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About 9 months ago I wrote a search engine based on Torch, OpenCV, a custom NLP (thanks word2vec) and Elasticsearch to quickly find adult videos based on lingui
by joshumax 9y ago
About 9 months ago I wrote a search engine based on Torch, OpenCV, a custom NLP (thanks word2vec) and Elasticsearch to quickly find adult videos based on linguistic descriptions of graphical content rather than the textual description on a $20 bet. Eventually after demoing it to some people for fun, (to my surprise) I received an acquisition offer a few weeks ago from a certain product search site after it was accidentally discovered that the model could be used to find more relevant products based on their images. Needless to say I was surprised to see this on the front page of HN and wonder how long they've been working on this too!
- burger_moon 9y agoCan you go into any more details on the product you built and the acquisition? It sounds like a pretty unique success story, I'm sure others would like to hear more about it too.
- joshumax 9y agoYeah sure! I'll ask my advisor what I can and can't say and put it up on my blog and submit it to HN