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Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by talor_a »

QuarterReptile wrote: post #43
gambiting wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeaaaah, his handwriting is actual certified art compared to mine . I can't get anything to recognize my handwriting reliably, including the text recognition built into iOS with Pencil - it's just useless.

To second what the other commenter said to you: I have seen someone with terrible handwriting fix it. He decided he cared, found pens and notebooks he really liked, and started using them attentively. People treat pens like they're all the same, but the drying time, line thickness, weight, drag across the paper, etc. all vary enormously, and if you care, you can probably find the right tool and get your handwriting t…

I decided I hated having chicken-scratch handwriting around the end of high school / beginning of college. I literally did writing worksheets (tracing over letters) like I was in kindergarten. And if I wrote a messy word / letter on my homework I'd cross the word out and do it again. It made a huge difference, and I started getting compliments all the time on my writing. It's slipped back into average territory since, but it definitely works!

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by distrill »

rexreed wrote: post #146

How does this GPT-3 based correction system work on unique names (last names) or on numbers or on things that can't be learned from an Internet corpus?

Likely not great, if it hasn't seen it before. You could fine tune it if you had large amounts of data that sat outside of the internet corpus, but it doesn't sound like that's happening here.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by donio »

ricardobayes wrote: post #117

I love this, for the simple fact it's one step closer for me to be a programmer without needing to sit at a computer or even use one. It's very far fetched right now, but I would love that.

We've had that before (mainframes, punch cards), it's not that great.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by irae »

That is not the first time I see one of your stories and it always brings me a smile to see your new ideas and how implement them.

It also amazes me how some countries make it so easy to open a business. Doing so in Brazil would be a legal nightmare. Your projects are super inspiring and I always have a mind to leave my job and start doing the same. I should probably move to the US or Canada first, otherwise it might not be possible for me.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by cableshaft »

cableshaft wrote: post #23

So I diligently kept a pen and paper journal about my game designs for three years (wrote about 100,000+ words on paper). Switched to digital for a year, wrote 120,000 words just in 2019 (starting every morning sitting at a Starbucks and writing it helped), switched back, then switched back again, doing less and less words each year (for 2021 I'm at like 15,000 words, so pathetic, it's only like 12 entries total, nee…

So this got me trying out various things for dictation and transcription, as that would mean I wouldn't have to type quite as much.

I tried using Windows Speech Recognition, and it's unfortunately seems to be pretty garbage. Tons of mistakes I had to manually correct, couldn't say too much at all without it being so garbled I didn't remember what I really said to correct it manually.

But then I found out about built-in Apple Dictation on Macbook, which sends it to Siri, and I tried reading some old journal entries, and it's actually pretty darn good! I might be able to get through transcribing my other notes using it with minimal corrections. Just need to make sure you state punctuation, or else it doesn't really put any into it.

Still didn't seem that great for programming code though. Would be cool if I could find something decent for that.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by waltbosz »

rkangel wrote: post #87
aniforprez wrote: post #71

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Not to be a downer again but reddit is pretty much dead for this. It's turning into FB more and more every day with a lot of young kids and teenagers filling it with memes and begging for engagement and such. It's not much of an aggregator anymore and is turning into more of an actual social network now except they still have "anonymous" profiles I guess it's what the people running it want but I find myself going th…

I've found Reddit improved by careful curation of my subscribed subreddits. If I spent most of my time in there rather than /r/all then it's great. I still feel like scrolling through memes on /r/all from time to time and that has the beneficial side effect of helping me add to those subscriptions.

This is true to an extent, but I find that reddit culture seeps its way into all subs. There is a overreaching lack of seriousness.

It's my observation that the average redditor is more interested in gaining upvotes via silly class-clown behavior, than actually contributing meaningful conversation. Or interested in upvoting silly comments.

Even in subreddits where the topic of discussion is something serious, such as a forum for advice seeking, people can't help but reply to posts with jokes.

What is worse is when people are downvoted for a reply which is intelligent and serious, but is contrary to popular opinion.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by dang »

MCneill27 wrote: post #86
noodle wrote: post #70

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Wouldn't be HN without the "you can build this trivially" [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ] response.

It's pathetic. So many egos that need to be assuaged every time a clever execution they didn't do is brought to their attention.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No doubt we're all more motivated by ego than we believe we are, but comments that take a supercilious stance and put everybody else down don't help—and are not part of the culture we're hoping for here.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by arbuge »

kroltan wrote: post #128
arbuge wrote: post #113

It's a wonderful project. There's something romantic about it, for sure. And if I could plug my own project, you could also do it by just sending emails: https://publicemails.com .

Ironically, it seems like half of the emails there are just spam.

It's a free service right now. I'm thinking converting it to a paid one like the one in the article might solve this problem.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by bluecatswim »

noodle wrote: post #70
Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #61

It feels less like a paper website business and more just like a traditional website builder except with some OCR to turn notebook pages into web pages. Like, you've still got to edit the page to add links, images, colours, etc. In fact, that seems like the most complicated part. It's a fun gimmick and a nice selling point. But someone will be able to use this idea for Wordpress/Wix/Squarespace plugin. Would be surpr…

Wouldn't be HN without the "you can build this trivially" [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ] response.

That's not what parent said at all, if anything he meant the very opposite. He was just suggesting missing features. The site is a nice tiny project but it's not what you'd expect when you think of making websites from paper, you'd think it would understand layouts and convert them to CSS or let you create a sitemap from a tree but as it is it's just OCRing text and uploading it to a page with an editor next to it.

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Post by closetohome »

Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #61

It feels less like a paper website business and more just like a traditional website builder except with some OCR to turn notebook pages into web pages. Like, you've still got to edit the page to add links, images, colours, etc. In fact, that seems like the most complicated part. It's a fun gimmick and a nice selling point. But someone will be able to use this idea for Wordpress/Wix/Squarespace plugin. Would be surpr…

Yeah it's integration of OCR and a lightweight CMS that also conveniently rolls together fees for hosting and GPT3.

I was a little surprised that the paper part is used only for plain text. It would sort of make sense to have at least a few formatting and layout features.

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