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Even without seeing the result, it was entirely predictable what was going to happen when someone let a computer generate phrases from word lists. The guy who
by rootusrootus 6y ago
Even without seeing the result, it was entirely predictable what was going to happen when someone let a computer generate phrases from word lists. The guy who went out of business generated 700 different combos algorithmically and then did not proofread them. That seems absurd. 700 isn't really that many, a few hours of manual labor to cull the bad ones, and his business may have made money.
- schoen 6y agoI think other people have made money successfully with the few hours of manual labor version. At least, I think I've seen their customized products continue to exist and be available...
- fzzzy 6y agoWhere did you get the number 700? The article says they had 22 million shirts
- dorkwood 6y agoFrom the article: "In the end, he generated about 700 variations of the phrase on t-shirts, and put them up on Amazon."
- crtasm 6y ago700 "Keep Calm and ___" shirts, they also generated 22 million "___ a ___ who ___ and __ " style ones for their catalog and listed 550k of them on Amazon.
- rootusrootus 6y agoAll of the examples shown in the article were of the "keep calm and ___" variety. With 550K more in the catalog, I imagine there were plenty of wild ones.
- tornato7 6y agoWith four options he may have only had to check a few hundred words. 68^4 ~= 22 million