A great software is eating the world story, from a family member in a traditional industry, who is not themselves a technologist but has worked for the Internet for a few years:
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So he is hitting the books figuring out Python scripting, and described an algorithm which is plausible from a CS perspective but perhaps implausible from a "I think those are actual real-world photos and, in that case, you're getting into deeper waters than you know" perspective
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So now he is wondering if he should skunkworks this with Amazon Turk or push forward with the Python image processing plan. Ironically, either of these will make him *discontinuously* more dangerous at his core job than he is today, for being assigned a month of scutwork.
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Sidenote: he said across their client population they might have a million images, and they're considering hiring multiple people full-time for a years long project to process them. I chortled a little. "It's *a million* images; that's no joke." "No you don't understand."
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"What?" "If you successfully have a proof of concept which works for 20k images, you are almost certainly less than one day of work on solving for a million images." "That's 50X larger though." "Neither your computer nor Amazon will care."
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"How hard is this problem that a real company is thinking of throwing multiple people for years at to solve?" It would be a little mean to give to an early career engineer as a job interview problem, but is materially smaller in scope than a hackathon project.
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Would this app help with the problem? Perhaps there’s an API your family member can use to further automate the process/unlink from iOS.https://macpaw.com/gemini-photos
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