sergefaguet

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by sergefaguet 9y ago
thank you! passing to the ML team!
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
we'll make it better. matter of time + data. right now it works for some people, but not for others – just tough to get really good results because of how complex human facial perception is. thanks for your feedback!
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
we initially let people do that, but they started uploading much worse photos, group photos etc. – the selfies help consistency. glad you liked it :)
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
really glad to hear!!! hoping we can get everyone to have this experience :) thanks for giving us a try! if at some point you have other feedback pls let us know.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
thanks for your feedback – we know it doesn't work for some people and are working to make it better. we'll get there :) regarding profanity – thinking how to both let people who want to use it use it (as many do) while not annoyi
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
i don't think it is merely speed though, it is simplicity too. i hear you about character creation screens, but there are hardcore gamers and there are casual gamers. the latter are far more prevalent. and i say this as someone who lo
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
thanks for sharing! i wonder if there are just different demographics here where some people want to customize while others don't. i remember that at our hotel booking company, only 10-15% of people used any filters/sorts for hote
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
AI that knows how you want to be seen => VR avatar and personalized advertising applications. lots of other ideas, but no sense in thinking too much about them so early.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
yes – there is an iMessage app included! can you try setting it up and let us know about the experience? i found iMessage to be confusing from time to time so want to make sure nothing wrong there...
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
huh. this definitely shouldn't be happening. does it replicate every time? any chance you can try a couple times and post the exact time you are doing this? will try to hunt down where it went wrong. thanks for testing
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
agreed re scope of error – this is the key challenge given the complexity of face perception. this is a beta, we will improve quickly.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
we don't want that. we think there's a big business model/opportunity related to being the best in the world at understanding how humans perceive their own faces and the faces of others. also i'm very fortunate in that i
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
in the short-term, people are very willing to pay for gift/status-boosting content related to faces and identity. plus stickers. LINE is a $10bn public company basically off of selling stickers. this has very high margins combined with
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
hmm, obvious mistake. will fix.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
thanks for the feedback! yep, we are planning to add exactly the tweaks you mentioned. plus eye color. will do this soon :)
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
they aren't in Russia, they are in AWS :) if we kept it in Russia latency would suck + we'd have to comply with local regulations we don't want to deal with.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
yeah – it's definitely not perfect. we are quickly making it better. in particular beards are very limited because there are no good existing datasets/trained networks for them, so we have to do everything ourselves. thanks for me
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
if you mean about the word "emoji" it is more to pick up traffic from people searching for emoji keyboards and the like. if you mean in general, right now we are focused on building a great, highly engaging product that people enj
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
thank you! really appreciated :)
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
awesome :) really happy to hear this!!
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
not quite. let me point several things out: - bitmoji takes a long time and a lot of mental effort to set up. i have no idea what my face shape is and had to ask my ex-gf whether my eyes are green or brown. - with bitmoji you cannot add oth
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
oh and just to be clear – the reason it is a keyboard is that people are really used to having emoji in their keyboard. this is how bitmoji and other manual-custom-emoji products work too.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
we don't log your messages – in theory keyboard developers could do this, but Apple would wipe the floor with us if we did. we do plan to have a bag-of-words RNN that runs locally on the device to suggest emoji to you depending on cont
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
hey! let me illustrate with an (oversimplified) example: – we tweak eyes to be larger-than-real and observe the reaction by letting users pick from several options or just observing usage frequency. that way we find the optimal point and th
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
no. a more accurate description is definitely "stickers." but everyone knows and searches "emoji" much more. this is more of a marketing naming decision, i agree that it isn't accurate.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
ugh. thanks for telling about this. we don't detect the gender of kids too well, but we do detect age and should just turn off the more explicit stickers. thank you, very useful. and sorry you had that experience.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
yeah we get it – it gets good results for some people, but by no means all. thanks for the feedback, we will make it better!
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
yeah we decided against that because it would interfere with sharing frequency – people are much more willing to share images than voice/video. plus animation makes content volumes much harder to scale.
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
thanks for finding this, we'll fix it!
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by sergefaguet 9y ago
vanity... definitely my favorite sin :) it does tap into a lot of human emotions. one of the reasons we decided to pursue this area.

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