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.
When processing text at large scale, the usefulness of heuristic approaches like the one we're discussing diminishes rapidly.