Tag: Perception

I was listening to a podcast recently with an assortment of intelligent, thoughtful laypeople (whose names I will not share, to be polite) talking about how AI can be used in healthcare. I had misgivings already, because they were using the term “AI”, which I find frequently means everyt...

We’d like to think we have the right to make decisions that impact our bodies and our lives, because it is our right, right?! Nope. In most of the world, we don’t. Meaning, we don’t get to make informed and independent choices about some of the biggest things in our lives. ...

YOLO — You Only Look Once is a family of one stage object detection algorithms. The algorithm works by dividing images into grids, and each grid detects and localizes the object it contains. It employs convolutional neural networks (CNN) as a backbone to detect objects in r...

This means that our eyes take precedence across other senses as we intake ~80% of all information from vision. The eye, like many other organs of the human body, is composed of various components, each critical to our vision. In human perception, light is taken in through each eye and the intrica...

When trying to dismantle racism, the question “is racism taking place?” Is not always the question that needs to be asked. It’s who is upholding racism, or more likely to overlook racism, that will provide clearer guidance. In my previous essay, Who Upholds R...

When trying to dismantle racism, the question “is racism taking place?” Is not always the question that needs to be asked. It’s who is upholding racism, or more likely to overlook racism, that will provide clearer guidance. In my previous essay, Who Upholds R...

Well, maybe not everyone, but a lot of people do. According to the statistics, one billion people use Instagram each month, and 71% percent of those are under the age of 35. From this, we can conclude that a lot of people use Instagram, and most of them are young people. Young people ...