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> This is not interesting at all because... Comments like this make me reluctant to post things I work on

• mikekchar 9y ago
  The OP's comment is very good because the discussion in the article is quite misleading about what they accomplished. It's also apparently self-serving; apparently marketing material for Wolfram. As your sibling's post makes extremely clear, classifying handwritten text from the Edo period is a much, much, much more difficult problem. In fact the samples they have taken for training are so unstylized that they might just as well have done an article about recognising modern hiragana hand writing. That would be very cool too, but would have gathered no interest because it is a well solved problem. I have no problem with people doing fun projects and explaining how they did them. I have a bit of a problem with people apparently making exaggerated claims about their product's capabilities.
  • greeneggs 9y ago
    > I have no problem with people doing fun projects and explaining how they did them. I have a bit of a problem with people apparently making exaggerated claims about their product's capabilities. This isn't written by a Wolfram employee. It seems to be just someone's fun and educational project, posted on a Wolfram message board.
• fenomas 9y ago
  I think the article is more mistitled than anything else. I mean, it's a fine article for someone interested in how to train a classifier on an annotated dataset in Mathematica. It's just not very interesting for someone interested in how to classify Japanese characters from the Edo period.