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Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
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Re: Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
#132Is that true?! US kids don't learn cursive? How do they write?!
I guess that using block letters, also known as print writing. From Wikipedia: Elementary education in English-speaking countries typically introduces children to the literacy of handwriting using a method of block letters, which may later advance to cursive. The policy of teaching cursive in American elementary schools has varied over time, from strict endorsement, to removal, to being reinstated.
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#134After using a keyboard for circa 50 years, I can't read my own handwriting. I can't even give a reproduceable signature.
Same here. Old enough to remember when your signature on a credit card receipt would be given a quick look to compare it to the scrawl on the back of the card. If this was still being done I’d probably fail 50% of the transactions I attempt.
Re: Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
#135Is that true?! US kids don't learn cursive? How do they write?!
Print/block letters. Random picture from the web: https://i.imgur.com/4X1Mz11.jpeg
I grew up in Portugal, so a different education system, and used cursive until I was 11 or 12. But I had terrible hand writing and one day during class I decided to write text like it was printed on books, computers, etc, and that's what I've been doing since then. Still looks bad, but at least it's readable :P
Re: Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
#136Is that true?! US kids don't learn cursive? How do they write?!
Those around me just write a lot more slowly, writing in print (they don’t connect the letters like in cursive, they can’t easily read my very-clean cursive either, which gives a feeling that my cursive is a sort of superpower)
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Re: Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
#137Before commenting asking about why they don't just use LLMs, please note that the article specifically calls out that they do, but it's not always a viable solution: > The agency uses artificial intelligence and a technology known as optical character recognition to extract text from historical documents. But these methods don’t always work, and they aren’t always accurate. The document at the top is likely an especi…
Determining whether the latest off the shelf LLMs are good enough should be straight forward because of this:
“Some participants have dedicated years of their lives to the program—like Alex Smith, a retiree from Pennsylvania. Over nine years, he transcribed more than 100,000 documents”
Have different LLMs transcribe those same documents and compare to see if the human or machine is or accurate and by how much.
Re: Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
#138Today I learned that in the us children are not taught cursive handwriting. This is rather absurd to me. How are they supposed to write?
It's pretty country specific & not just US.
German school: You have to write cursive with fountain pen
South African uni: You're not allowed to write cursive, we can't read it
...sigh...just decide ffs
Re: Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
#139This is cool.
Re: Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
#140An army of pharmacists ought to do the trick!