Re:Show HN: Open-source text-to-geolocation models
by JimDabell on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:40AM
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Not surprised, just not relevant. The criteria here is “you can get pretty good results”, not “you must be able to process millions of articles without failure”.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source text-to-geolocation models
by rmbyrro on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:52PM
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If a method is not generalizable to the entire dataset, it's not that useful.
When processing text at large scale, the usefulness of heuristic approaches like the one we're discussing diminishes rapidly.
Re:Show HN: Open-source text-to-geolocation models
by JimDabell on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:42AM
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> If a method is not generalizable to the entire dataset, it's not that useful.
No, in many situations, something doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful.
Again, I think you are missing the original point being made:
> Depending upon your use-case, you can get pretty good results by…
You seem to be responding as if I said:
> For all use-cases, you can get flawless results by…
Pointing out that this is not perfect is irrelevant to the point I was making. “Good enough” is usually good enough.