{"id":3074,"date":"2005-01-11T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/11\/face-analyzer\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:28:20","slug":"face-analyzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/11\/face-analyzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Analyzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9253,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/01\\\/face_analyzer.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050827033607\\\/http:\\\/\\\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com:80\\\/blog\\\/2005\\\/01\\\/face_analyzer.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 18:44:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 21:22:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 21:22:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9254,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.faceanalyzer.com\\\/default.aspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080913214700\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.faceanalyzer.com:80\\\/default.aspx&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 18:44:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 21:22:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 21:22:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/face_analyzer.html\" title=\"Face Analyzer\">Jacqueline pointed out<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceanalyzer.com\/default.aspx\" title=\"FACEANALYZER\">Face Analyzer<\/a>, an automated online tool where you upload a photograph and it process the photo to determine everything from your nationality to your personality. This struck me as worth killing a few minutes playing with, so I grabbed a recent headshot of me from when I got my new glasses, and sent it in. The results were something of a surprise:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/01\/graphics\/faceanalyzer-1.jpg\" title=\"100% SE Asian, Female\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/01\/graphics\/faceanalyzer-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"183\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"100% SE Asian, Female\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>100% South East Asian &#8212; and female.<\/p>\n<p>I never knew. You&#8217;d think that my folks would have clued me in about this at some point in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Undaunted, I cropped the photo down a bit so that there was less background, wondering if giving the system less background junk would help it concentrate on my face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/01\/graphics\/faceanalyzer-2.jpg\" title=\"100% SE Asian, Male\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/01\/graphics\/faceanalyzer-2-tm.jpg\" height=\"183\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"100% SE Asian, Male\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it at least got the sex right that time. I&#8217;m really curious as to how it&#8217;s coming up with the nationality, though &#8212; to most people (who, admittedly, aren&#8217;t automated software systems [or if they are, I haven&#8217;t figured it out yet]), the red hair and pale-to-the-point-of-translucence skin tends to indicate northern European ancestry, typically either Irish, Scottish, or possibly the general Scandinavian areas.<\/p>\n<p>I guess they&#8217;re all wrong. South East Asian it is. After all, if you can&#8217;t believe what you read on the &#8216;net, what <em>can<\/em> you believe?<\/p>\n<p>The personality profile section was just as silly, and just as accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline pointed out the Face Analyzer. This struck me as worth killing a few minutes playing with, so I grabbed a recent headshot of me from when I got my new glasses, and sent it in. The results were something of a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[58,39,65],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-internet","tag-links","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}