An app named for hipsters that categorises all hipsters as ugly? That may well be the most hipster thing there has ever been, it's certainly within standard "irony" parameters for them.
I am sending pouting selfies to a robot. Its AI is well buff
I like to pick roses on a summer’s day and meeting friends. I dearly wish for world peace. I hope to work with children, just as soon as I have completed my doctorate in astrophysics. Not really, but I am in training. I am about to enter a beauty contest. At the risk of slipping back into my default double-entendre mode, it’s …
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Monday 18th April 2016 14:21 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Re: How dare they?
> Hence I am destined to remain soup-catcher free
I recently allowed my moustache to grow much longer than usual. Until the pain of trying to eat it every time I had a sandwich and having to clean [$RANDOM_BEVERAGE] out of it post-drinking eventually made me strim it back to the usual length.
Although I'll doubtless grow it longer again as Management-Committee-of-One liked it longer. I'd like to think that it's because it made me look dashing and handsome[1] but I suspect that, again, it's because it covers more of my face..
[1] Stop sniggering at the back. We all have to have our yearning after the impossible.
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Friday 15th April 2016 16:03 GMT Doctor_Wibble
Re: How dare they?
> Beardr anyone?
A very long time ago, and the last time I ever opened an email attachment without quadruple-checking it, I ran the attached exe (on a genuinely typed real email from someone I knew) and got a popup message saying "You've been bearded" and moments later noticed that my desktop background had been changed for a tiled array of pictures of a lady of a somewhat surprisingly hirsute nature and decided that this had been a lucky escape and a good lesson in the nuances of trust in the modern world.
For some it would be a warning to be careful of what you wish for. And a possible doubling of site traffic.
Paris, because obviously.
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Monday 18th April 2016 14:17 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Re: How dare they?
> baby-faced boys who can't grow a decent one like mine!
It could be said that I can't really grow a decent beard[1] either - hasn't stopped me having one for the last 25 years[2],,
[1] As in "Captain Birdeye" decent. My Dad did but he'd had a lot more practice at beardism than me.
[2] Also helped by my management-committee-of-one who doesn't like me without a beard.[3]
[3] Actually - to be fair I think "prefers me with a beard" is closer to the truth.
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Friday 15th April 2016 09:48 GMT BugabooSue
You clean up nice!!
Actually Dabbsy, I'm impressed! Forget the article - I really thought for a moment the headline photo was of the new JB.
I thought, "Mmmm. He's nice! A good choice." (I think you look a bit like Zachary Quinto. Thought it might have been him in the role for a second too)
"Mummy! I'm scared!" I fancy Dabbsy! :)
Nice one fella. I go read the article now.
Susi xx
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Friday 15th April 2016 10:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Another quality piece
I love the juxtaposition in the picture, although that also suggests a suspicious competence with Photoshop or similar applications :).
There is actually an application called PortraitProfessional that automates cleaning up someone's facial shot, but it'll need something like AWS in computing power to handle my face. It would overtax my Macbook with 2,5 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM..
What I love more, however, is the article - excellent :).
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Friday 15th April 2016 10:50 GMT Mage
modern era’s obsession with misspelt branding
It's not modern. At least to 1880s. It's to do with trademarks etc, easier to protect "Batrymax" than "Battery Max". Or Kleen than Clean (Kleenex).
Though Google slipped up. Enid Blyton has "Google buns" in the "Faraway Tree" series, I think maybe 1942.
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Friday 15th April 2016 21:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: modern era’s obsession with misspelt branding
Yep, you cannot trademark a common word. You can also lose your trademark if it becomes a common word.
My workplace discovered the former earlier this week. Kleenex is battling the latter in the US where the word is becoming synonymous with the word "tissue".
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Friday 15th April 2016 14:40 GMT I ain't Spartacus
It's called Saddr.
Does a comparison with the nearest other person who has the app, then detonates the batteries killing the loser. The idea is to gradually increase human happiness - or at least train people to be able to pretend.
It's billed as a "synergistic human lifestyle improvement paragidm"
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Friday 15th April 2016 12:07 GMT Voland's right hand
Read it till this point
There are the usual things: symmetry of the face,. That is the point where it became clear that whoever wrote the algo and fed the initial data has no clue.
For the reference - pretty much all holders of the "my jaw just dropped" award in the actress guild as well as all supermodels are slightly ASYMMETRIC. This is a well established one in various experiments - if you give humans a perfectly symmetric sample (usually obtained by reflecting half a face in a picture along the vertical line) versus a sample with some minimal asymmetry the choose the latter. The same goes for perfect versus a couple of imperfections here and there. Just a few examples of asymmetric and imperfect beauty which have at some point held the crown of "Possibly the Most Beautiful Woman on the Planet": Ornella Mutti, Angelina Jolie, Mila Kunis.
The list can be continued ad naseum. It is a reality - you do not get in that category with a "perfect face". Shows that whoever did the algo and explained it was an engineer and needs to get out a bit more :)
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Friday 15th April 2016 13:51 GMT Voland's right hand
Re: Read it till this point
Wow! Who knew?
Lots of people. The "is this face pretty, trustworthy, etc" is something that has been researched very heavily and some of it using proper scientific methods and large data samples. Similarly, what makes a fully or semi-artificial (made from multiple real elements) face for an avatar believable or not. Absolute "perfection" as symmetry, etc is perceived as "creepy" by 80%+ of the population.
All of this is actually very well known - lots of (fairly) scientific papers on the subject. Some of it in use in 3 letters too by the way - at least some of this has been financed by them in the past as they sometimes need this (or at least used to) for agent selection.
Clearly, whoever wrote the AI which looked for "symmetry first" has failed to do the most basic research in his field.
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Wednesday 18th May 2016 13:03 GMT ChrisBedford
Re: Read it till this point
"Clearly, whoever wrote the AI which looked for "symmetry first" has failed to do the most basic research in his field."
Yes well maybe that line was shortened for simplicity. Acutely assymmetrical faces are (much) creepier than the perfectly symmetrical (e.g. Charles Laughton's Quasimodo) so the algorithm is *probably* looking for *near* symmetry. I'm guessing someone just didn't feel like explaining all the detail - and he obviously didn't need to, the commentards have certainly taken care of that chore.
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