時尚雙語:看看你的明星相
According to , everyone has a little celebrity(1) inside. Largely meant for charting family trees(2) and as a genealogy(3) community, the Web site also boasts an addictive(4) face recognition technology that blurs(5) the boundary between the great unwashed(6) and the thoroughly groomed(7).
To find out which celebrity you most resemble(8), download a photo of yourself, and you'll quickly receive a list of stars with similar facial features. The results, which can include men and women, are often surprising.
In one trial, a white, goateed(9), middle-aged man came up as most resembling the young black comedian Chris Tucker — and onlookers(10) exclaimed, "You know, I can see that."
The Israel-based site uses algorithms(11) to compare faces. From a database of 3,200 celebs, ten ranked results are provided, which can be quite disparate(12).
This writer's famous twins included the comedian Ben Stiller, the economist John Maynard Keynes and the painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Which makes sense, since many of my friends think of me as a comedic (if womanly) painter, with a strong penchant(13) for governmental interventionist(14) fiscal policy(15).
Whatever our differences, though, MyHeritage suggests we at least share some superficial(16) similarities. The lesson, as always, is that machines know us better than ourselves.
In this way, MyHeritage resembles the music Web site , which functions as a personal DJ. Pandora can lead a listener to music they might not know, but are predisposed to(17) like.
On Pandora, you plug in a band or artist — for example, Beck. After listening to his "Fourteen Rivers," Pandora next cues up Jackson C. Frank's "(Tumble) in the Wind," and continues with songs by the Microphones, Iron & Wine and Travis.
And if Beck sounds like Travis, then I might as well look like Georgia O'Keeffe.
根據網站，每個人都多多少少有些明星相。之前主要幫助網民繪製家譜，是一個宗譜社區，現在推出了一項有趣的面部鑑定服務，模糊了平民百姓和明星大腕之間的界限。
爲了找到和你相似的明星，你需要向網站發送一張自己的照片，很快你就能收到一張和你長相相似的明星列表。結果通常會令你震驚，裏面也許有男有女。
在一次嘗試中，一位白皮膚、山羊鬍子的中年男子的對比結果竟然是年輕的黑人喜劇演員克里斯·塔克。旁觀者們驚呼：“你知道麼，我覺得你們挺像的。”
這家以色列網站利用計算程序對比臉部特徵。它會從3200個風格迥異的名人中爲你挑出前10名最相似的。
與本文作者最爲相似的明星有喜劇演員本·斯蒂勒、經濟學家約翰·梅納德·凱恩斯和畫家喬治婭·歐基夫。這樣的結果也不無道理，因爲我的很多朋友都認爲我是有女性氣質的幽默畫家，同時又有強烈的財政政策政府幹涉主義傾向。
無論我們有多麼不同，MyHeritage說我們總還是有一些相似的。通常機器比我們自身更加了解自己。
這樣說來，MyHeritage和音樂網站很相似。Pandora就好像私人DJ，爲聽衆選擇可能陌生但多半會喜歡的音樂。
你可以輸入一個樂隊或者藝術家的名字，例如貝克。聽完他的《十四條河》，Pandora會爲你播放傑克遜·C·弗蘭克的《風中翻騰》，之後是麥克風、鐵與酒和崔維斯樂隊的歌曲。
如果貝克聽上去的確很像崔維斯，那麼我長得也的確像喬治婭·歐基夫。
