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Re:FastText Repo Archived on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:37AM (#40155744)
The official fastText repo was archived on March 19th. There doesn't seem to have been any official statement on it.
Re:Cdpath: Easily Navigate Directories in the Terminal on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:51PM (#38552239)
Why not just use symlinks in your home dir? Like: cd ~/blog
Re:A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:14PM (#32098825)
Author here. Nobody has ever asked about the art before. It depicts Maruyama Oukyo, a famous painter of ghosts (and other things), where one of his pieces comes to life and frightens him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maruyama_%C5%8Ckyo

Re:Physiognomic Artificial Intelligence on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:46AM (#28669991)
Besides the base rate effect did you not see the article already posted in this thread with the many problems with that paper?

https://www.theregister.com/2019/03/05/ai_gaydar/

Re:Physiognomic Artificial Intelligence on Monday September 27, 2021 @05:32AM (#28668738)
I also can't disprove the existence of unicorns, but I can cite a preponderance of the evidence.

Why is the shape of your face different than the lumps on your head? Even if you find a correlation in the data why would there be a causative relation? If I'm innocent one day but steal a loaf of bread do you expect the shape of my face to change? The idea makes no sense.

Re:Physiognomic Artificial Intelligence on Monday September 27, 2021 @01:18AM (#28667311)
> When a computer can accurately predict (90%~) sexuality

Oh you mean the thing where it still "works" with faces blurred out because it's not picking up face shape?

https://www.theregister.com/2019/03/05/ai_gaydar/

> criminal proclivity

You mean the smile detector?

https://www.callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_crim...

This stuff is bullshit and it can't work. The idea that it could work is magical thinking with no basis in reality.

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