Micahville

A couple of days ago, researchers announced a computer that could guess your age, solely by focusing its 32 bit gaze upon your noggin. Finally, your local computer scientist will know hold old you really are.

Like an age-guesser at a carnival, computer software being developed at the University of Illinois can fairly accurately estimate a person’s age. But, unlike age-guessers, who can view a person’s body, the software works by examining only the person’s face.

Dear Readers,

I am not dead. Seriously. I know y’all must have thought so. This summer I was in the small Nicaraguan town of El Guabo, Nicaragua. I lived and lived with the Gutierrez’s along with approximately seventy other families. While there, the community, my partners, and I raised money to fund the area’s first local library. Additionally, as a community we came together to construct a floor in the local high school/community center/sometime community fiesta location.

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