hard, and that's ok. Pain is healthy in the right doses.
Since working from home I have between 3 and 6 coworkers. The stress relief tends to depend on the fact that some are better behaved/trained than others. My SO and me are a foster home for stray cats that were found to need special care during neutering campaigns for stray cats. While most strays in these campaigns return to their spots after being neutered some (like kittens found in trash bins or cats with injuries…
Maker of the Cat API the author uses here - love his use-case, and a wonderfully useful & concise write-up to boot.
How do you moderate what is uploaded and check for copyright for example. I am always confused how solo developers make sure that nothing malicious is uploaded. Surely you don't have time to moderate everything yourself.
We also make the results available for each safe image via the API so anyone can create their own ML model on top.
Both theCatAPI.com and its sister theDogAPI.com are used in a lot of schools, colleges, bootcamps, and even coding interviews so we try and make them as clean as possible.
I solved this problem in a lower-tech way by simply configuring the area behind my workstation as a cat bed. Now, I can turn around and enjoy looking at my cat at any time, as she loves her bed and rarely leaves it. Stress eliminated! Yes, she is taking Series A funding in the form of wet food, if anyone is interested.
Would be interesting to use this to track your facial emotion in relation to what you are doing at your computer; e.g. facebooking, reading news, working, etc. If you're a developer, what kind of programming you're doing, language, platform, etc. Could scientifically prove once and for all whether or not Ruby is optimized for programmer happiness.
Bottom line: people don’t show much emotion while looking at screens. The only exception was video calls.
Project site: http://wanderingstan.github.io/Lifeslice/
Early talk: https://vimeo.com/42239564