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Just to echo this a bit, I spent 3 years working on image similarity tech and a lot of our research was challenging, not because of the intrinsic complexity of
by richmarr 11y ago
Just to echo this a bit, I spent 3 years working on image similarity tech and a lot of our research was challenging, not because of the intrinsic complexity of the problem, but because we had to implement it in such a way as to step around existing patents.
- wjnc 11y agoI guess you found the math combined with the search for alternative routes interesting? But did you also try to find prior art? My first thought would be that for unreasonably broad patents prior art is the easiest way to be able to use the tech?
- richmarr 11y agoI wouldn't say the patents we hit were broad. In some cases we thought they were fairly obvious, but that's much more subjective. We didn't chase prior art, mainly because none of the barriers were unavoidable and we wanted to keep momentum on the build. I only had one foot in the algo camp to be honest. My main task was making the query engine scale.