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Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by Tcepsa »

Super_Jambo wrote: post #208
bloak wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always found it somehow ironic that a human can correctly recognise printed characters even if parts of them are missing and the word is misspelt or in a language the human does not know at all, but computers have to resort to language models because an exact comparison of part of the image with other parts of the image (where the same letter is printed in the same font) for some reason is not feasible?

Humans must be using a language model for image recognition when reading though. Otherwise things like failing to spot the the is a duplicate word wouldn't happen so often.

I see what you did there (and I appreciate it! ^_^)

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by Tcepsa »

_virtu wrote: post #83

Slightly off topic, but I'm a bit of a paper snob at this point. While Moleskine is not the bottom of the barrel I still find for use with fountain pen inks they're not the best. You haven't lived until you try out some Tomoe river paper. Check out TarokoShop's notebooks: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TarokoShop?ref=simple-shop-header-... .

If you're on board with loose-leaf, I haven't found a better paper than HP's Premium LaserJet paper for use with fountain pens at a reasonable price point. I know it's a bit counterintuitive ("Printer paper? Seriously?!") but it has worked great for me for years. Not too scratchy or feathery, and no bleed through. Given that I'm often doing the equivalent of semi-throwaway rubber-ducking with it I greatly appreciate being able to use both sides!

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by ronenlh »

twic wrote: post #201
georgecmu wrote: post #92

This is really cool. Use of GPT-3 to augment OCR is an amazing (and, retrospectively, obvious) insight and a great immediate use case for these language models. I wish Remarkable took this idea -- they really oversold their OCR capabilities[1]. It works great in their support and promo videos, but I found the actual performance to be absolutely terrible. [1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600026614…

What could possibly go wrong? https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

Crazy:

“ The error does occur because image segments, that are considered as identical by the pattern matching engine of the Xerox scan copiers, are only saved once and getting reused across the page. If the pattern matching engine works not accurately, image segments get replaced by other segments that are not identical at all, e.g. a 6 gets replaced by an 8.”

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by TulliusCicero »

floatingatoll wrote: post #106
pkdpic wrote: post #40

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This makes me remember that my primary way of finding new things on the web back in middle school was just typing educated guess urls in until I found something. Makes me wonder how interesting the web might be if I just started doing that again, and how boring it might have been if I'd just had a working search engine back then. Then again I also seem to remember getting bored enough with the web to only spend an ho…

Google built their index by externalizing the human cost of curation, aka Webrings. Now all the webrings are dead, because humans are easily tempted by lazy search into not maintaining them. I wish they weren’t. They were a better form of curation than anything since.

I wonder how realistic a hybrid of human and algorithmic curation would be.

Obviously the internet has an enormously long tail, but if a company could ‘curate’/rank the top 10,000 most popular sites, that might still be useful.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by TulliusCicero »

aniforprez wrote: post #71
jaypeg25 wrote: post #45

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I wish Stumble Upon still existed just so I could find the weird corners of the web again. This site and Reddit sort of fill that but also don't quite fit it at all.

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 don’t get complaints like this, my Reddit front page looks fine. Are people subscribing to crappy subreddits and then getting mad at the inevitable results?

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by Graffur »

folli wrote: post #190
Graffur wrote: post #187

Why isn't this marked as a Show HN? Also this seems like a lot of effort for 4k a year. Of course, hopefully you get some more subscribers to make it worth while.

> this seems like a lot of effort for 4k a year Is this Hacker News or Get Rich Quick News?

What is "Get Rich Quick News"? The author included those specific details so I responded to them. I don't think either action reflects too much on this forum.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by daotoad »

cableshaft wrote: post #155
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-…

You might find this presentation interesting: https://thenewstack.io/perl-programmer-pioneers-coding-by-vo...

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by newaccount74 »

beambot wrote: post #211
irae wrote: post #179

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No it is not. You might find it simple, if you don't compare to places that are easier. First you need to file all the paperwork. Then you wait. Once you get approvals, you can't do anything without a bank account, and opening the bank account is a lot of trouble too, because they want to triple check everything. From zero to operational is a long way, and with lots of legal liability along the way. I have a company…

Stripe's Atlas program seems to be available in Brazil? https://stripe.com/atlas

I don't get the appeal of Atlas. You end up having to deal with bureaucracy and taxes in the US in addition to your home country, and if you need any legal/financial advise you now need someone who knows about the situation in multiple countries.

Maybe it makes sense if you want to get funding from US investors, but for a small self-funded business I just don't see the appeal.

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