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user-inactivated  ·  3778 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Shortest Path to Happiness: Recommending Beautiful, Quiet, and Happy Routes in the City

Coding up a heuristic for things like "beauty" is hard. Training a classifier for beautiful images given enough images labeled beautiful or not would be relatively easy, but flickr tags are easier, and flickr tags worked out just as well for them in Boston as their crowdsourced voting in London.





b_b  ·  3778 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah. Tagging's probably a great idea (cough, mk, cough). I only read the abstract, so I didn't get into the nitty gritty of the work.