Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXII

[vetran]

Thinking about it I guess if the accused does not contest that they had sex, but that it was consensual then there isn't really a need to do run the rape kit as it would just come back with what has already been established?

Murder is murder, it always gets a lot of resources thrown at it.

Burglar cuts himself on broken glass on the other hand? We already know police don't seem to even turn up, lets alone CSI folks.

The CCTV is the sort of stuff i'm talking about where we seem to have lots of data points but not really the ability to efficiently analyse it all. You're right the magical 'AI' should be able to do that sort of job but we haven't reached that point yet. It probably won't be too much longer before you can just upload all the CCTV and put in some specs, type, colour, reg, and then get a bunch of snippets for officers to manually review.

Even then, you need the officers to still do the leg work of going door to door asking for copies of private security cameras, which is what the vast majority of CCTV in the UK is.

First whoever admits to having sex may not be the last one. I suspect there are plenty of crimes where the victim has nearly consensual sex (intoxicated but says yes) with one then is raped by another. Get both in and flip the first one.

If in an unsolved murder all we have is DNA then popping it in a bank and checking each year against people sampled is a cheap way to resolve cold cases.

We have such a low prosecution rate anything that helps is good!

Meet opencv!

You can already do ANPR

https://medium.com/@alexey.yeryomenk...i-e1ac8a804c79

People & Zone detection - create timestamped frames with activity in zones and faces.

https://www.oreilly.com/content/rasp...mputer-vision/

Activity detection
https://pyimagesearch.com/2019/11/25...deep-learning/

The output can be accessed in a few minutes for 24 hours, also properly configured it will be more accurate.


All the complicated stuff has been done. You just need to deploy to reduce staff resources.

I have seen a demo of traffic offence prosecution system currently in service that is automated and just expects verification of detected offences <1% by a human to comply with the law. Its a profit centre!

For collecting CCTV then require all of those having CCTV have to register it (makes a lot of sense for CCTV) and position on house. Then email CCTV operators for time periods. If not forthcoming then use civilians to pick it up. A bit of GIS action and you will have a good picture of what you want.

[Snooky]

DID THE SPLITS NEAR A SCREWDRIVER

It's a common enough risk, I don't know why it'd be in this report?

[JustKeepSwimming]

I think its more the wish rather than resources.

Knowing who the last had sex with someone is pretty important in rape/murder cases. Its not conclusive but its handy I would have thought.

23 and me health & ancestry service £99.

Genetic pre-disposition + DNA results.

They 23&me are making a profit out of it.

If average murder investigation costs £3.2m then £100 commercially is a drop in the ocean.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rch-shows.html

Did you see the documentary series "the Met" they had police officers watching CCTV for days, surely a job for a computer?

They were hunting vehicles by eye.

Thinking about it I guess if the accused does not contest that they had sex, but that it was consensual then there isn't really a need to do run the rape kit as it would just come back with what has already been established?

Murder is murder, it always gets a lot of resources thrown at it.

Burglar cuts himself on broken glass on the other hand? We already know police don't seem to even turn up, lets alone CSI folks.

The CCTV is the sort of stuff i'm talking about where we seem to have lots of data points but not really the ability to efficiently analyse it all. You're right the magical 'AI' should be able to do that sort of job but we haven't reached that point yet. It probably won't be too much longer before you can just upload all the CCTV and put in some specs, type, colour, reg, and then get a bunch of snippets for officers to manually review.

Even then, you need the officers to still do the leg work of going door to door asking for copies of private security cameras, which is what the vast majority of CCTV in the UK is.

[vetran]

I've heard in the US there are literally 100,000s of rape kits that haven't been tested. Yes that's proof of sex not necessarily rape, but if that's the case with these DNA tests you can imagine what the priority is for 'lesser' crimes.

It kind of seems like we are in the gap where we are able to gather massive amount of evidence but not have the resources/technology to analyse it effectively.

I think its more the wish rather than resources.

Knowing who the last had sex with someone is pretty important in rape/murder cases. Its not conclusive but its handy I would have thought.

23 and me health & ancestry service £99.

Genetic pre-disposition + DNA results.

They 23&me are making a profit out of it.

If average murder investigation costs £3.2m then £100 commercially is a drop in the ocean.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rch-shows.html

Did you see the documentary series "the Met" they had police officers watching CCTV for days, surely a job for a computer?

They were hunting vehicles by eye.

[JustKeepSwimming]

You sort of assume that the DNA matching is automatically done on cold cases as technology improves. Criminals tend to reoffend.

I've heard in the US there are literally 100,000s of rape kits that haven't been tested. Yes that's proof of sex not necessarily rape, but if that's the case with these DNA tests you can imagine what the priority is for 'lesser' crimes.

It kind of seems like we are in the gap where we are able to gather massive amount of evidence but not have the resources/technology to analyse it effectively.

[northernladuk]

He did Kickstarters for print editions of the first two chapters, which I backed. On one of those I went for a tier that included a Jonas action figure and a few other bits

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ition-volume-1
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ition-volume-2

Don't know if there are any copies of the books left on sale though

Wow, 44k for each chapter. He's turned this in to quite industry. Kudos to him for that. His patreon makes a little bit as well. 11 chapters must mean it's working well for him.

[NickFitz]

Too right. He's got his own action figures as well which is amazing. Must be very popular nowadays. https://wormworldsaga.com/artbook/22/

Love it.

He did Kickstarters for print editions of the first two chapters, which I backed. On one of those I went for a tier that included a Jonas action figure and a few other bits

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ition-volume-1
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ition-volume-2

Don't know if there are any copies of the books left on sale though

[northernladuk]

I knew you'd be pleased with that one

Too right. He's got his own action figures as well which is amazing. Must be very popular nowadays. https://wormworldsaga.com/artbook/22/

Love it.

[NickFitz]

YESSSS! Wormworld Saga is back!! I was reading this when it was a ML years and years ago and lost the link as it was on my then work laptop and forgot how to find it again. Am over the moon it's back! It's so long since I read it I'll start again from the beginning. Can't wait.

I saw I can't wait, I'm going to have to look through all the additional content which is probably what's got me hooked on this. If you go to the Special Content link about the art there are some pages there that shows how he maps the story and a ton on the modelling and scene setting along with the iterative process for each scene. It's mad the effort that goes in to it. Knowing all that makes the actually story even better to read. Crazy good website and story.

NF you are a god!

I knew you'd be pleased with that one

[northernladuk]

YESSSS! Wormworld Saga is back!! I was reading this when it was a ML years and years ago and lost the link as it was on my then work laptop and forgot how to find it again. Am over the moon it's back! It's so long since I read it I'll start again from the beginning. Can't wait.

I say I can't wait, I'm going to have to look through all the additional content which is probably what's got me hooked on this. If you go to the Special Content link about the art there are some pages there that shows how he maps the story and a ton on the modelling and scene setting along with the iterative process for each scene. It's mad the effort that goes in to it. Knowing all that makes the actually story even better to read. Crazy good website and story.

NF you are a god!

[vetran]

so much butt fun

[vetran]

You sort of assume that the DNA matching is automatically done on cold cases as technology improves. Criminals tend to reoffend.

[NickFitz]

Bit chilly out, but of course you have more sense than to go there when you can stay in reading this lot

• ‘Badass detective’: How one California officer solved eight cold cases — in his spare time - Detective Matt Hutchison adopts ingenious methods to get his results: ”Along with poking through trash, Detective Hutch, as he’s known, has posed as a busboy in a bar to gather DNA samples from a suspect’s chicken wings and traveled to multiple states to search for evidence and talk with relatives of long-dead victims who thought their loved ones’ cases had been forgotten.”
• Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins - ”Last spring, scientists retrieved a trove of mantle rocks from underneath the Atlantic seafloor — a bounty that could help write the first chapter of life's story on Earth.”
• The Most Dangerous Asteroid That Never Was - ”Let’s go back to April 10, 2020. The pandemic continues to spread and many countries are in lockdown, the Northolt Branch Observatories located in London, England spotted an object moving across the sky… 2020 GL2 was a risky one. It would have a 1 in 400,000 chance to hit the Earth in 2028.” Except it turned out to be one of ours
• The Bismarck Diet - Katja Hoyer suggests taking a lead from the Iron Chancellor for your New Year's Resolutions: ”Germany’s first Chancellor was under constant pressure from the moment he founded the German Empire in 1871. Like many people, he compensated for his burnout with food, tobacco and alcohol until he eventually became so overweight and sick that by the early 1880s, he was only able to work two hours a day by his own estimation… In the end, it was a young doctor from Bavaria who finally helped the Chancellor to permanently lose over 20kg and get fit again - without having to limit himself in his work.”
• London’s Most Inconvenient Plaque Marks A Forgotten Roman Site - Something to look for should you find yourself in Stanmore: ”For many of us, a trip to the very northern extreme of the Jubilee line would be adventure enough. How often do you take a ride out to Stanmore for the fun of it? But add to that a walk of over a mile up one of north London’s tallest hills, and then a scramble through a patch of overgrown brambles.”
• What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? - The essential year-in-review piece: ”It's time to gather 'round the fire with your loved ones for our nation's oldest and finest tradition: reading about people that jammed things in their holes and couldn't get them out without medical intervention. All reports are taken from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's database of emergency room visits, all descriptions are verbatim, and almost all patients made some regrettable decisions.”
• 20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea - Been a while since we had a look at the homeland of the Dear Leader; admittedly, this one is from just over ten years ago, but I gather things don't change much over there: ”I’d find myself thinking, ‘Are you an actor in The Truman Show and you think I’m Truman? Or are you Truman and I’m one of the actors?’ Are those kids on the street just pretending to be playing for my benefit? Is any of this real? Am I real?”
• Free Magic Tricks - Cool Card Tricks And Coin Illusions - If the return to the office is getting you down, how about a change of career: ”Whether practicing how to do magic and sleight of hand as a hobby to entertain family and friends or to jump on board and take it to a professional level ? The choice is entirely up to you.”
• Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip - Weird wiring from Ken Shirriff: ”I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what to expect. But an Ethernet chip from 1982 had something new: a strange layer of yellow wiring on the die. After some study, I learned that the yellow wiring is a second layer of resistive polysilicon, used in the chip's static storage cells and latches.”
• The Wormworld Saga: Chapter 11 - Rise of the Firelord - It’s here! Daniel Lieske has published the latest chapter of his beautiful graphic novel
  
  

Happy invoicing!