They're roaming the halls hoping to accurately capture the essence of CPAC - by which we mean they're taking photos, soudbytes and overheard quotes and assigning a number value of 1 (tame) to 10 (CPAC essence fully realized), depending on how much the tweet in question fits the conference spirit.
Unfortunately for the millions of people who could soon find themselves the unwilling subjects — make that objects — of Cordray's app, her thoughts do not appear to have shed light on certain very critical issues, such as consent and bias and accuracy and the fundamental wrongness of assigning a number value to a person.
Lowdown: Each bike has a "tech pack" that, along with displaying speed in RPMs and individual "power" output, assigns a number value to the resistance at any time on the bike, which it terms "Torq".
The system is designed for use with mobile devices with both cellular and GPS functions, which of course means the iPhone and iPad would be prime targets, and stores user ratings in a database to assign a cumulative number value to each suggested route.
With this method, every intermediate product is assigned a number of relative value units (RVUs).
As previously described (Field and Rieke, 2002; Doan et al., 2006, 2009), each trial was assigned a whole number value (0, 1, or 2) that indicated whether the flash produced a 'failure', a 'single', or the response to multiple rhodopsin isomerizations.
Each pixel is assigned a real-number value ranging from 0 (lowest suitability) to 100 (highest suitability) and displayed on a map.
