Passkeys Are Here
Passkeys Are Here Nobody likes passwords. They are a pain for users and a pain for companies with websites. Many people take the easy route by using almost trivial passwords. A study found the most popular passwords are 123456, 123456789, qwerty, password, 1234567, 12345678, 12345, iloveyou, 111111, 123123, abc123, and qwerty123. Many users have a […]
What is a Passkey? by John R. Patrick
What is a Passkey? by John R. Patrick Words: 1,154 Reading time: 4.3 minutes Every March for the past 12 years, I have given a lecture called Tech Talk at Hammock Dunes Club in Palm Coast, Florida where I live in the winter. The purpose of the annual lecture is to share with my friends […]
Is AI Facial Recognition Good or Bad? by John R. Patrick
Is AI Facial Recognition Good or Bad? by John R. Patrick Written: April 2023 Last week, I explained the basics of how facial recognition works. There are many pluses and minuses about use of the technology. I would now like to share a couple of examples of my personal encounters with facial recognition. One use case […]
Faces by John R. Patrick
Faces by John R. Patrick Written: March 2023 Now that I have covered cats and dogs with machine learning, I will branch out to facial recognition of humans. Facial recognition is a technology capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video camera. Facial recognition has […]
News from johnpatrick.com – 02/17/2023
“It’s All About Attitude” https://www.johnpatrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/HEALTH-ATTITUDE-SERIES-LOGO-SPINNING-BOOK-WOODENDESK-24SECS-1920X1080.mp4 Health Attitude was the start this week. My marketing partner, Billy Wright, and I tried an Amazon promotional idea. We set the price at zero, and the books immediately starting “selling”, 241 of them. The theory behind the promotion is it will generate interest, people will tell others about the books, […]
