When Do You Snack? ADL Nails You, You Sneak
August 29, 2015
Know much about ADL or Activities of Daily Living? You can get up to speed on the sneak factor of home surveillance by flipping through “Distributional Semantics and Unsupervised Clustering for Sensor Relevancy Prediction.” Sounds pretty slick, right?
The idea is that the embedding of computing devices into your possessions provides useful data to someone. Next one can apply various analyses to make sense of the data. For example, you watch TruTV’s World Dumbest program. Then you hit the fridge. Grab a beer. Open the cupboard and snag a bag of Cheetos Crunchy Flamin’ Hot Cheese Flavored Snacks. Pick up your laptop and navigate to Backpage.com. Lean back in your Barcalounger. Live the life.
The fun part is that predictive methods can figure out what you will do next. Good for advertisers. Good for you. Good in general.
Sound creepy? Invasive?
Hey, get with the program. The major benefit is that with these data and the outputs, the metadata, and the bits and bobs like GPS, many magical things can be crafted from passive observational data capture and analysis.
Home delivery of a Backpage solution? Entirely possible.
Just connect the data points. Predict interests. And the Backpage offers come calling.
Why worry?
Stephen E Arnold, August 29, 2015
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