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Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

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Re: Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

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https://globalnews.ca/news/4855500/facebook-10-year-challeng...

https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1085675097766031360?ref_...

and rebuttal.

I know that Facebook's actions mean that it no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt but this seems like a non story that someone really wants to be a story.

Thinking about it lest say 10,000 people respond, is that even enough data to move the needle? Which photo do you use for the old vs recent? There is alot of cleanup that manually needs to be done for this to be a decent data set. Basic common sense says this is a non story.

I did my post undergrad research in 2000 in neural nets and the data sets were our biggest limiting factor, second was computation time. 10,000 data points was a huge set back then and still wasn't enough for most tasks.

Re: Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

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https://globalnews.ca/news/4855500/facebook-10-year-challeng... https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1085675097766031360?ref_... and rebuttal. I know that Facebook's actions mean that it no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt but this seems like a non story that someone really wants to be a story. Thinking about it lest say 10,000 people respond, is that even enough data to move the needle? Which photo do you use…

10,000 ?

It's probably many many more times that about three times the magnitude.

It might be a bit of a noisy dataset now that it's a meme.

Re: Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

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https://globalnews.ca/news/4855500/facebook-10-year-challeng... https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1085675097766031360?ref_... and rebuttal. I know that Facebook's actions mean that it no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt but this seems like a non story that someone really wants to be a story. Thinking about it lest say 10,000 people respond, is that even enough data to move the needle? Which photo do you use…

Cleanup is standard work for any dataset. With enough money and a pile of Indians working for cheap hourly rates you can clean through A LOT of data. 10,000? Try a million!

Re: Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

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Facebook already has access to a larger repository of photos going back over a decade and all the years inbetween along with decent face recognition to create a much bigger dataset than resorting to a hashtag challenge. But I guess that wouldn't be newsworthy.

Re: Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

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https://globalnews.ca/news/4855500/facebook-10-year-challeng... https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1085675097766031360?ref_... and rebuttal. I know that Facebook's actions mean that it no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt but this seems like a non story that someone really wants to be a story. Thinking about it lest say 10,000 people respond, is that even enough data to move the needle? Which photo do you use…

Cleanup is standard work for any dataset. With enough money and a pile of Indians working for cheap hourly rates you can clean through A LOT of data. 10,000? Try a million!

My guess is you can just use EXIF metadata and/or picture resolution/sharpness to easily sort old Vs. new. Cameras have come a long way in ten years..

Re: Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

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https://globalnews.ca/news/4855500/facebook-10-year-challeng... https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1085675097766031360?ref_... and rebuttal. I know that Facebook's actions mean that it no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt but this seems like a non story that someone really wants to be a story. Thinking about it lest say 10,000 people respond, is that even enough data to move the needle? Which photo do you use…

Cleanup is standard work for any dataset. With enough money and a pile of Indians working for cheap hourly rates you can clean through A LOT of data. 10,000? Try a million!

Why do they need to be Indian? Sure the data would reflect that a plurality of global low wage workers are from India, but there are also plenty of low wage workers who are not ethnically Indian or geographically based in India (such as all of the Americans working on r/beermoney).
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