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by amyjess 3903 days ago
> Are you implying the .co.uk version did not have the same "design elements"?

Classifiers do weird things, and features you don't expect to be significant can suddenly have a much larger than intended effect. The domain name, as a feature, must've thrown it over the edge.

It's like that Google+ post where a picture of a couple of black people got tagged as "gorillas" by their auto-tagging ML system. No, Google isn't racist, their classifier just hates their PR department.

Ah, the joys of machine learning...