datawander

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1. 31.▲
   by datawander 13y ago

   I stand corrected and wasn't aware of the multidigit claim.
2. 32.▲
   by datawander 13y ago

   Awesome to hear from you! Good points and I believe you're right on all of them. I thought there was more to it because the headline made me think that the general problem of taking a random StreetView location and finding the addresse
3. 33.▲
   by datawander 13y ago

   Even if the author is correct in that Google's ranking algorithm for HackerNews will be affected by just 24 hours of downtime, wouldn't the algorithm update itself back to normal over the next 24 hours?
4. 34.▲
   by datawander 13y ago

   Like the "youtube cats" paper that only has 16% rate of success (which represented a huge improvement), this doesn't appear to be anything beyond what has already been done for text recognition, which is usually one of the fi
5. 35.▲
   by datawander 13y ago

   Great article! It reminds me of a beautiful excerpt I recently discovered that might make you feel better about all your unfinished projects: Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is ro