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Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by Shared404 »

socialcooling wrote: post #179
Shared404 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How unusual. I did follow the link from the TOS to the application. Would you like me to try again/do anything else to help debug? Edit: turning on noprocrast because I have work to get done. I'll check back in an hour or so.

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

I went and took another look, it turns out it did work properly, it was just that I read the UI wrong the first time.

Sorry for the false alarm, I should've done better checking first.

Edit: See other comment

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by Shared404 »

Shared404 wrote: post #181
socialcooling wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I went and took another look, it turns out it did work properly, it was just that I read the UI wrong the first time. Sorry for the false alarm, I should've done better checking first. Edit: See other comment

Scratch that.

I was able to reproduce the error, it happens when you open the "Terms and Conditions" in a new tab and then click through to the app from there.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by taneq »

ibudiallo wrote: post #29

Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1]. I wanna say I'm disappointed, but I'd be lying. I'm happy that A.I. cannot detect us black people. I'll need to do something about that left ear though. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863

I kinda wanna see your ear now.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by justinlloyd »

INTPenis wrote: post #68
ibudiallo wrote: post #29

Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1]. I wanna say I'm disappointed, but I'd be lying. I'm happy that A.I. cannot detect us black people. I'll need to do something about that left ear though. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863

I have a big beard and thick black framed glasses, often image recognition can't find my face either. And I'm also happy about it. :) I'm extremely nearsighted so through the glasses my face looks smaller than it actually is. The outlines of my face are shifted. Whenever my gfs daughter wanted to play with snapchat and me I had to take off the glasses for it to work.

TL/DR; it's a off-hand joke.

Cannot decide if I should respond with a meme reference to Samual L. Jackson asking "Does he look like a *?" or ask "Do you also cook? Do you have a deep voice? Are we only used to seeing your torso and your hands? Do you have a popular YouTube show?"

But frankly, that's interesting the accommodation you have to make for an algorithm to play with your daughter. I wonder what other accommodations people make in life because of algorithms.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by kristopolous »

ibudiallo wrote: post #29

Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1]. I wanna say I'm disappointed, but I'd be lying. I'm happy that A.I. cannot detect us black people. I'll need to do something about that left ear though. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863

Maybe someone can enlighten me. I first heard about this problem 10 years ago. I'm sure it's been known far longer.

Is there some extremely difficult algorithmic problem preventing these systems from working on people with darker skin?

I had presumed it was a long corrected oversight but it still appears to be a problem.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by taneq »

icoder wrote: post #147
turbinerneiter wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't click TOS's away not because I am used to them, but because I decided they are not worth my time (based on their length and abundance, how I value my time and what I gain from reading them). 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…

> you must often confirm you READ it, but it is undoable

If they actually wanted you to read it, they wouldn't present 50kb of text in a tiny font on a phone screen and give you an 'accept' button at the top (much less give you a 'view' and 'accept' button where the former leads to the 50kb of tiny text and the latter just glosses over the whole affair.)

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by MetaDark »

I was surprised to see without wearing any makeup that it was 93% sure I'm a woman, considering that I'm a trans woman.

Although, it did say I'm 16 with a BMI of 18.3, which is a huge undershot. There's no way I lost 45 pounds since I last weighed myself.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by drpgq »

socialcooling wrote: post #158
unityByFreedom wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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 believe are the biggest issues around AI that we'll experience in 2025. Most of the other partners are universities, and I'm the lucky one who gets to translate what we learn into art pieces. Learn more about Sherpa here: https://www.project-sh…

Where do the algorithms come from?

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by therealdrag0 »

caballeto wrote: post #126

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 guess you're not actually asking, but I got 9.3.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by CameronNemo »

skytreader wrote: post #55

So apparently the algorithms say I'm almost 10 years younger than I actually am (late 20s, algos say I'm just about to get my student driver's license). I wanted to see how much the camera quality affects these scores so I wanted to try on mobile but I can't get it to switch to the front camera.

If you are on Android then you can try firefox mobile. It allowed me to select which camera to use.
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