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No, Apple has a "liberal arts problem"

-- Seriously? This is "analysis"?

A "a self driving car with tons of lasers spinning on it"? Learn before you speak. The noticeable problems are not subtle: clouds covering cities in the UK, buildings not being named on College Campus, etc. Stadia 0.5km out of place. They are obvious, silly, dealbreaker problems for Soccer Moms and Sociology FFS. Algo's are not going to solve this cr@p, its Cartpgraphy 101...and in any event, Google has to hand fit the data that they do have, for a variety of reasons, to sat-nav visuals (including incosistent basemaps).



Totally agree. I know, from many sources that a lot of human labor goes into making the Google data so good. They used to give out cookies to employees who would filter search results as porn/not porn. Algos can only get you so far.


Sorry - I shouldn't have dumped on the liberal arts - maybe I should have used "left brain."

Algorithms are indeed solving a lot of these problems for Google. They are reading the street signs and shop signs for peet's sake!




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