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aiahopeful commented on A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system   twitter.com/GambleLee/sta... · Posted by u/dmit
TFortunato · 9 years ago
I tried the demo. A little sad, that it sees me as 12 years older than I am, and that I apparently always look angry and disgusted! I'm going to blame it on my glasses and bushy beard, and try to look at the bright side - apparently face scanning systems aren't quite good enough to get a read on me yet. (And try not to be too sad about looking like a grumpy old man)

(Anyone else with a glasses, a beard, or other non-typical facial features want to comment? I'm curious now how well their system handles these?)

aiahopeful · 9 years ago
I'm a 25 year old male, bald with a full beard, and it thinks I'm a 33 year old woman. At least it could tell I was happy?
aiahopeful commented on Too much of the research process is now shrouded by the opaque use of computers   theconversation.com/how-c... · Posted by u/rtplasma
aiahopeful · 10 years ago
This is exactly the problem that the Center for Open Science [https://cos.io/] is hoping to solve with the Open Science Framework [https://www.osf.io].

These are the same people behind the large Reproducibility Project that was on the top of HN not too long ago.

aiahopeful commented on Machine Learning for Developers   xyclade.github.io/Machine... · Posted by u/haifeng
p1esk · 10 years ago
Java and Scala? Who uses that in ML? Python has long been the best language for ML, with some competition from Matlab.
aiahopeful · 10 years ago
Scala is actually getting quite popular for machine learning, as it translates well to parallelization.
aiahopeful commented on Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/alexcasalboni
spacemanmatt · 11 years ago
THIS IS THE POST I was looking for. Thank you. I also think it's possible they did not do diligence on causality.
aiahopeful · 11 years ago
> "It doesn't mean Facebook causes depression, but that depressed feelings and lots of time on Facebook and comparing oneself to others tend to go hand in hand," said Steers.

It's pretty explicit that they're not claiming causality.

u/aiahopeful

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