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I got 7.9 for beauty index which was pretty surprising. I wonder what is the exact average over the whole sample? And who got the 8+ marks? The distribution would definitely be interesting to see.
On the other hand, my life expectancy is in the 60's, despite having a normal BMI.
What a great website and cool way to present a technical topic. Online education is still in its infancy and when we talk nowadays about good examples of online education, we usually think of videos and (in the best case) of websites where students can play with interactive models, solve exercises, etc. But this website demonstrates that you can still go mucher further in involving the listener as a person. This of c…
I second this. I've just spent the summer putting together an online experiment for a student along similar lines: https://www.doesmyrobotunderstand.me/ (please, feel free! We need subjects...) I wish I'd known about the Javascript face analysis beforehand! And also how hard it would be to learn Javascript ;) And how to do that cool embedded video thing.
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I mean, it's an EU-funded academic site designed to raise awareness of privacy issues, so I'm inclined to believe them when they say they aren't keeping any of this data. Maybe it's because programmers tend to think categorically, but I find HN frequently has this problem where people are freaking out like "why is it okay when Mozilla does X but you don't want Google to do X?!" as though we're supposed to treat every…
Context mattering has nothing to do with sharing your face with a random site that claims to be supported by "The EU". This is a site made by one guy, not the EU.
I don't think I'm wrong, either.
I got 7.9 for beauty index which was pretty surprising. I wonder what is the exact average over the whole sample? And who got the 8+ marks? The distribution would definitely be interesting to see.
I was around 5, repositioned my webcam because it/my face was askew, and I shot up to 8.7! While I am flattered, experience certainly does not match that number. On the other hand, my life expectancy is in the 60's, despite having a normal BMI.
I pointed my camera at my monitor and brought up conventionally attractive celebrities. No one got higher than 6.2. Zac Efron: 6.2 Henry Cavill: 5.9 Pierce Brosnan: 5.1 Shemar Moore: 4.7
I would imagine there is some sort of penalty given the face is on a 2D surface.
HN: "delete Facebook" Also HN: "show your face to this random site so an algorithm can tell you if you're hot or not"
The Joke is the line that says: "Read terms: NO - Normal (88%)" Gave me a chuckle. We are so used to shitty TOS, cookie banners and all kinds of BS that we learned to just click them away.
In makes me a bit angry sometimes, you must often confirm you READ it, but it is undoable. They really don't expect you to either, because if they would, they'd be saying their service would really only be used by people reading their entire TOS, which would be too small a crowd to base your business on.
Of course tosdr.org is an interesting alternative and as far as cookie banners are confirmed I truly am finding myself conditioned click them away asap.
So then the issue is who has this data, because algorithms are increasingly becoming commodity. Right now the biggest databases are superpowers, big tech , and ordinary countries. One way to remove the competitive advantage of any good or bad actor, is to make the data commonplace, in order to render it worthless, in order to remove the incentive for so much spying.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but this reads to me like "if surveillance doesn't produce a worthwhile society, you're just not using enough of it."
I didn't give it access to my camera but it sounds like it's giving "attractiveness" ratings, but jeez, that's super complex. I imagine this thing is measuring symmetry and proportion, but that'll only get you so far; the "hottest" A-list actors usually have a kind of wabi-sabi quality, with oversized teeth, or an interestingly shaped nose, or a crooked smile. There are also obviously all kinds of attractive, and emotional baggage that factors into what's attractive to people (they're reminded of a parent or childhood crush, etc.)
The most interesting attractiveness-measurer I ever saw was a subreddit where you'd post your own photo, and members of the community would post photos of people who are equal to your own attractiveness, so it effectively threw ego out of the equation.
This app underestimated my age by a decade. I'm flattered. It almost matches with how old I feel I am.