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Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

51 pointsby Anon84last Thursday at 5:44 PM5 commentsview on HN

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ks2048yesterday at 11:24 PM

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

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ggmtoday at 12:25 AM

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.

zyralabyesterday at 11:40 PM

Sounds like a lot of sketches.