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Relevant XKCD [1]. It's the one about identifying birds. https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/

• bastijn 9y ago
  The proof that even XKCD can go out of date. Now (soon) we just call a google image API :).
  • nighthawk454 9y ago
    Arguably, it's still relevant. It took about 5 years for suitable image recognition apis to come out. Although Flickr tried to get it done in about a month: http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or-bird/ http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or...
    • bastijn 9y ago
      When the API becomes common practice the xkcd is no longer relevant, yet it was correct (at time of writing). Unless educating on the difficulties of the past of course, then it would be relevant.
    • matte_black 9y ago
      I could have done it in a weekend with Mechanical Turk.