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How Normal Am I?

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Re: How Normal Am I?

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post #4

Very interesting, but hangs at the last(?) step (life expectancy)

Could they be trying to make a point? About insurance abuses of this technology maybe? maybe not, could just be the algorithm failing. Or maybe they don't want to assume the liability of actually providing a number.

It looks like they're trying to guess at your life expectancy through your country, which they're guessing at using your IP address, which they can only get at if you agreed to the terms and conditions

Re: How Normal Am I?

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My life expectancy was the only score that it didn't give me. It just stayed at ... and then marked that as not normal

I found the issue, and it should hopefully be fixed. It happened if your IP address couldn't be used to predict your location.

Does it fall back to US if the IP address can't be used? Because this would be the first time a GeoIP database would move my EU IP address to the US...

Re: How Normal Am I?

#34

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

The only person I know who did something about his left ear, did admirable. Just don’t wrap the ear in a newspaper and hand it to a prostitute, as I doubt that sort of thing will work out well in these modern times.

Re: How Normal Am I?

#35
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 course requires an enormous effort in the preparation of the material.

Re: How Normal Am I?

#36
This website doesn't work at all for me (Safari, iOS 13). After asking for permission the video becomes modal and impossible to close, completely hijacking my browser and forcing me to quit the app. That's the state of JS in 2020 I guess.

Re: How Normal Am I?

#37

LOL funny how people here gibber about privacy but are more than happy to give their face to some rando website. Y'all are fucking muppets.

I share your concern and decided to not try the website. The site said no personal data is collected, and if we opt to share our data, it would be anonimized. Well yeah, but how about browser fingerprint? is that considered as a personal data? or if it's collected at all?

edit: Okay, I succumbed to my curiosity and decided to try it but with all my connection turned off. As far as my obeservation goes, at least there are no ajax call from this site and everything is functioning even without connection.

Re: How Normal Am I?

#39
post #34

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

The only person I know who did something about his left ear, did admirable. Just don’t wrap the ear in a newspaper and hand it to a prostitute, as I doubt that sort of thing will work out well in these modern times.

Before googling: Is this a van Gogh reference?

After googling: Yep, that's a van Gogh reference.

https://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/van-goghs-ear.html

> Vincent took the ear and wrapped it in newspaper. With a hat pulled down over his wound, he, with ear in hand, left the house to go to a “maison de tolerance”, a brothel close to the house. There he asked for a girl named Rachel who he gave the ear to saying “Guard this object carefully.”

Re: How Normal Am I?

#40

LOL funny how people here gibber about privacy but are more than happy to give their face to some rando website. Y'all are fucking muppets.

Is a picture without personally identifying information problematic? I assume pre-COVID you didn't walk around in a mask all the time.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/millions-people-upload...

https://hypebeast.com/2019/7/faceapp-120-million-users-faces...

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