Tell your age from a photo, how old do I look?

Microsoft has revealed a new website that claims to be able to work out someone’s age just from just a picture. Called  How old do I look, it allows people to analyze any image found on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, or upload their own.  Tell your age from a photo, and ask yourself, how old do I look? It even allows users to search for celebrities – and see what Microsoft thinks their real ages are. It is fun to use, but the ages vary wildly. People uploaded photos taken of them on the same day and got a huge variance in the age it said they were. The developers said,  ‘We wanted to create an experience that was intelligent and fun could capture the attention of people globally, so we looked at the APIs available in the Azure Machine Learning Gallery,’. The system works by analyzing 27 points on the face. Called face landmarks, they are a series of specifically detailed points on a face; typically points of face components like the pupils, canthus or nose. ‘These attributes are predicted by using statistical algorithms and may not always be 100% precise.  Still it is quite fun to try out. Hint […]

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Unique and Fun Ways to Promote Yourself Online

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How fast do you “type” now? Test your typing speed online

When I was in high school, I took a typing class twice and dropped out both times. (Yikes I think I am aging myself !) I have wanted to be a writer since I was quite young, and I knew I needed to learn how to type.  I truly hated typing class and gave up on the idea I would ever be a fast typist. Life moved on, I went into the corporate world  and had my own secretary so I actually never did have to learn how to type fast. Than came the internet and computers.  I have been working on the computer daily since 1998.  When my kids watch me type they have often said, “Wow Mom you are fast”.  I still feel slow, so I just dismissed their remarks. Then I found this fun little site that tests your speed. I thought it would fun to share it with all the people like me, who flunked out of typing or maybe data entry class and might be quite fast now! Give it a try. I have to say I was pretty darned thrilled that I could actually type 62 wpm! When I tested myself about 10 years […]