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Several tools similar also can take in previous starts that are partially correct and use them to get closer. For my work, I am finding the local-mip package great for finding prim…

Interesting problems don't exist in a vacuum. I'm sure it was an interesting problem to figure out how to track people who opted out of tracking, how to build gas chambers, how to …

While I agree, there's plenty of people who refuse to watch anything that's not sharp. I think there's room for both to exist, just clearly labeled as "original" and "AI Upscaled t…

I used to work for a drywall manufacturer who still owned their own mines despite efforts to divest from them by some. They always viewed it as a structural advantage to still own …

When Roomba thought it was about to be acquired by Amazon, it did lay off 10% of its staff - https://www.therobotreport.com/irobot-laying-off-10-of-staff... . and after the deal wa…

The best open source OCR model for handwriting in my experience is surya-v2 or nougat, really depends on the docs which is better, each got about 90% accuracy (cosine similarity) i…

In what world is that the "average experience" in American cities?

I looked into this a bit earlier this year. I'm mixed on it. While the FOSS in me wants it all open-source and available to use given that I'm basically labeling training data for …

Fair, looking at the ASR leaderboards it is truly better - https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard and NVIDIA's Canary might be even better? Will try these out.…

Compared to all Whister models? Or the faster ones? And which version of Whisper? All for a faster, more accurate model, but need a bit more.

To suggest another "simple" example, Air Conditioning. It made half the world vastly more livable, and now anywhere in the world you could work every day of the year, reduced death…

It's not quite that specific, but close enough: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/business/dealbook/pornhub... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/california-court... >Thi…

So, I did some OCR research early last year, that didn't include any VLMs, on some 1960s era English scanned documents with a mix of typed and handwritten (about 80/20), and here's…

RetroMags - h https://www.retromags.com/ has 5218 various gaming magazine issues and strategy guides one can download to check out! Looks like the VGHF and RetroMags are working to…

This, if your workout plan for the day has you running is six miles a day, rather than just running the same path over and over again, might as well have fun with it and add a bit …

It has been as low as $5 - https://isthereanydeal.com/game/sid-meiers-civilization-vi-p... and it's $10 at Green Man Gaming right now - https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/sid-mei…

I visited Tokyo a few months back, and while the convenience stores seemed nicer than equivalents in America, I also wasn't particularly impressed. I think if I had just encountere…

100% I hate the videofication of the internet. So much content is locked behind a video that is vastly more difficult to pull detail out of and search and just text. Videos are a g…

There's a wonderful blog post on the PS3 Architecture - https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/ that gives a good overview of the Cell processor with linked resour…

While I get the privacy argument, I hate the trend towards mobile-only with the internet. With the Timeline it's so much easier to use my computer and see a giant map of the world …

Funnily, the blog author has an article all about how demography of ancient Rome was determined - https://acoup.blog/2023/12/22/collections-how-many-people-an... By our standards t…

For OCR of handwriting, I did some comparative analysis a year back, and I found that Tesseract was... not good. However TrOCR was okay , certainly the best of the FOSS solutions. …

Stanford's NLP Group has a good list of more specialized NLP coursers ( as well as CS224N, basically their CS388) - https://nlp.stanford.edu/teaching/ CS 124: From Languages to Inf…

Did you look at the Assignments? The [code and dataset download] links?