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Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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Sefik Ilkin Serengil's personal blog at sefiks.com covers ai, data and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The linked posts cover face recognition with Python, including the DeepFace library. The one comment debates race estimation from faces, citing DeepFace's use of the FairFace training data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
> It's totally possible to estimate ... race from a face. It's possible to estimate people into groups of stereotypes as determined by the people who created the models. But race/ethnicity? How can one do that when there is no formal taxonomy? Take the DeepFace example of how they are dong this.[0] They use FairFace to train on. FairFace "labels are East Asian, Southeast Asian, Indian, Black, White, Middle-Eastern a…
Comment linking /2019/11/11/race-and-ethnicity-prediction-in-keras/
on “Show HN: DeepFace – A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python”Submitted A Gentle Introduction to Cypher Queries in Neo4j as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Large Scale Face Recognition with DeepFace and Pinecone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculating Percentage-Based Confidence from Similarities of Embedding Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Vector Similarity Computation with Partially Homomorphic Encryption as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: DeepFace now supports DB-backed vector search for face recognition as a story · 1 points
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