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dasreboot
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Initially Posted - 08/11/2017 :  04:21:23  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
how does googlr know I'm sailing? an algorythm like:
if "on water":
if "zig zagging":
then activity="sailing"

I'm guessing.
Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 08/11/2017 :  05:41:18  Show Profile
Google KNOWS.........
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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islander
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Response Posted - 08/11/2017 :  07:21:31  Show Profile
So much for calling in sick.
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 08/11/2017 :  08:10:50  Show Profile
Well, process of elimination? Goog knows you're on the water so you're not walking on water, you're not in your car, and the bus doesn't go there. Now you could be in a rowboat, a canoe or kayak, a power boat. Now it could assume from the zigzag path you were drunk... Or, because you returned to the start point you were sailing. Therefore Goog's algorithm assumes if you're on the water and not drunk, you must be sailing!
Bruce Ross
Passage ~ SR-FK ~ C25 #5032

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 08/11/2017 :  08:14:35  Show Profile
... plus it has a zillion other sailors' histories in there. AI is pretty creepy, but logical.
Bruce Ross
Passage ~ SR-FK ~ C25 #5032

Port Captain — Milford, CT
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dasreboot
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Response Posted - 08/11/2017 :  11:26:22  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
quote:
Originally posted by islander

So much for calling in sick.


I'm honest with them! I tell them I have wind sickness.
Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 08/11/2017 :  15:46:48  Show Profile
I keep trying to get that sickness, but life keeps getting in the way!
DavidP
1975 C-22 SK #5459 "Shadowfax" Fleet 52
PO of 1984 C-25 SK/TR #4142 "Recess"
Percy Priest Yacht Club, Hamilton Creek Marina, Nashville, TN
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sethp001
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Response Posted - 08/11/2017 :  19:05:00  Show Profile
Impressive! Its kind of like when I research boat parts - and then those parts show up in ads wherever I go on the Internet.


Seth
"Outlier" 1987 Catalina 25 SR/SK/Traditional Interior #5541
"Zoo" 1977 Morgan Out Island 30
"Nomad" 1980 Prindle 16
"Lost" 1988 Catalina Capri 14.2 (sold - yay!)
"Marine Tex 1" Unknown Origin POS 8' Fiberglass Dinghy
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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 08/18/2017 :  18:55:53  Show Profile
As long as Google does not know how badly I am sailing . . . . .
Peter Bigelow
C-25 TR/FK #2092 Limerick
Rowayton, Ct
Port Captain: Rowayton/Norwalk/Darien CT
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 08/18/2017 :  19:38:48  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by bigelowp

As long as Google does not know how badly I am sailing . . . . .
But they might be tracking your tacking angles!
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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Chief RA
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Response Posted - 08/25/2017 :  07:05:15  Show Profile
We give far to much personal info to Google and others online. Don't allow GPS tracking when they ask. Don't tell them how many times a week you have sex! Your cellphone isn't grafted to your body either. Chief
COMPASS ROSE C250WK
Tall Mast, Wing keel
PORT CHIEF, Bodega Bay Ca.
IE,EE,FCC lic #1890
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