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It seems eerily similar to https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/ Are the two sites affiliated ?


no, they aren't


It reminds me of this case of a hypnotised bank teller http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7309947.stm


I wonder how the training dataset was built


This is the sort of thing where artificially generated samples work well. Spawn a random set of blocks, run a physics engine for a bit to have them pile up, add random lights and render to an image. The renderer can also give you a ground truth annotation for each pixel to the corresponding block type.



Without going into a debate whether this statement makes sense or not in absolute terms, it seems to make sense in some people's heads, as differences can be measured across different groups in the 500+ user population. The very purpose of this game is to measure biases and perception, not reality

See: https://imgur.com/a/kUxsV1M


Since it is based on perception, and many people perceive themselves as outside the binary male/female categories, shouldn't the first question about my gender give me more options than just male and female?


An analogy would be to conclude, after going to a Mensa meeting, that most smart people are socially inept :)


> "wait, if there's no advertising, how are new companies going to let the world know they exist?"

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24480572

"ABSTRACT. The vast amount of product information available to consumers through online search renders most advertising obsolete as a tool for conveying product information. Advertising remains useful to firms only as a tool for persuading consumers to purchase advertised products. In the mid-twentieth century, courts applying the antitrust laws held that such persuasive advertising is anticompetitive and harmful to consumers, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was unable to pursue an antitrust campaign against persuasive advertising for fear of depriving consumers of advertising's information value. Now that the information function of most advertising is obsolete, the FTC should renew its campaign against persuasive advertising by treating all advertising beyond the minimum required to ensure that product information is available to online searchers as monopolization in violation of section 2 of the Sherman Act."


Funnily enough, I thought exactly the same when reading the parent post ! Grateful to be in such well-spoken company :)


https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

This makes the argument that the need to convey product information is now fully accomplished by search engines, and advertising only adds harm / manipulation.


Jon Ronson wrote an entertaining book on the subject (https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/So_You_ve_Been_Public...).

It recounts several examples of internet self-righteous mobs lynching people for minor and larger offences.

In particular, one conclusion of the book is that aggressively not making amends for bad behaviour, even raising the bar for offensiveness, is the optimal survival strategy. See Trump ...


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