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Can you yourself reliably detect if something is a list of SSN's or some other type of identifier? I think you can. Now when we have neural nets capable of dis
by throwawaywego 7y ago
Can you yourself reliably detect if something is a list of SSN's or some other type of identifier?
I think you can. Now when we have neural nets capable of distinguishing 100s of different dog breeds, we still have to trip on the most basic and structured type of entity extraction? No. A simple regex, combined with heuristics, and a linear model on top can reliably detect SSN's.
Just that there will be a few false positives (no matter if you automate this, or do this manually) does not mean it is a Herculean technical challenge to do this.