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Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by nikanj on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:39AM (#23745862)
If only someone made a version of this answer that was more, let’s say, board-room accessible. So much conflict could be avoided, if engineers were not seen as ”non-believing naysayers” when top brass wants some of that hot new AI
Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by zakember on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:25PM (#23784036)
"I will personally pay $100 to anyone who can make this without a bug and passes every case out there. But if they take up the offer and fail, they have to pay me $1000"
Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by 6510 on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:04PM (#23753319)
A: You have a finite number of strings a > b

B: Each has a finite number of ways of spellings.

A x B is like, a large number. It would take a lot of type writers and there might be new ways of spellings, new desitnations and new places to abandon... ehh I mean leave.

Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by Pinus on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:43AM (#23746464)
Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:47AM (#23748472)
...except that recognizing birds is pretty trivial these days if you let somebody else do the heavy lifting: https://cloud.google.com/vision

Which is the OP's issue as well: they'd be better off letting somebody else like Google parse their text instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by tominsam on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:31AM (#23748963)
and indeed that comic (published September 2014) is more than 5 years old now. Seems accurate.