Isn't all scientific endeavour "very inefficient machine learning algorithms"?

"recreational scientific activity"

Or very efficient

Depending on the actual goal of having people submit all their information for entertainment purposes

Yeah , i mean they have advertising, and people are interested in it. My wife wanted to get one and i was like WIFE, we know where you come from. Your dad was born in Mexico and your mom has some spanish roots. I aint payin any money for this garbage. For all we know they just have some empirical machine learning model they came up with. Or for the public, groundbreaking AI techniques to trace your roots with pinpoint accuracy all for one low fee

I assumed the all-caps "WIFE" was a stand-in for the actual person's name, which the poster did not want to reveal.

Given the quote, I assume otherwise.

I have a rule of thumb about text on the internet: "Always assume the best possible tone (or interpretation) of text you read, and the worst possible for text you write."

Well most of the entertainment is finding out you didnt know where you come from

And new relatives