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Re:How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the Uni... by cubefox on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:07AM (#36268913)
A similar thing happened when a female activist researcher declared the ML conference "NIPS" to have a misogynist name and successfully petitioned to rename it to "NeurIPS", the absurdity of which is detailed here:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4476

It sounds harsh, but recently some feminist researchers seem to have nothing better to do than fighting imaginary sexism.

Of course a low resolution image isn't useful for many applications, but for others it's perfectly fine, like judging the quality of dithering algorithms, which are often tested on familiar pictures like Lena or a photo of Michelangelo's David. For 3D rendering similar things apply to the Utah teapot or the Stanford bunny. E.g. a lossy 3D compression algorithm might be judged on how it handles the ears of the bunny and the holes of the teapot compared to other solutions.

Re:How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the Uni... by westurner on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:19AM (#36270679)
(All humans have those. New York already fought for their legal right to public anatomy, too.)

Are there higher resolution test images for ML? Maybe something inanimate that can't be judged and thus can't go to heavem anyway.

sklearn.datasets.load_iris, load_digits, : https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/toy_dataset.html

Sklearn.datasets sample images has an image of a flower but not a USA!: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/loading_other_datas...

The W3C RDF Primer could describe Shape rdfs:Class'es instead of People and their contact information rdfs:Property(s). An Object-Oriented Programming and Linked Data exercise: Arrange these Classes into a hierarchy, according to their features: Shape, Square, Rectangle, Triangle, Quadrilateral, Triangle.