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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by mtlynch »

ajkjk wrote: post #169
thro_213r692s wrote: post #162

Why is this being upvoted ? There is no code

Did you think there was a requirement to have code?

For normal blog posts, no, but OP is submitting as "Show HN" which requires it to be something readers can try on their own:

>Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This is an on-topic blog post, but it doesn't seem to fit the criteria of a Show HN.

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Post by lolinder »

pelorat wrote: post #188
bluenose69 wrote: post #167

I'm a bit concerned about the calorie level I see here, 832/day. That is about 1/3 of the NHS recommendation [1] for males. 1. https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/wha...

Those recommendations are for people that are on their feet all day, not for office workers and home dwellers that never go to the gym.

No, you add more calories if you're active. The USDA has a breakdown by age, gender, and activity level [0]. 2400 calories is recommended for an adult sedentary male between 21 and 40.

Sedentary is now the norm in the developed world, so it would be weird to use active as the baseline for health recommendations.

[0] https://www.fns.usda.gov/estimated-calorie-needs-day-age-gen...

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Post by twobitshifter »

manholio wrote: post #195
twobitshifter wrote: post #138

This is known as life logging with adjacency to sousveillance and it’s a fascinating topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance We in general don’t want to be watched by others, but a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable, and even more so if you find yourself wrongly accused. Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials, one exa…

The trouble with any such footage is that it can be used against you ("as the the defendant's own records show, they were present in the murder area") but they generally won't extricate you when produced by you, since you clearly have a motivation to use it selectively. So you showing a picture of yourself reading a book during what you claim is the murder night is not an alibi, because it could have been produced at…

I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by justinlloyd »

Interesting work, glad to see I am not the only crazy one left in the life logging scene after all these years. Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish, and built a few custom bits of software and hardware to support it. I don't record 24x7 anymore, but I used to. Now my recordings are limited mostly to my office environment, and when I am out and about using a Sensecam-like device with custom firmware. When in my office I capture video, audio and depth data from multiple view points, along with images of the desktop of whatever computer I am on, and process most of it on a Jetson.

How's the audio quality on those devices you link to in other comments? I find I pick up a lot of ambient noise when outside of the office, and always struggled to come up with a viable algorithm and model to differentiate "background chatter" from the main conversation, and it is a problem I've never really managed to solve so I am interested in your experiences on the subject.

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Post by wildermuthn »

layer8 wrote: post #105

The passive information would be useful if that would work with your inner voice.

Love this idea. Most people subvocalize when they read, and my guess is the same for when they write. As for subvocalizing when we think, I have no idea, but I suppose if one were engaged in “talking to oneself” type thinking, that it could be possible that many subvocalize their internal monologues.

Is there some kind of sensor that one could wear that would be unobtrusive enough to measure subvocalization? If so, building a training dataset for an ML model would be as simple as having many people read and write a significant amount of text while using the sensor.

Even better if that text corpus overlaps with text that has been used to train text-to-speech models like Whisper, as you might get away with knowledge transfer with such a model.

It’s definitely worth looking into!

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Post by filoeleven »

lbayes wrote: post #67
netsharc wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, a bit more googling ( https://www.google.com/search?q=police+drone+afghanistan+rew... ) got me just 2 relevant hits. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriff... https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... (search for "rewind") I'd rather think it's because Google sucks now, and those keywords just bring up too many similar articles, but my metaphorical tinfoil hat is my h…

Nice job! Your tips got me to this one, where it more clearly spells out the "rewind" capability. I think the problem was that the tech was attached to a low-flying, piloted plane, not drones. https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226742/record-and-rewind-... Whew! It feels better to set my tinfoil hat down on the table next to me...

There was a website shown on HN a few years ago that used AI and plane transponder data to find circling planes which were presumably doing this kind of surveillance over American cities. It might have used further parameters to narrow it down, e.g. “over a city, circling for >3 hours” to rule out planes waiting to land. I thought it was named something simple like “plane-circles.com” but I’m not having any luck finding it again.

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

Edit: found it. Should have limited the search to HN from the start. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188661

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Post by manholio »

twobitshifter wrote: post #203
manholio wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trouble with any such footage is that it can be used against you ("as the the defendant's own records show, they were present in the murder area") but they generally won't extricate you when produced by you, since you clearly have a motivation to use it selectively. So you showing a picture of yourself reading a book during what you claim is the murder night is not an alibi, because it could have been produced at…

I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.

The body cam footage is a good example, it's deeply hated by the police and a frequent source of incriminatory evidence against the wearer.

Since "you got nothing to hide", as the old saying goes, why not bodycam yourself and offer the authorities a great source of evidence they can use against yourself?

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Post by morsch »

humanistbot wrote: post #157
morsch wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that mean that every phone recording audio to detect its assistant trigger phrase villages two party notice statutes?

Yes.

These assistants have been around for a while, seems like that would have been established in court if it was the case.

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Post by giobox »

lijogdfljk wrote: post #183
habibur wrote: post #134

Excellent idea. You can later search through your logs in the future for reference. As it's all in text. Prior solutions posted on the net, had this take photo / record audio 24/7 features, but then those were stuck there. What next? What would anyone do with these data? But this Hi Jarvis styled recording of text on the go is a very useful feature. Another step ahead.

I've wanted to do the same thing with my online activity as well. Chat logs especially. They tend to go into a void and finding an older log is weirdly difficult. I've wanted to log everything and then be able to apply better search algos (semantic search perhaps) to try and make my chat logs useful.

Cellphones are placed amazingly well to provide this sort of search. Seeing the post about BeOS and its amazing metadata-driven BFS filesystem yesterday really makes you think what might have been had iOS and Android been more ambitious about filesystems instead of just re-applying the same old conventions from our desktop computers.

You should be able to just text search every phone call you have made on iOS/Android, today, similar to the automated voicemail transcription features already present etc etc.

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