Roaring Elephant

In this News installment, coming to you courtesy of Dave and Endgaget, we talk about how the Osaka track is paving the way for data free flow across borders and take a look at the alleged problem with the UK's facial recognition system. Ending on a "high note", we discuss how Facebook and Googles (and a lot of other's) MLPerf benchmark is going to change the way we look at our machine learning setups. Or not... Data without frontiers! Have world leaders woken up and smelled the coffee that is reality or do they still believe data flow is something that stops at a border check point? The Osaka track that was initiated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems to indicate enlightenment is at hand. However, real concrete information is rather hard to find so we engage in a bout of theory-crafting on this subject in the hopes of coming to a useful conclusion. Wish us luck!   I'm sure I've seen that face before... This article on how some people claim the UK's facial recon system is quite bad and other