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It's not. Not even close. It doesn't even have my last name for instance. And that's a western name. Then there's also the following issues: - The list contai
by chmod775 6y ago
It's not. Not even close. It doesn't even have my last name for instance. And that's a western name.
Then there's also the following issues:
- The list contains mostly names in basic latin script, which already excludes most of the world population.
- It's also pretty bold of the author to assume that everyone even has a "first" and a "last" name. Not all names work like that.
- The list contains a bunch of extraneous stuff like "�" and "</pre></body></html> (>\k���� " and "रामकिशो&"
- The list is converted to lowercase. You can't just change the capitalization of names and expect them to be the same. Not all scripts work like that.
- In some languages/cultures a first/last name could be pretty much any word you can find in a dictionary, or a combination of them. You'd pretty much need to add that language's entire dictionary.
I could go on but instead I'll just link to this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
- t0astbread 6y agoYou're right but I don't think staying accurate is all that important in this case. Judging by the "Features" section this seems to be mostly concerned with recognizing names in strings which means you can discard some extra information as long as you can still accurately match names without too many false positives. I can't say anything about exhaustiveness.