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This is not a slight towards the OP, I’m just opening up for discussion. I think this is a great example of how we tend to default to algorithms and automation
by coddle-hark 6y ago
This is not a slight towards the OP, I’m just opening up for discussion.
I think this is a great example of how we tend to default to algorithms and automation even when the problem is better suited to a more manual solution. This is especially problematic when our automated systems don’t allow for transparent human intervention (think ML classifiers etc.). If this page were a curated wiki, for example, it’d probably have had a number of additions / corrections suggested by the community already. People are certainly posting corrections in this very thread, at least.
Maybe the lesson is, use automated data as a seed and let humans iterate on that?
- notatoad 6y agothis website isn't actually naming your baby for you, it's suggesting a list of names using an algorithm. literally the whole point is to generate data for humans to use as a "seed". and it already appears to support community suggestions in addition to the machine-chosen names.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoWhen comes time to name babies, I'll do that cross-listing by hand indeed. But it's still a cool idea and can get you started.
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