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Get rid of the headphones and try again

by minionslave 11y ago

sarciszewski 11y ago
At the time that picture was taken, I didn't own speakers. Now, I look even worse and don't own a working webcam.
- throwaway34382 11y ago
  How can you look even worse? That picture is terrible, a 1 or a 2 out of 10. Anyway here's a plan for you: Plan A) if you have any amount of disposible income (more than $0): - spend 15 minutes reading about beginning to lift weights if you've never lifted a weight in your life - go to the gym once (ever) i.e. on a day pass. This plan I've listed takes 90 minutes if you start right now - as in 90 minutes from now you can be back home - and is 97% of what it takes to spend 20 minutes in a gym once or twice per week. if you've found a gym in your area and have tried it out, you're 97% of the way there. For a man, it takes basically no time whatsoever to become fit, it's literally a matter of reading about it and going there, figuring out that gyms exist. In terms of time commitment it is basically zero - in fact, because you have more energy and get things done when you're back, it's negative time commitment. You have more time in your life if you go to the gym than if you don't. Try it out and then sign up if it works. you can be back home within two hours. Plan B) since you mention not owning speakers and not owning a working webcam, perhaps you have $0 disposible income. - In this case begin each day with a gradually increasing number of pushups, situps, and you can do these kind of dips - https://www.google.com/search?q=chair+dip https://www.google.com/search?q=chair+dip (I've listed three exercises.) Just make it part of your day. You won't become very buff, because all of the mentioned exercises have high mechanical advantage: the reason plan A mentions the gym is because you won't find heavy weights at home and shouldn't bother trying. Home exercises aren't great. they'll get you into basic form though. Like plan A, plan B also takes negative time (you have more time in the day - because you'll be pumped and ready to get things done - than if you didn't do it), and in terms of wall time takes maybe 90 seconds. Do it right when you wake up. Finally, if you ever have 4 weeks where you can look scruffy and homeless, as a project you can grow a beard (simply stop shaving, and see what happens after 4 weeks), and then go to a proper barber shop to have them trim and style it for you, tell them you're good with any style and have grown a beard for the first time ever, that they should pick one for you. This will add +3 points to your look (out of 10). Don't try to pick your own style, discuss it with the barber, and those four weeks are pretty brutal, you won't like it, but there's no way to know what if any kind of facial hair you can have. Not shaving every morning takes an additional -3 minutes of your life, and this time both in wall time and projects. Going to the barber takes 30 minutes, so the net time commitment is -3 minutes times 21 days = -63 minutes and 30 minutes to find and go to a barber for their styling shave. so this, too, takes a negative amount of time. the only people who aren't able to accept negative time for free are those who have passed away and are no longer with us. live while you can.
MrQuincle 11y ago
Of course I tried a bunch of pictures of myself, just as everybody at HN is doing, ha ha! I didn't get above the nice level. First picture of my wife she immediately got the godlike level. Unfair advantage!! "Before performing any experiments we removed underage people, anyone over 37 and bi- and homosexual users as these comprise only a small minority of the dataset." That's already biasing it of course! "Interestingly, 44.81% of the male ratings are positive, while only 8.58% of the female ratings are positive. Due to this strong bias of ratings by women, we only predict the ratings of men." So, the algorithm learns to rate me as a heterosexual man? From: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07867v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07867v1.pdf
- timofter 11y ago
  Yes, this was the data we worked with for attractiveness modeling. The algorithm learns from millions of ratings from males to females and from females to males, all heterosexuals. No underage or above 37 years old, and mostly people from Zurich area, Switzerland. For age and gender prediction we use more and diverse data. I am Radu Timofte, one of the authors.
  - MrQuincle 11y ago
    What did you mean about the bias of the rating by women? Is it possible that quite a few men rate every women high irrespective of looks? Or are women just more picky? Why is it called biased?
    - timofter 11y ago
      The ratings are "like" (positive) and "dislike" (negative). If men have ratings close to uniform distribution (44.81% are "like" ratings, 55.19% are "dislike"), women with only 8.58% "like" ratings are clearly unbalanced, or if you want the women are "very picky". We call this a strong bias in the ratings of women while for men there is a small(er) bias and this only to point out the difference from the uniform distribution (50%-50%). We can not tell and we are not the ones to judge if the men are voting randomly or are less picky or if the women are right or more picky, since the attractiveness is subjective and we do not have an ultimate ground truth to compare with. We can not say if the attractiveness should follow a particular distribution, we work empirically. In our study, the ratings of men tend to agree more and correlate more with our visual representation based on the face image (looks). We removed from our data the extreme cases such as users with less than 10 ratings or with too many ratings.
dghughes 11y ago
It's a comb-over you insensitive bastard!

Get rid of the headphones and try again

sarciszewski 11y ago

At the time that picture was taken, I didn't own speakers. Now, I look even worse and don't own a working webcam.

throwaway34382 11y ago
How can you look even worse? That picture is terrible, a 1 or a 2 out of 10. Anyway here's a plan for you: Plan A) if you have any amount of disposible income (more than $0): - spend 15 minutes reading about beginning to lift weights if you've never lifted a weight in your life - go to the gym once (ever) i.e. on a day pass. This plan I've listed takes 90 minutes if you start right now - as in 90 minutes from now you can be back home - and is 97% of what it takes to spend 20 minutes in a gym once or twice per week. if you've found a gym in your area and have tried it out, you're 97% of the way there. For a man, it takes basically no time whatsoever to become fit, it's literally a matter of reading about it and going there, figuring out that gyms exist. In terms of time commitment it is basically zero - in fact, because you have more energy and get things done when you're back, it's negative time commitment. You have more time in your life if you go to the gym than if you don't. Try it out and then sign up if it works. you can be back home within two hours. Plan B) since you mention not owning speakers and not owning a working webcam, perhaps you have $0 disposible income. - In this case begin each day with a gradually increasing number of pushups, situps, and you can do these kind of dips - https://www.google.com/search?q=chair+dip https://www.google.com/search?q=chair+dip (I've listed three exercises.) Just make it part of your day. You won't become very buff, because all of the mentioned exercises have high mechanical advantage: the reason plan A mentions the gym is because you won't find heavy weights at home and shouldn't bother trying. Home exercises aren't great. they'll get you into basic form though. Like plan A, plan B also takes negative time (you have more time in the day - because you'll be pumped and ready to get things done - than if you didn't do it), and in terms of wall time takes maybe 90 seconds. Do it right when you wake up. Finally, if you ever have 4 weeks where you can look scruffy and homeless, as a project you can grow a beard (simply stop shaving, and see what happens after 4 weeks), and then go to a proper barber shop to have them trim and style it for you, tell them you're good with any style and have grown a beard for the first time ever, that they should pick one for you. This will add +3 points to your look (out of 10). Don't try to pick your own style, discuss it with the barber, and those four weeks are pretty brutal, you won't like it, but there's no way to know what if any kind of facial hair you can have. Not shaving every morning takes an additional -3 minutes of your life, and this time both in wall time and projects. Going to the barber takes 30 minutes, so the net time commitment is -3 minutes times 21 days = -63 minutes and 30 minutes to find and go to a barber for their styling shave. so this, too, takes a negative amount of time. the only people who aren't able to accept negative time for free are those who have passed away and are no longer with us. live while you can.

MrQuincle 11y ago

Of course I tried a bunch of pictures of myself, just as everybody at HN is doing, ha ha! I didn't get above the nice level. First picture of my wife she immediately got the godlike level. Unfair advantage!! "Before performing any experiments we removed underage people, anyone over 37 and bi- and homosexual users as these comprise only a small minority of the dataset." That's already biasing it of course! "Interestingly, 44.81% of the male ratings are positive, while only 8.58% of the female ratings are positive. Due to this strong bias of ratings by women, we only predict the ratings of men." So, the algorithm learns to rate me as a heterosexual man? From: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07867v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07867v1.pdf

timofter 11y ago
Yes, this was the data we worked with for attractiveness modeling. The algorithm learns from millions of ratings from males to females and from females to males, all heterosexuals. No underage or above 37 years old, and mostly people from Zurich area, Switzerland. For age and gender prediction we use more and diverse data. I am Radu Timofte, one of the authors.
- MrQuincle 11y ago
  What did you mean about the bias of the rating by women? Is it possible that quite a few men rate every women high irrespective of looks? Or are women just more picky? Why is it called biased?
  - timofter 11y ago
    The ratings are "like" (positive) and "dislike" (negative). If men have ratings close to uniform distribution (44.81% are "like" ratings, 55.19% are "dislike"), women with only 8.58% "like" ratings are clearly unbalanced, or if you want the women are "very picky". We call this a strong bias in the ratings of women while for men there is a small(er) bias and this only to point out the difference from the uniform distribution (50%-50%). We can not tell and we are not the ones to judge if the men are voting randomly or are less picky or if the women are right or more picky, since the attractiveness is subjective and we do not have an ultimate ground truth to compare with. We can not say if the attractiveness should follow a particular distribution, we work empirically. In our study, the ratings of men tend to agree more and correlate more with our visual representation based on the face image (looks). We removed from our data the extreme cases such as users with less than 10 ratings or with too many ratings.

dghughes 11y ago

It's a comb-over you insensitive bastard!