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Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
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#72How useful is spatial data over time, does it decay or age much? Is the geographical data more useful, or are buildings and other structures more important? Genuinely don't know much in this space.
I don't what class of models they use here, specifically, but a generic classifier shouldn't depend on a single feature. And neighbourhoods don't typically get razed or remodeled/painted over in a fortnight.
... Except, well, when it's the doing of this same, so called "defence" industry.
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#73An interesting thing is that in Russia, this military data grab by ostensibly 'our western would-be enemies" was supported by viral advertisement by nobody else but the head of Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. A story was manufactured about arresting a 22 y.o. guy in the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints for playing Pokemon Go. The story went hyper-hyped for weeks, with general public sentiment that o…
Interesting: the Russians are calling "our partners", "our would-be enemies" now. They're not even pretending anymore. Given that this steady parade of seemingly-planted and promoted derogatory anti-Western stories that has been happening for years originates from You Know Where, it's a revelation that the Russian establishment and secret services are not even pretending anymore. It should also be pointed out that Ki…
All very true, and an important point about ROC/KGB ties, but
> the Russians are calling "our partners", "our would-be enemies" now.
is a total wind vane which can flip 180° in a matter of days (if not minutes, as in Orwell's scene where they seamlessly switch from being at war with Eurasia to that with Eastasia)...
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#74i remerber china bans it many years ago... and many people dont understand why.... never trust a USA product! and we even have youtube videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiJOHV9rIxU
I don’t think the standing committee is objectively that perceptive But I do appreciate alot about what they are doing and choose to do Reminds me more of a theme park. Yes, a heavy handed corporation runs it and if you have any dissent it won’t go well, but if you don’t choose to focus on that then it will be a joyous place and you have the opportunity to contribute to that energy and be rewarded by something that s…
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#75Insane. People literally traded military intelligence for Pokémon.
In 2016 this wasn’t obviously happening/common knowledge. Remember to blame the perpetrators, not the victims.
Huh? You still don't know how this works, do you?
I mean, you can blame whoever you want, even Pikachu. Neither Niantic nor even one person cares who you blame.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Niantics founder has CIA roots This is not at all an honest way of saying "Niantics founder raised money from In-Q-Tel"
Being founded with funding from the CIA's venture capital arm seems tantamount to "CIA roots"
Yes, it would not be unreasonable to say that funding originating from In-Q-Tel has "CIA roots".
If someone claimed to have a CIA background solely on the basis that In-Q-Tel funded their mapping software, they'd be a charlatan. Just as a guy selling toilet paper to the CIA is not necessarily someone embedded in the intelligence community.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why videos though? Photogrammetry is about still images. You don't need ALL angles of a target from a single user. Other users pile the needed data up, guided by their own pokemon locations.
Good point, maybe that could be done. But that's not what TFA is about, so you're not vindicated yet.
Yeah and for niantic to achieve good photogrammetry with their random collection of photos taken from different angles, on different days, etc they would need some kind of ground truth to train on, which is implausible. You'd need to collect a parallel dataset of high-quality videos for traditional photogrammetry and .. hang on.
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#78Complaints in this thread, yet no one will boycott Nintendo for doing this. Ultimately, they allowed this data to be collected and then sold.