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I've found there's a big difference in OCR accuracy where it comes to handwriting. For printed text, I've used tesseract, but it seems to miss a lot for handwriting. In my experien…

Wow, that's bad. I also think that structurally, universities have academic career advancement problems. It's a very difficult system to to into and out of, in a way that is toxic …

I like the idea of a points system like Australia has, but I'm wary of the excessive emphasis on STEM, and I'm even less enthusiastic about the idea of empowering universities to "…

Your reply is important. There is a myth that bullies are weak cowards. Now, they may actually turn into cowards when they are faced with a fight that is important but they are lik…

What do you think prevents prices from rising?

I am still interested in knowing what you think Carville was talking about, without prompting from me. You might want to read the interview where he said this. But I'll give an exa…

Yes, there are a lot of people who will say that. They provide a living, walking straw man, and there are enough of them that I can't say you're cherry picking. As for the tweet, I…

I think you're using the term "inhabitants" loosely here. The US doesn't have much of a social safety net, which means that any city that attempts to build one may suddenly find th…

Nah, you're not. I often find myself wanting more data and stats when I read the interviewing.io blog as well.

Good post, though with the graphic, I do think this is one of those cases when the y-intercept should start at zero. The graphic does make a 7% difference look like a 3x difference…

I enjoyed this article and find the service this company offers intriguing. I've watched a bunch of videos and see a lot of value in paying for a very professional interview with a…

This article made me thing about the idea of "cohort" disadvantage (as opposed to generational disadvantage).[1] It's not so much which decade you were born in, but whether you wer…

For all its faults, California really got this one right. In some ways, this goes to show just how remarkably harmful non-competes are to the economy. If you make non-competes unen…

Interesting observation. I agree with what you've written, but I might even go one step farther, the wealthy like extremely expensive things that don't require much money. Yeah, I'…

To try to be as charitable as possible to the journalist who wrote this line, I'd say it means that there was a moment when "we" (society and our institutions) might have been able…

and works from inside a whale.

I was floored by the reporting from the sfchronicle about the conditions in one of the hotels San Francisco leased and used to house the "homeless" during the pandemic. I put "home…

I'd be interested in learning more of what you mean about "good programming". If you mean the standard practices around software engineering - code reviews, unit testing, integrati…

The problems with employer controlled work visas are so apparent, and have been apparent for so long, that I believe these issues really are a feature rather than a bug. Keep in mi…

For another point of view, I recommend this article from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/california-studen...

I'm going to be a little obnoxious here. Did he really implement a factoring program, or did he approximate the solution to a high precision numerically? Both would be impressive u…

Yeah it’s there. Should have read it better.