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2022-12-12 Home Front: WoT

Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody two years after being charged

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Posted by Fred 2022-12-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 You'd think it was Hillary they were arresting, as long this took.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-12 08:43|| 2022-12-12 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi
...previously in our archives as merely Abu Agila Mas'ud, Abu Agila Mohammed Masud, and Abu Agila Mohammad Masud ...

...But everyone knew him as Nancy.

/Too obscure?

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-12-12 09:07|| 2022-12-12 09:07|| Front Page Top

#3 روكي راكون
ruki rakun

Posted by JHH 2022-12-12 19:27|| 2022-12-12 19:27|| Front Page Top

#4 :-D

Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-12 21:21|| 2022-12-12 21:21|| Front Page Top

#5 /Too obscure?

I laffed!

...previouslyin our archives as merely Abu Agila Mas'ud, Abu Agila Mohammed Masud, and Abu Agila Mohammad Masud ...

"And this is my other brother, Mohammed." Names are a problem if you are building a handy Database of Miscreants and you want a tickle whenever your favorites shows up in the news. Pattern matching gets out of control pretty quick given the various spellings and transliterations. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a two dollar word for the whole mess. I'm wondering how some of the new AI models that do NER would fair against an army of Mohamads...

Posted by SteveS 2022-12-12 22:36|| 2022-12-12 22:36|| Front Page Top

#6 That’s why I try to get variants together against future searches, Steve S. Not being clever enough for any sort of AI, I’m stuck with the Mark 1 brain.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-12 23:45|| 2022-12-12 23:45|| Front Page Top

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