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Re:A Horrible Experiment by greenduck on Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:57AM (#24533235)
This is pretty egregious.

For those of us working on machine learning, does anybody know of datasets that have decent representation of different colors of skin. That seems like the cause here and thinking back, my datasets aren't the most diverse out there.

Re:A Horrible Experiment by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:52AM (#24534042)
ML inherits the biases of the data it is trained on. If you want “unbiased” ML models, you must train them on data that is carefully constructed to avoid the biases deemed undesirable.
Re:A Horrible Experiment by GuB-42 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @10:32AM (#24534267)
I remember I took an introduction class in machine learning when I was a student.

I was surprised how important bias removal was. Preparing the dataset was more than half of the work. And the class was more about statistics than anything else.

It wasn't about racial bias, ethics, or anything like that. More like if you feed too many "5" in your handwriting recognition algorithm, it will will start seeing 5 everywhere.

Re:A Horrible Experiment by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:05AM (#24534442)
Preparing the dataset is 99.9% of pretty much all ML and data science.

Just like all software engineering is maintenance, all DS is data cleaning.

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Re:A Horrible Experiment by Lammy on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:09AM (#24534468)
I don’t know “who”. Please tell me. I’m sorry to sound flippant but I mean this sincerely since I’ve never observed any correlation between downvote-used-as-disagree and any particular beliefs.
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Re:A Horrible Experiment by Lammy on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:08PM (#24535294)
I 'vouch'ed for your comment, for what it's worth. I still don't know 'who'.
Re:A Horrible Experiment by svrb on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:24PM (#24536036)
The dataset linked from this thread on Twitter may serve your needs too?: https://twitter.com/vinayprabhu/status/1307497736191635458?s...
Re:A Horrible Experiment by Lammy on Sunday September 20, 2020 @10:54AM (#24534391)
No it isn’t. Look at the massive empty space this person had to construct between the two content areas of those tall images to get it to behave like this. No reasonable person would ever create something like that accidentally in a way that would create this behavior.