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Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by djha-skin »

The word search for "fart" shows the tool's limits. No entry I saw actually said the word fart, but was listed as doing so -- "fart nawor" (hearts around the world irl), the penny farting (the penny farthing irl), etc.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by vincnetas »

jjwiseman wrote: post #39

The creator gave a talk that has more details on how it was done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfODe92DzLU IIRC he found a way to download streetview images without paying, and used the OCR built-in to macOS (which is really good).

TIL : Shortcuts.app has an "Extract Text from Image" action.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by komali2 »

vincnetas wrote: post #54

My explorations "obey", "injured?", "fuck trump", "fuck obama"

I was trying for various graffiti slogans, turns out the anarchy "(A)" is basically the most difficult thing in the world to search for lol, other political ideologies much easier to find. It did amusingly lead me to search for just "anarchy" which led to 4 pages of bus ads for a show by the "Sons of Anarchy" guy.

EDIT: Lol, "communism" leads to 39 pages of Shen Yun billboards.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by komali2 »

hbarka wrote: post #55

“Andrew Yang” “Mamdani” “Eric Adams”

Mamdani is just one dude's gynecology clinic. I wonder when the data was pulled?

edit: I found mentions of Gaza bombings and there's cars with like #gaza on it so my guess is sometime in the last 2 years.

I could of course look it up but this is a game now for me, like when I found a hella old atlas in a library and tried to figure out the date it was published just by looking at the maps.

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