Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem

Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by smcl on Sunday May 31, 2015 @01:37AM (#9633218)

Funny thing us that I bet the kids probably wouldn't really comprehend what they were seeing in most Lego-dong cases. I remember walking past some fairly prominent "8===D" style graffitti each day in my school when I was a kid (I was <10yrs) and thinking it was someone's hasty attempt at a "flipping the bird" gesture :D

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Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by nekopa on Sunday May 31, 2015 @02:10AM (#9633267)

Great, now you've posted that Lego will have to ban any text messaging features.

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Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by TeMPOraL on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:58AM (#9633692)

They won't ban it, they'll have to hire more people to form Second Penis Prevention Brigade to monitor and censor all the messages in real-time.

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Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by njloof on Sunday May 31, 2015 @12:22PM (#9634597)

Surely this is a solvable AI/computer vision problem. And in text, just search for the regular expression "8=+D".

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Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by copsarebastards on Sunday May 31, 2015 @03:14PM (#9635172)

Your regular expression catches very few penises. A very simple case:

    8------>

But you can easily solve that one. A much harder case would be catching stuff like this:

     _
    / \_________
                |\
                | |
       _________|/
    \_/

And even if you could do some image recognition, I think you'd have a hard time differentiating between stuff like this:

    O
   -|-
    |
   / \

And this:

    O
   -|-
    |_
   / \

...because what makes it a penis is not the shape, but the context, which is very hard to recognize.

Don't underestimate the difficulty of filtering human-generated data.

Also, I can't believe I just spent 5 minutes making ASCII penises.

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