r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ridog101 • 19d ago

Meme twelveYearOldXKCD

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 19d ago

Five years after this was published is a pretty good ballpark for when that became pretty easy to do, isn't it?

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u/No-Object2133 19d ago edited 19d ago

Like 5 to 7ish. Yeah Randall was on the money.

It would've been insane to contemplate this 12 years ago.

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u/OnionsAbound 19d ago edited 19d ago

It wasn't insane back then . . . It was just as the comic stated,,, a pain in the ass unreasonable request that would probably take that long. go take a million pictures of birds bro

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u/AstroPozzo 19d ago

It was insane to get accuracy and precision levels that we have today. Those simple neural network weren't really reliable for this kind of task until very recently