<story><title>Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>One could say, &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;This didn&amp;#x27;t age well.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; but I think the real point of &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; is only reinforced by an almost ironic twist that switched the hard and easy around. Who would have thought ten yeas ago?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yen223</author><text>I thought it aged well. The problem really did become easy 5 years after it was posted</text></comment>
<story><title>Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>One could say, &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;This didn&amp;#x27;t age well.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; but I think the real point of &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; is only reinforced by an almost ironic twist that switched the hard and easy around. Who would have thought ten yeas ago?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>actionfromafar</author><text>Even in 2014, it was apparent that you didn&amp;#x27;t need new &lt;i&gt;research&lt;/i&gt; per se to identify a bird, only a bunch of bird training data.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;DeepFace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;DeepFace&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>