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socialcooling

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About socialcooling

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    Comment #41799279

    Free 100% client-side chatting and writing with AI. Even your documents are stored in your browser. Which means you get 100% privacy: everything happens on your own device. Some fe…

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    Comment #28522018

    I've created an educational game in which you can try to fool a face recognition algorithm by making funny faces. It's 100% privacy friendly, running locally in your own browser.

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    Comment #24660799

    Technically. But as a European I'd already be in a lot of trouble for breaking the law, since the website promises to not collect personal data. What you can do is check the javasc…

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    Comment #24660699

    The main one is FaceApiJS. One I trained myself (BMI), and the others I just scavenged from existing Github projects. So with most of these I don't know how they were trained, what…

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    Comment #24660656

    That's difficult to say. You could start with getting to to know an issue and specialising in it. Reading books from academic writers (not the stuff sold at airport bookstores). Re…

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    Comment #24654315

    Ah, so that's it! Thanks!

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    Comment #24653142

    That would be great actually. I've enabled debug mode. Add ?debug to the end of the url to get a peak under the engine. So: https://www.hownormalami.eu/?debug

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    Comment #24653108

    Actually, the checkbox does nothing. It's just for show :-)

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    Comment #24652992

    Yes you are correct.

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    Comment #24651877

    You may enjoy this blogpost I made that goes into how the BMI prediction algorithm was developed. It's the only one in the project that I trained myself. https://www.sherpapieces.e…

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    Comment #24651806

    Yikes. I'll look into it. I take it you tried the button in the top-left to switch? Were you able to select the other camera if you reloaded the page?

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    Comment #24651761

    Creator here. It sounds like the main face detection algorithm (faceApiJS) wasn't able to load somehow. Then it will just try to keep you entertained by spouting funny loading sent…

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    Comment #24651593

    Creator here. The project was created as part of my role as artist within the Sherpa consortium. It's a Horizon2020 research project whose goal is to figure out what Europeans beli…

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    Comment #24651494

    That's very strange. It doesn't use cookies at all. I know because I built it :-)

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    Comment #24648532

    oh, thanks for bringing that to my attention, I'll look into it.

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    Comment #24647866

    I suspect someone has tried to manipulate their score. I found one database entry that had only an extreme beauty score. I've hardened the system against this now.

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    Comment #24647858

    You're very welcome.

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    Comment #24645330

    I found the issue, and it should hopefully be fixed. It happened if your IP address couldn't be used to predict your location.

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    Comment #24643359

    Age and gender are derived using the FaceApiJS project. In my own experience it's doesn't vary as wildly if you're a white male. With other ethnicities the predictability levels ca…

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    Comment #24643326

    Yikes. Thanks, I'll look into it. The terms and conditions have no influence on this, but it could that that one of the scores required to create the life expectancy prediction is …

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    Comment #24643318

    You're right! Thanks, I've fixed it!

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    Comment #24641927

    Alright, in that case it's a real service ;-)

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    Comment #24636635

    Indeed, it's not a real service. It just pretends to be. You can just use the tool for free. Although as time passes, it seems maybe it should be real...