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So the language acquisition stuff could be an n=1 just-so story, but meanwhile:

Deb Roy and Phil Decamp just invented a way to efficiently browse days of multiple video streams - on paper, if you want:

http://video.fastcompany.com/plugins/player.swf?v=2014e22b27...

Their work on "time worms" is astounding; unfortunately, the video ends before zooming out to the next step: multitrack timeworms with hundreds of cameras; broadband recordings of ALL THE CHANNELS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4ce4mexrU&t=11m56s

We can put off the hard problem of CV-driven video search; we can solve the much easier problem of "leverage people's brains to recognize patterns". Visualizations are the new algorithm.



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