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A comment on Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday October 07, 2017 @08:02AM (#15423431)
Could analyse any name/username given to determine most likely gender and set it to the opposite.
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Re:Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials by lasserafn on Saturday October 07, 2017 @08:07AM (#15423441)
Absolutely, I've played around with this. There are tons of open source libraries to determine gender from name. Obviously it cannot be 100% correct, but it can provide a guess
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