Hacker News: Empirical135https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Empirical135Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:14:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Empirical135 in "They See Your Photos"]]>That makes sense and is a fair point. And maybe the guesses from the picture would be more revealing if they had my purchase history as context. But I wanted to make the point that the last 10 web pages that I visited would probably allow you to make much more accurate predictions about me that would partly contradict the guesses the model made.

]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:06:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752185Empirical135https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752185https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752185<![CDATA[New comment by Empirical135 in "They See Your Photos"]]>Felt quite off for me: Wrong salary guess, wrong food preferences, wrong political affiliation, partially correct hobbies, wrong ad targeting ideas. What was surprisingly accurate: location and the fact that I (an academic male in his thirties photographed close to the mountains) might like hiking and coffee.

If you knew which bike model I was googling yesterday, almost all of these guesses might have been more accurate.

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