Fawkes

[ fawks ]

noun

1. Guy, 1570–1606, English conspirator and leader in the Gunpowder plot of 1605: Guy Fawkes Day is observed on November 5 by the building of effigies and bonfires.

Fawkes

/ fɔːks /

noun

1. FawkesGuy15701606MEnglishPOLITICS: conspirator Guy . 1570–1606, English conspirator, executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament (1605). Effigies of him (guys) are burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes Day (Nov 5)

Example Sentences

In a small experiment with a data set of 50 images, Fawkes was 100% effective against all of them, preventing models trained on tweaked images of people from later recognizing images of those people in fresh images.

From MIT Technology Review

Fawkes has already been downloaded nearly half a million times from the project website.

From MIT Technology Review

Fawkes trains a model to learn something wrong about you, and this tool trains a model to learn nothing about you.

From MIT Technology Review

Give Fawkes a bunch of selfies and it will add pixel-level perturbations to the images that stop state-of-the-art facial recognition systems from identifying who is in the photos.

From MIT Technology Review

Fawkes may keep a new facial recognition system from recognizing you—the next Clearview, say.

From MIT Technology Review

Thus the report on the Guy Fawkes effigies, which also was picked up by RT, the English-language Russian satellite channel.

From The Daily Beast

If the majority's going to take back its share of the nation's riches, those Guy Fawkes masks may need to go on again.

From The Daily Beast

In one of these photos a middle-aged woman with headscarf marches wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

From The Daily Beast

As Fawkes noted, the Nazi reference has been removed, and no explanation appears forthcoming.

From The Daily Beast

He carried a sign reading “Angry Pacifist” and wore a USS Staten Island naval cap with a Guy Fawkes mask strapped on backward.

From The Daily Beast

Short of catching me like a sort of Guy Fawkes blowing up the palace, the case is about as strong as it could be.

From Project Gutenberg

Fawkes is made to speak in the third person in all the four preceding examinations, three of which bear his autograph signature.

From Project Gutenberg

Each page has the signature (in copy) of ‘Jhon Jhonson,’ the name by which Fawkes chose to be known.

From Project Gutenberg

Fawkes here clearly takes the whole terrible design, with the exception of the incident of the mine, on his own shoulders.

From Project Gutenberg

According to the story told by Fawkes this place was let to Mrs. Skinner by Whynniard to store her coals in.

From Project Gutenberg