Comment by istingray
5 years ago
godelski, I really appreciate such a thoughtful response to my curiosity.
Looking at this while better understanding the problem, I wonder what features I really want for my own photo library. Thinking of iOS photos. Matching people together seems hard. But grouping photos by GPS location or date is trivial. So we have to get clear on what features are important for home photo libraries.
I can now see how the idea of "use public libraries = solution" falls short. It neither presents a viable solution or demonstrates rigorous understanding.
Hey, that's what HN is about. You got experts in very specific niches and we should be able to talk to each other in detail, right? That's the advantage of this place as opposed to somewhere like Reddit. Though expanding size we face similar issues.
These are good points about GPS and other metadata. I didn't really think about that when thinking about this problem, but every album I create is pretty much a combination of GPS and temporally based (though I create this with friends). But I think you're right in suggesting that there are likely _simple_ ways to group some things that aren't currently being done.
> I can now see how the idea of "use public libraries = solution" falls short. It neither presents a viable solution or demonstrates rigorous understanding.
ML is hard. But everyone sells it as easy. But then again, if it was easy why would Google and Facebook pay such a high rate for researchers? There's a lot of people in this space and so it is noisy. But I think if you have a pretty strong math background you start to be able to pick out the signal from the noise better and see that there is a lot more to the research than getting SOTA results on benchmark datasets.