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Sometimes spurious usage of machine learning is "cute" and can be massaged by its implementer to come across as a valid instance of more art than science. Other
by languagehacker 9y ago
Sometimes spurious usage of machine learning is "cute" and can be massaged by its implementer to come across as a valid instance of more art than science. Other times, it manages to let people who want to play with off-the-shelf libraries muddy the waters of what really comprises a quite difficult specialization. Other times still, it helps to reinforce some of the more atrocious biases of its source material and hold up another needless mirror to the uglier sides of humanity that no one is ignorant of.
Your project has managed to both. Well done. Have you heard about this really cool game called Cards Against Humanity?
- revalo 9y agoUsername checks out ;) We had three main intentions with this project, two of them which you've mentioned. This was a hackathon project, and we decided not to go the generic route of what usually wins at such events. We wanted to have fun, and enjoy the process of creation. We ended up insulting our judges, and came last place :)
- asadlionpk 9y agoThat only shows how bad the judges were. Kudos!
- RepressedEmu 9y agoThats hilarious! The last hackathon I was in went similarly: we built an ML-powered sign language app and lost to something a team copied from an Instructable lol
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Sometimes [...]. Other times, [...]. Other times, [...]. > Your project has managed to both. Which two? Or did you mean, “all three” rather than “both”?