That is nothing short of hilarious. The machine knows best! Who are you, human, to pretend you are able to measure yourself?!
> AI for memorizing generic trends
It's possible "AI" may be just a pretext to sell mass-made junk and pretend it is adjusted to each individual.
It's also an internal distraction. They'd achieve something much closer to what they promise if they just threw some old-school regression analysis at the problem. But that's not cool these days, plus it's hard to relabel as AI even for the marketroids these days, and would involve actual work :).
This applies to many "AI companies" - so many want to either have easy process (throw data at some random Kaggle model and hope it sticks) or just a buzzword to bullshit investors with. Sometimes both.
Talk about distraction...
And by "neural network", I mean my brain.
And by "thousands of fashion trends ", I mean I look at people in the mall.
Maybe it could be considered class of fallacy, a kind that one would say the most popular choice of integers between 1 and 2 is 1.5000001.
Was excited to see how the pants and shirts fit (on the site it looked awesome, but then the actual user reviews on some were so bad lol)
Also, the founder is the Japanese guy going to the moon.
A lot of people do not in fact know how to measure themselves properly for clothes (many people measure the wrong part of their body for the "waist"). Perhaps even more people think they're a certain size, but have never actually measured themselves, they just go by the measurements on clothes they already own, which are frequently "vanity sized" to make people feel better. I don't envy solving this problem between two sets of users: people who actually have the correct measurements and people who believe strongly that they do, but are quite wrong. Imagine how far off you would be if you went by your Old Navy pants: https://flowingdata.com/2010/09/30/advertised-vs-actual-wais...
The size of the clothes also need to account for the fabric type. If it stretches x%, then you’ll want to maybe make it smaller, so it stretches to fit, or it will look frumpy. If the fabric doesn’t stretch at all, you’ll need to make sure there’s enough ease in the garment so you can bend and move your arms naturally.
"I, For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords"
into the comments field when ordering :)
> It's possible "AI" may be just a pretext to sell mass-made junk and pretend it is adjusted to each individual.
Actually, I wouldn't mind that too much. It is difficult for me to find well-fitting trousers, so if they can supply those for me, I'm happy as long as the quality is acceptable. Plus their price is roughly half of what a proper tailor would cost me, so I kind of expected them to cut some corners.
This brings a whole new meaning to "over fitting"
It may very well be to my own detriment (there is a lot of promise in either) but fortunately there are lots of interesting problems outside these areas and I can just treat the mention of either of those topics as red flags.
That said, I want to note that I have had good results with Stitchfix but that was due to entering professionally-taken measurements. I got even better results however, from a local to-order suit maker and bought the full suit there, but basic shirt(s) from Stitchfix
And yes, my measurements were also from a professional tailor. But the resulting trouser has (among other issues) been "corrected" to a 15cm shorter outside leg length, so I wonder if a professional vs. an amateur measuring it would have made much of a difference.
I'll take my VC money now, please.
Whoa.
customer: Please, I need a trouser size 34"
AI: Thank you sir, but according to my data, a 33" will better suit you
It's WFH time now though, I'm wearing 2/3XL shirts (good cut though, they don't look baggy) and pajama pants and have done so for over a year now. I am here for the comfort.
I'm trying to think of a way this makes sense. Do they have access to some big database about you that they can use to predict how you'll screw up your measurements?
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You don't have any way to know which of the measurements is wrong.
You don't know what correction to apply. The best you can do is shrink along one or more of the dimensions in the direction of a mean of something, which may or may not be relevant to that customer. In return you intentionally mess up the orders of many customers, wasting their time in the process.
I kind of get where they are coming from, though. I myself also love over-engineering solutions ^_^
Cool, what they mean is they probably have some (barely) linear fits of people to some dimension, but of course that breaks down quick as the USAF found out in the 40s https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
I switched to Bombfell and I had been very happy until my cancellation.(canceled cause I wanted to explore fashion myself)
- Bill Vaughan (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/07/foul-computer)
I recently ordered a custom tailored set of shirt, trousers, and belt. Their site was bragging about their great AI technology, but sadly I didn't notice that red flag early enough.
The results were nothing short of disastrous. I sent in my measurements and they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that said that they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit. The belt they included was a completely different size than the trouser and I'm still waiting for the shirt to arrive. And now I'm fighting the usual uphill battle to talk to a human and get this mess fixed or get a refund.
The core of Stitchfix is personalization, as they say. But that means an individual solution for each individual customer, and not AI for memorizing generic trends in a huge dataset.