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THEJOURNAL.IE and our sister/brother sports site TheScore.ie won a total of three awards at two web awards ceremonies last night.
TheJournal.ie won Best Mobile App at the eircom Spiders awards in Dublin’s Convention Centre and Best Web-Only Publication at the Irish Web Awards just across the river at the Mansion House. TheScore.ie was announced Ireland’s Best Sports Site at the Irish Web Awards.
We were, naturally, chuffed:
And so were you:
So thanks for that!
There were reports of some serious celebrations emanating from both sides of the Liffey with MC Des Bishop providing the LOLs at the Spiders. He also told us that he uses TheJournal.ie app all of the time which had us doing this. Meanwhile, this happened at the Web Awards.
Other winners at the eircom Spider awards included CoderDojo founder and all-round inspiration, 20-year-old James Whelton, who won the Internet Hero award. He had previously won a junior Spider award and his not-for-profit computer coding clubs for children are now establishing branches as far afield as China.
These were the other winners:
Our friends at Boards.ie also took Best Discussion Forum at the Irish Web Awards. These were the rest of the winners on the night:
Meanwhile, we hear that TheScore.ie team has gotten itself into another title battle. Keep an eye on their Twitter account over the next while to see how that works itself out…
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I’m waiting for Irish people to be tagged as ghosts
Funniest headline I’ve read in ages!
Google need to stop monkeying around.
The algorrillm needs some fine tuning.
Is it caus they black?
It’s a bit like when Nikon brought out their blink detection software years ago. It asks “did someone blink?” I noticed it myself on my L100 and it worked fine. The problem arose when pictures of Asians were mistaken as someone blinking, even though they were not.
Since Nikon is an Asian company, one wonders what sort of quality control they had on that one.
What kind of ape wrote that program.
That’s fierce funny altogether.
Light relief from the Greece crisis.
Can’t foresee a Terminator situation any time soon
I’ll be black.
For anyone thinking this is a person in google tagging black people as gorillas: http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html
Check your algorithmic privilege.
Mortifying.
ilikegrasss
Seems like they have a racist/s in Google
I don’t think computers can be racist. They’re aren’t that advanced in AI yet.
Nor are they so advanced in recruitment…
This is an AI issue, not a human issue.
Perhaps if it wasn’t a human issue it wouldn’t have been an AI issue.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2014/05/29/2-of-google-employees-are-black-and-just-30-are-women/
So it’s not the fault of the person who programed the AI(long way off real AI) who is at fault?
Black people don’t look anything like Gorillas . If it can tell the difference between a Leopard and a Jaguar then it should be able to tel the difference between a person and an Ape.
Don’t see how labeling a black person as a Gorilla is racist..sure aren’t we all as equally related to the gorilla?
After that handsome gorilla the other day I;d say many of us would take kindly to being more gorilla-like :)
Well said Fozz. Sure Gareth Bale is the absolute spit of a gorilla. He gets fierce abuse for it. And I have yet to hear anyone call it a racist insult.
@Paul Roche
Maybe white and Asian males are just better at this kind of work.
Do you think a negroe programmer would have missed this?
You’re supposed to say “black”.
Perhaps, but I intended to write “negro”, the “e” hung around after an unsuccessful edit of an original plural… Maybe it should look for job on Google…
Looks nifty, can I download from the ApeStore?
There is a simple solution to that issue. It would involve swapping two words. Although I think gorillas would not like to be named humans. Just imagine what animal rights activists would say.
Think how clever you have to be to screw up on this level.
How do you test every possible scenario for photograph classification? I’ve been fooled by more than one elbow, myself.
Facial recognition insists in asian
Well then, I think it’s time for me to get a software update too. I honestly had to do a double take.
All aboard the lets get offended at anything band wagon.
‘Get machetes to think more like the way people do’ (quote) . Keep digging !
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