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Re: How Normal Am I?

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ForHackernews wrote: post #168
socialcooling wrote: post #158

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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…

This is really cool work! If somebody else wanted to get involved in working on projects like these, how would you suggest getting started?

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). Read Slashdot. Once you've got a grasp, think about how you could translate what you learnt so that your mom would understand it. Think about what your mom likes: quizes, human-interest stories. Lighthearted stuff. Then create your own translation.

It's probably easiest to connect with a local group of people who care about these issues.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by socialcooling »

drpgq wrote: post #188
socialcooling wrote: post #158

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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?

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 photos they were fed, etc.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by socialcooling »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #205
Shared404 wrote: post #131

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I thought the same. I read the TOS, they said it was all local, so I let the page load and then disconnected internet. It didn't seem to cause any problems.

So? A site like this could still send data when internet is on. Or the code could change at a later date.

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 javascript code for any 'http'. So open https://www.hownormalami.eu/main.js and then do CTRL-F and type in 'http'. See if any of the things you find seem to call home. Also scan over the code visually to check for any obfuscated code patterns which could hide additional instances of data transmission. In this case you won't find any shenanigans.

In general I applaud your critical stance.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by disown »

sellyme wrote: post #208
disown wrote: post #196

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HN: "delete Facebook" Also HN: "love microsoft", "love apple" ... It's almost like there paid PR campaigns sweeping across social media. It's almost like there is a switch that gets flipped and all of a sudden you get "google is evil" spam. Then that gets turned off and another switch gets turned on and you get "facebook is evil". It's almost like much of news, traditional media and now social media are just platform…

> It's almost like there paid PR campaigns sweeping across social media. Alternatively it's almost like Microsoft made a concerted effort to stop being the biggest scumbags in the entire industry and started doing some nice things, and people adjusted their opinions based on new evidence. Not that anyone is saying we should "love" them, but maybe we can stop referring to them as "Micro$oft" now. Not everything has to…

> Alternatively it's almost like Microsoft made a concerted effort to stop being the biggest scumbags in the entire industry and started doing some nice things, and people adjusted their opinions based on new evidence.

What evidence? Microsoft has been going more towards the "facebook" route with their move to turn the windows OS into a data collecting platform. And their "open source" move is filled with "telemetry".

> Not everything has to be some giant conspiracy.

Here comes those "conspiracy" talk. Everybody and their grandmother uses "conspiracy" as an argument against things they disagree with. I didn't say it was conspiracy. That corporations have PR campaigns isn't new. As a matter of fact, the founder of the site you are on wrote about it.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

To imply otherwise would be a conspiracy.

> (As for Apple, I strongly disagree with your take. I've seen almost nothing but negative sentiment towards Apple for years now, even from former fanboys)

You've seen nothing but negative sentiment about apple? Where? Here, they are mostly championed as the "anti-facebook". But maybe we are reading different threads.

Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by [deleted] »

socialcooling wrote: post #161
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #138

Was that a hoax? It started showing me pictures of dogs in shower caps for some reason, said it was loading and unloading random data sets, then began quizzing me about random things.

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 sentences. Try refreshing the page, or using a different browser.

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Re: How Normal Am I?

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Post by drpgq »

socialcooling wrote: post #212
drpgq wrote: post #188

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Where do the algorithms come from?

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 photos they were fed, etc.

How accurate is the BMI estimator? I trained one years ago, but the performance wasn't great.
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