Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

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ks2048•about 3 hours ago

This seems to be based on Google's QuickDraw datasets. 50 million samples are available in an open dataset,

https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset

totetsu•38 minutes ago

I remember is 2017 closer to the original release of the quick draw data set, there was some analysis of which way circles tended to be drawn in different counties. https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/way-you-...

mncharity•about 1 hour ago

> To build the dataset, we keep only sketches that have been recognized by the neural network in the QuickDraw game. To prevent imbalance from overly represented countries (e.g., the US), we down-sample the data by focusing on the 100 most prominent countries and capping the number of drawings per category–country pair at 10,000. [p19]

ggm•about 2 hours ago

There's a story in Rhodes' book on the atom bomb of Otto Frisch & Liese Mettner discussing the ideation of nuclear fission analogised to cell fission, drawn as a dumbbell viewed head on with the neck of the split a circle inside the bigger cell circle:, where we classically see two cells splitting side by side with a channel between them: she meant exactly the same thing viewed 90° rotated.

zyralab•about 2 hours ago

Sounds like a lot of sketches.

Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

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