Then, it analyzes that spectrogram to look for similarities to known bird calls, which come from the Cornell Lab’s eBird citizen science project. When you ask the app to record sounds around you and scan them for bird calls, it actually transforms the sound into a visual graph called a spectrogram, similar to what you might see in an audio editing program. “Users are finally putting a name to birds they have seen or heard before, but could never identify, and are really really excited by it,” writes Weber in an email, explaining that it’s often easier to get a good audio sample of a bird than a good photo.Įven when it’s listening to bird sounds, the app still relies on recent advances in image recognition, says project research engineer Grant Van Horn. New user counts are also up 58% since the two weeks before launch, and up 44% over the same period last year, according to Drew Weber, Merlin’s project coordinator. Since the feature launched late last month, it’s become the most popular feature in the app (which also features AI tools to identify birds in photos), and people have used it to identify more than 1 million birds. It now features an AI-infused “Sound ID” feature that can capture bird sounds and compare them to crowdsourced samples to figure out just what bird is making that sound. Paul Guercio and George Hart have provided several MERLIN Timetraks® to accompany their appearance on the 10/16/13 program.The lab recently upgraded its Merlin smartphone app, designed for both new and experienced birdwatchers. News segment guests: Gerald Celente, Robert Zimmerman Website(s): She lamented that some stores are on their way to becoming diabolical "retail zoos" where customers are the exhibits. The end game for this, she believes, is that stores want to charge different prices for different people, and customers will have to aim their cell phone at a product to get their specific price. Based on the shopper's specific demographic, the store might beam out an ad or message tailored to that person, she explained.
It also includes many timetraks of celebrities and world events.įirst hour guest, privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht reported on a supermarket's plan to track shoppers with "smart shelves" that are integrated with Microsoft Kinect technology which can detect their age, gender, and physical traits. Offered at 99 cents for a one-week trial, the app allows people to enter specific dates and view a graphical interface that shows how the peaks and valleys play out over a given time frame.
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They also talked about their TimeTraks app available for Apple and Android smartphones and tablets. Guercio also cited the year 2021 as a time we might see a nuclear event, based on charts of when previous nuclear activity first occurred. Jeb Bush's timetrak during this time frame isn't going anywhere, he added. NY Governor Cuomo, with Rand Paul running as a third-party candidate (see charts below). He predicts that it will be NJ Governor Christie vs. Looking at possible candidates for the 2016 US presidential election, Guercio doesn't see Hillary Clinton running, or landing in the primary if she does run. "The timetraks for the United States indicated that this year and continuing for several years would be periods of extreme chaos and tension," he noted. For instance, for Apple Computer, you can run the birth dates of Steve Jobs, the corporation, and important product release dates, "and if they all have timetraks going crazy with high activity at a given moment that tells you that's a moment in time to really pay attention to," Hart explained. Their charts won't tell you whether something is good or bad off hand, but you can triangulate several related dates for further interpretation. Futurist Paul Guercio and physicist George Hart of the Merlin Project discussed their software-based forecasting technology and the graphical snapshots of time, called Timetraks, it generates.
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