Computer vision and image recognition are terms that are often used synonymously, but the former encompasses more than just analyzing pictures. That’s because, even for humans, “seeing” also involves ...

Every day there's a fresh news story about "image recognition," aka "computer vision" — terms that have a faintly sci-fi feel to them. The technology can seem almost forbiddingly futuristic and ...

One of the great myths in the technosphere is that musicians make good programmers because music is like math. I disagree. Music is not enough like math for any relevant or significant skill transfer.