Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? 117
Zothecula writes "Whether it's fashion, a favorite football team, or a certain kind of music, humans seem to enjoy being considered part of a larger group, and often self-identify as such. With this in mind, students from the University of California, San Diego Jacobs school of Engineering are currently developing a computer algorithm that can deduce from an image whether you're a goth, surfer, hipster, or biker."
Your Personalized Result Here: (Score:3, Funny)
Urban Tribe: Neckbeard
This just in (Score:5, Funny)
I sent the tribe an e-mail stating, "Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any tribe that will accept people like me as a member".
100% success rate so far (Score:2, Funny)
Right now, it's correctly indentified every one of the students who sat down in front of it as "overweight nerd"
Re:Oh, goodie. (Score:5, Funny)
Is the world of Minority Report just around the corner?
We knew you were going to say that.
Don't understand my result (Score:4, Funny)
Urban Tribe? (Score:2, Funny)
Someone has too much time on their hands.
I tried it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't understand my result (Score:0, Funny)
Sounds like you get no respect.
Re:This just in (Score:4, Funny)
Your English teacher called. She wants me to tell you that "wan'ts" isn't a word.
Why a four-year-old child could understand that post. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it.
Re:Never understood this (Score:5, Funny)
Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals!
The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!
Brian: You're all different!
The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!
Man in crowd: I'm not...
Wait a minute. (Score:4, Funny)
Those aren't the Urban Tribes I learned in history class. Aren't they supposed to be Collina, Esquilina, Palatina and Suburana? [wikipedia.org]