On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:43 AM Monte Hurd <[email protected]> wrote:
> True about algorithms never being finished, but aren't we essentially > "stuck" with the first run output, unless I misunderstand how you envision > this working? > > (assuming you don't want to over-write non-blank descriptions the next > time you improve and re-run the process) > Of course we're not "stuck" with the initial automatic descriptions! Whatever gave you that idea? Ideally, each description would be computed on-the-fly, but that won't scale; output needs to be cached, and invalidated when necessary. Possible reasons for cache invalidation: * The item statements have changed * Items referenced in the description (e.g. country for nationality) have changed * The algorithm has been improved * After cache reached a certain age, just to make sure This is why the automatic description cache and the manual description need to be kept separate; just "pasting" the autodesc into the manual description field would mean it could never be updated automatically. That would be very bad indeed.
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