@Travis-Butler said in Honest question. Why does J novel club request web novel take downs while at the same time haveing a web novel discussion forum?:
When a new approach is tried, there’s rapid progress- remember expert systems? - and it looks like the last 10-20% will fall shortly, the basic approach is proven, right? Only it turns out that after you’ve got the basic approach, you have to deal with the edge cases it doesn’t cover - and they multiply, not geometrically or even exponentially, but fractally.
Don't I know it... In a distant past that is no longer, I was a PhD student trying to break just the last little obstacles in teaching computers to understand images and match edges and corners in similar images. Today the intro to machine learning 101 is to create a reliable neural network that recognizes numbers.