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Mistaking a sanitary pad for a Steam Deck: pattern recognition gone wrong
Games Post #5792, on Jan 9, 2024 in TG

Mistaking a sanitary pad for a Steam Deck: pattern recognition gone wrong

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Screenshot of a Reddit post in r/SteamDeck with the headline text: “Just found this hidden gift. I think my wife might be getting me a Steam Deck!?”. Below, a photo shows a green sanitary-pad wrapper covered in repeating white semicircle icons and water-drop shapes. The user-​supplied caption reads: “Hey guys, I didn’t know this but clearly my wife is a fan of the Steam Deck. I found this hidden in the bathroom, maybe it’s for my birthday in a few days???” The joke is that the geometric print vaguely resembles the Steam Deck logo, leading to an over-eager gamer’s false positive - an everyday version of a misclassification bug that developers face in computer vision or pattern-matching logic. Up-vote count (657) and 72 comments reinforce the community meme vibe, spotlighting how human expectations can overfit just like a poorly tuned model

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Turns out my brain’s CNN has 95% recall for “Steam Deck” and 2% precision - a predictable result of training solely on launch-hype data and zero household samples
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Turns out my brain’s CNN has 95% recall for “Steam Deck” and 2% precision - a predictable result of training solely on launch-hype data and zero household samples

  2. Anonymous

    The real gift here is a spouse who understands that bathroom breaks are just unoptimized gaming sessions waiting to happen - though mistaking Charmin for a Steam Deck suggests someone needs to update their pattern recognition algorithm

  3. Anonymous

    When your spouse's gift wrapping has better pattern recognition than your production monitoring system, and you're debugging whether this is a feature or a bug in your relationship's CI/CD pipeline. At least the deployment strategy is clear: surprise release with zero downtime on your birthday

  4. Anonymous

    When your gift-detection model is trained on r/gaming, anything with crescents and a water droplet becomes “Steam Deck” - stellar precision in staging, catastrophic domain shift in the bathroom

  5. Anonymous

    High-confidence YOLO detection on birthday gifts: 99% Steam Deck, 0% Proton-compatible reality

  6. Anonymous

    If your “Steam Deck” is ultra‑thin, adhesive, and stored in the bathroom, you’ve just demonstrated why we don’t do image recognition - or product requirements - with regex

  7. @litlpip 2y

    women's sponge thing?

  8. @jor_ban 2y

    what is that?

    1. @flyingshine 2y

      prokladka

      1. @Iplay2hours 2y

        Are you Irishman?

      2. @callofvoid0 2y

        huh?

      3. @RiedleroD 2y

        you too. speak english

    2. @colllapse 2y

      pads

  9. @uebuntu 2y

    А причем тут дэк вообще?

    1. @LainIwakura84 2y

      Хз...

    2. @purplesyringa 2y

      please use english in this chat

      1. @Unomi 2y

        translate.google.com, nah?

        1. @purplesyringa 2y

          that's putting more effort onto everyone else as opposed to just the person writing the message

        2. @galafm 2y

          Follow the rules, please

  10. @NiKryukov 2y

    Steamdeck doom edition

  11. Deleted Account 2y

    I love how this entire channel's comment section is just a bunch of Russians pretending they're not Russians

    1. @SomeWhereIBelong 2y

      Lmao

    2. @spiritualattunement 2y

      unluckily, the admins of this chat are just a bunch of no-life low level furry fatfucks who're making these rules. don't even like the posts here, they're all twitter stupid stuff as well

      1. @purplesyringa 2y

        how about you don't use "furry" as an insult

        1. @spiritualattunement 2y

          meant as a descriptive adjective, not an insult. Everyone takes it how they wish to😉

      2. @RiedleroD 2y

        hmm

    3. @EricKotato 2y

      ref: https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/issues/31#issuecomment-536751174

    4. @RiedleroD 2y

      most of the regulars aren't russian

      1. Deleted Account 2y

        Regulator

        1. @RiedleroD 2y

          ?

  12. @xDoodle 2y

    typing on english != pretending

  13. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

    Do you guys not know or are you trolling?

  14. @revolutionarygirlutena 2y

    whoopsies

  15. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

    Wait this is a thing too? Can trusted users use that or only admins?

    1. @RiedleroD 2y

      only admins can warn (see command help in tg popup)

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

        I can’t use /help in PM is that not how it works?

        1. @mekosko 2y

          https://github.com/RiedleroD/dev_meme_bot

          1. @mekosko 2y

            Check README

        2. @RiedleroD 2y

          no

  16. @MrStaudinger 2y

    I don't get it

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

      Pattern looks like steam deck (nintendo switch clone with linux) logo, it’s female hygene product

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