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Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by littlestymaar »

pstadler wrote: post #38
sofixa wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are, but unless I'm mistaken no country has even close to the same amount of "great cheeses", so might as well start there.

Switzerland disagrees.

Switzerland can disagree as much it wants, it doesn't make the fact less true.

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by littlestymaar »

KMnO4 wrote: post #28
gpas wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My rule of thumb is: if expert human eyes can't classify a thing looking at it, the ai will also fail.

That’s not entirely true. For example, ML is used in radiology to find problems that are too subtle for the human eye to detect.

But pigeons still do it better: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1388594078837878788

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by ealexhudson »

sofixa wrote: post #15
bradwood wrote: post #6

They only seem to be interested in French cheese. What a pity... There are so many great non-French cheeses...

There are, but unless I'm mistaken no country has even close to the same amount of "great cheeses", so might as well start there.

UK produces more varieties. Of course it depends what "great cheese" is defined as - naming is a lot looser in the UK - but a cheese DB without UK (and definitely Italy too) is missing a lot.

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by narag »

As a child, I loved when we visited our family there: fruit as an appetizer and cheese for dessert was much more natural to me... "put a piece of cheese in the ground and you'll find out"

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by tluyben2 »

I got 15 cheeses from FR a few days ago (all French cheeses from the vicinity of Blois) and it had 100% of them wrong. Cheese 16 was a cheddar and it categorised that as Comte, but now I see here that it only recognises French ones? I do like the idea though; my wife can recognise many on sight and smell but I am more of a barbarian and know practically nothing about these except that I like or not like; it would be a handy app for me anyway if it performed better.

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by bradwood »

sofixa wrote: post #15
bradwood wrote: post #6

They only seem to be interested in French cheese. What a pity... There are so many great non-French cheeses...

There are, but unless I'm mistaken no country has even close to the same amount of "great cheeses", so might as well start there.

What about Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?
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