News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
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".
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.