Recently-retired Virginia dentist Eric Forsbergh sent me a mathy poem about the fascinating -- and controversial -- process of facial recognition. Enjoy!
Divided
Data-driven approach divided the face into 63 segments.
Nature Genetics, Jan. 2021
This, you can’t refute:
How data banks embed us.
Graphics now drag anyone
into granularity. As if
the features of a wave drew back
to reveal a pebble beach.
you become the trail of crumbs.
Why did you take a drive to Iowa?
There must be a reason
behind your latest walks.
Once duly noted in Central Park,
pixels of you amble
now in High Line Park.
Around the world,
the all-too-friendly knuckles of the state
parse data daily, examining its hygiene.
Yet analysts express surprise
when protesters erupt
into the streets as a single organism.
63 segments. What
could they have missed?
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