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Manual data entry. There is no such algorithm that can do it.
by Jasper_ 7y ago
Manual data entry. There is no such algorithm that can do it.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoThere is also no such algorithm that can try so hard to be "clever": most fuzzy matches will present their uncertainty, human input is assumed to be certain. The umpteen times some clerk "identified" me as someone who used a similar name (of different location, different position and ACLs, even different gender) were decidedly not entertaining.
- svnpenn 7y agoYou can do it with AI https://youtube.com/watch?v=gQddtTdmG_8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=gQddtTdmG_8
- Jasper_ 7y agoThe problem is that you're using names as a proxy to ask whether two people are the same. If I ask you: "in this film, are Will Smith and Will Smith the same", you do not have enough information to answer, because there are at least 74 Will Smith's on record in film credits: https://www.imdb.com/find?q=will%20smith&s=nm&exact=true https://www.imdb.com/find?q=will%20smith&s=nm&exact=true And this is from an industry with guilds and unions to try to ensure that no two credits have the same written name. You can make a very good guess, but names can't tell you enough to determine if these two people are the same or different. One person can have many names, and many people can have the same name.
- krferriter 7y agoWe should like, give tax breaks or pay people based on how nationally-unique they name their child. Should be an easy system to implement. Some like inverse log or inverse root of the frequency of the name within the existing population.