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I'm a big fan of Titanfall. It is unfortunate that TF2 didn't sell as well as it should have, but I am looking forward to playing this mobile title.

I was driving the other day with my phone mounted on my dash. I asked Siri to open Google Maps and she replied I would have to unlock my iPhone first. I suddenly realized how convenient facial recognition for authentication would be.

A touching story. Thank you for sharing.

rolandg said:

I was hoping that Apple would be courageous and revolutionize the way we deal with "files" and ditch the old paradigms of files and folders in favor of a keyword-based system.

I work with DAM (digital asset management) systems and it is important to understand that keywords/tags and folder/directory hierarchies are all just metadata that is displayed in different ways, and each has its strengths and weaknesses. Keywords are essential to search, but unless you are willing to type an complicated search query, will often get more results than you need and therefore make it more difficult to find the specific item that you want. Also, for keyword searches to be fully efficient, you have to be 1) VERY consistent about how you apply the keywords, and 2) make sure that sufficient numbers of keywords are applied to make sure the search queries can filter out what you don't want to find. Let's say for example you want to find photos of apples in an image database. You type in "apple" in your search string but in addition to fruit you get computers. You could do a Boolean search such as "apples NOT computer" or "apples AND fruit" and hope that the person who keyworded the files added the keywords fruit and computer to the images, too. Whereas if there were directories already set up that had "Fruit > apples" that would be easier to find. This gets even better in systems that are not file systems per se, but databases where the files can show up in multiple directories.

hmurchison said:

Apple is really serious about this AI stuff. 


Dark Data though?   Isn't that kind of racist?

Average words like "dark" or "white" can only be racist if used in a racist context. If I say, "It's really getting dark outside," and I am referring to the fact that night is coming, there is no racist context. Obviously there are some words that are racist by nature but "dark" is not one of them.