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by plusepsilon 3240 days ago
I don't think (some) people understand; a slick data annotation tool like this is vastly more useful than the 20th variant of GAN that DeepMind produces :)
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Totally, I think people have this weird sense of entitlement when it comes to high-quality datasets without the commensurate respect for how they're created or the level of effort that goes into them.

Fei-Fei Li gives a good sense for this in her history of ImageNet [1][2].

[1] https://qz.com/1034972/the-data-that-changed-the-direction-o...

[2] http://image-net.org/challenges/talks_2017/imagenet_ilsvrc20...

Totally agree. Annotation effort can explode out of control if you don't have good tooling. Well done, Explosion!