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tasks (xkcd 1425) termsaying

'I'll need a research team and five years' for some seemingly-easy tasks

The 'check if photo is in a national park' / 'check if it's a bird' comic. Useful when someone underestimates an ML / vision / NLP task — 'this is one of those research-team-and-five-years problems.'

aliases: xkcd 1425, research team and five years

references:

• xkcd 1425 — Tasks