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My field is bioinformatics. I’m willing to bet $500 there’s little to no valuable data being gathered at all, and quite a lot of noise, rather than anything relevant for your health. I’m sure, just like your smart watch, they can make it sound like some deep insights and health exploration, but I guarantee you it’s not.

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You’re telling me there’s zero valuable information in photos of feces? What about this?

https://img.lb.wbmdstatic.com/vim/live/webmd/consumer_assets/site_images/article_thumbnails/BigBead/what_kind_of_poop_do_i_have_bigbead/650x1150_what_kind_of_poop_do_i_have_bigbead.jpg

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- kadup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  You’re telling me there’s zero valuable information in photos of feces?
  
  Nope. I’m saying a private company and whatever training set they have, plus a cheap RGB camera and an AI model, is not going to give you any information that you can’t derive by simply looking at the feces yourself, much like the table you just linked. Though that table itself is an oversimplification that, being unable to take other parameters into account, also contains potentially misleading conclusions.
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    
    is not going to give you any information that you can’t derive by simply looking at the feces yourself
    
    Yes and you don’t have to hire a plumber to fix your sink if you’re a plumber.
    
    The point is:
    1. Professional analysis
    2. (more importantly) Automated logging (no pun intended), potentially for human medical review periodically, or at a later date.
    
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