Aaaaand HN has officially become Reddit.
People are down voting this, but to me it seems like a very justified comment. I find this to be to be intensely, but shallowly interesting. It appeals to me as a male, but does nothing else. This certainly doesn't teach me anything about the world.
Show HN: Pretty Girls at SxSW
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#22Who created this Hot-Spot.me? I want to get in touch with them, but can't find the info.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know, I know. I feel guilty already. I'm often torn between things I want to do because they seem exciting and controversial, and the effect it will have on people involved. I really hope I don't get any tear stained emails from panelists upset at this little project. But to answer your question, I'm actually talking about the panels that were recommended to me by the system based on my choices. The best one, which…
And not to be too hand-wavey, but what if (I know this sounds crazy) there's actually a reciprocal effect here? What if there's a natural conceptual affinity between people who are attractive to each other? What if I only like the topics I like, because those are the ones the people I find attractive like? Or they like them because I do? That's an interesting idea. You'd need to do a similar experiment, swapping the…
You know, I was actually thinking of this. What SxSW really needs is just a tiny bit of NLP to do a tag cloud for the panels. I think that could be used to perform the kind of experiment you describe.
And I wouldn't bias such a thing by predicting the outcome, but can we agree that the panelists on topics we're interested in will be appealing to us in some way? Maybe not physically all the time, but they will be attractive to us.
I guess all I'm saying is that the inverse is true. Someone's nature, and interests do come through in their appearance (book cover judging rules!), especially in a set of people already pre-selected for common interests like the sxsw crowd.
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#24Can I also say that I like how I don't tell people who in the panel helped them make the top 20 list?
For example, this is currently on the list of boys: http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP8383
Will Pete and Dennis fight over who got more votes?
I will never tell.
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#26It's unfair to compare most of these people with Felicia Day.