A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
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2 days ago
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dalmo3
40 minutes ago
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AI or not, I liked this bit:

> Averages lie about the tails, and a person who gets a 15 cm bust error doesn’t care that the mean is 4 cm.

A variation of that sentence should be mandatory in every scientific paper.

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woohin
29 minutes ago
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Interesting idea. Using a questionnaire as input for an MLP makes sense but the real challenge is designing questions that capture useful signal instead of noise. If that part is done well, the approach has a lot of potential.
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rgovostes
5 hours ago
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It takes more like 10 seconds. For a large range of height and weight inputs crossed with all option combinations, you could precompute ~10M measurements and return results basically instantly.
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RobotToaster
2 hours ago
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Tangential, but does anyone else keep reading "MLP" as "my little pony".
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aaclark
4 hours ago
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ai;dr

MLP trained on 8 questions achieves ~0.3cm height error, ~0.3kg weight error, and ~3-4cm for bust/waist/hips measurements.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/5/1885 + some hacking => "we want to productize this"

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endofreach
4 hours ago
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> ai;dr

Haven't seen that one yet. I like it.

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faangguyindia
3 hours ago
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It has that kind of feel as if it's made in codex.
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xenonite
4 hours ago
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Well sorry no, because already the torso to leg length ratio is covered by none of their question. (and yes, they list it as a limitation)
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moralestapia
2 hours ago
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This is the best UI/UX article I've read this year. If the authors are around, I extend them my dearest congratulations ^^.
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ggm
3 hours ago
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How big are the pockets and is it sex determined?
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zimpenfish
4 hours ago
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I'm guessing the writing is AI-assisted (there's no fluidity and it has some weirdly placed phrases) but I see they're in Poland and likely not English-language first?
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