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<body><br><font size="3" style="">"If you use <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">social media</a>, you've probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then-and-now profile pictures</a>, mostly from 10 years ago and this year.<br><br>Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g., how people are likely to look as they get older). Ideally, you'd want a broad and rigorous dataset with lots of people's pictures. It would help if you knew they were taken a fixed number of years apart—say, 10 years....<br><br>In other words, thanks to this meme, there’s now a very large dataset of carefully curated photos of people from roughly 10 years ago and now."<br><br>Read more on: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge/<br><br>Best regards<br><br><br><br></font><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="3">--<br>Grace Githaiga<br>Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network</font></p><br></body></html>