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It’s just $20, that’s almost free compared to cost of human labor

With an LLM integrated into your IDE like Cursor or Copilot, oftentimes the LLM autocompletes the correct code faster than I can think about what must be done next. I’ve been codin…

I feel like text detection is much better covered by the various ML models discussed elsewhere in the comments. Maybe you can combine those with Live Text. I found Tesseract pretty…

Fair enough. There are some new OCR APIs in the next macOS release. I wonder if the model has been improved.

You can get them through the Vision API (Swift/Objective-C/AppleScript)

It seems to struggle with German text a lot (umlauts etc)

Azure Vison OCR is supposed to be the best commercial OCR model right now and it’s really cheap (same price as Google‘s)

IIRC Tesseract is trained on 300 DPI

Something wrong with your setup. It should be less than 30 s per page with your hardware

macOS Live Text is incredible. Mac only though

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversio...

> sharing state between threads is such a narow niche use case It is the norm. „Kafka scale“ problems are not the norm.

Do you think Meta (Instagram) are pushing GIL removal and Cinder for no reason? They clearly have that scale and still benefit from faster single machine performance

Why? On AWS you can rent a 24 TB, 500 core machine. Almost all problems are smaller than that so don’t need to scale to more than one machine. Building applications that run on mul…

In most parts of Europe the standard room socket has >= 3.6 kW

More like 20x actually, eg Germany has a homicide rate of 0.8 (and 0.3 if you don’t take attempted homicides into account)

I’d consider that dangerous when you compare it to the ~10x lower rate in Western Europe

SIMD, multithreading, better handling of NaN, maybe other factors.

Or just use Conda/Mamba.

You should provide a way for people to reach out to you privately eg email. If you have any public profile/CV that helps as well.

Somewhat related: I built a library to speed up matching many regexes with mostly mismatches by adding non-regex pre matchers. https://github.com/Quantco/multiregex

Where are you based?

SSDs and other storage drives have two layers (or more). The last layer is stable storage (= when you disconnect power no data is lost or corrupted). When you write to such a devic…

What’s your expertise and technology stack? 100€ is easily possible, I think it is kind of the default rate in my space (Python Data Engineering, cloud stuff, …). From my experienc…

Actually I think chapters 1–8 are more valuable than the chapters dealing with a concrete implementation because they teach you ideas and principles