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> it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this Or worse. She did.
I am in no way a republican apologist, but how many people were clamoring for the immediate releasing these documents, saying it "should be easy" and all that? Laws were passed ordering their sudden speedy disclosure. How would you have handled this?
If I was Pam? I wouldn't have been.
If she was me, start earlier, hire better, end later.
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It's a tricky issue. In many countries it's not illegal and quite common for children to run around naked in public, during the summer on beaches for example, and so millions of people have holiday photos that are technically CSAM in their possession that they don't even know they have.
CSAM must be for sexual gratification usually. A medical anatomy textbook isn't CSAM.
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It's hilariously revealing that it keeps redacting "Don't".
Odd indeed. The President's name contains no apostrophe :)
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Odd indeed. The President's name contains no apostrophe :)
The emails are bizarrely sloppy with spelling and punctuation, perhaps many usages of "don't" ended up being typed as "don t", triggering an automated find-and-replace.
Nerdsnipe confirmed :) Claude Opus came up with this script: https://pastebin.com/ntE50PkZ It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output: https://pastebin.com/SADsJZHd (I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)
which uses this Rust zlib stream fixer: https://pastebin.com/iy69HWXC
and gives the best output I've seen it produce: https://imgur.com/itYWblh
This is using the same OCR'd text posted by commenter Joe.
Nerdsnipe confirmed :) Claude Opus came up with this script: https://pastebin.com/ntE50PkZ It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output: https://pastebin.com/SADsJZHd (I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)
Letting Claude work a little longer produced this behemoth of a script (which is supposed to be somewhat universal in correcting similar OCR'd PDFs - not yet tested on any others though): https://pastebin.com/PsaFhSP1 which uses this Rust zlib stream fixer: https://pastebin.com/iy69HWXC and gives the best output I've seen it produce: https://imgur.com/itYWblh This is using the same OCR'd text posted by commenter Joe.
Xerox would like a word.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815
Point being, "correcting" to "correct looking" may be worse than just accepting errors. Errors are often clearly identified by humans as a nonsense word. "Correcting" OCR can result in plausible, but wrong results that are more difficult for the human in the loop to identify.
Nerdsnipe confirmed :) Claude Opus came up with this script: https://pastebin.com/ntE50PkZ It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output: https://pastebin.com/SADsJZHd (I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)
So it was a public event attended by 450 people: https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2012/dubin-breast-... https://www.businessinsider.com/dubin-breast-center-benefit-... Even names match up, but oddly the date is different.
She's a medical doctor, who became amnesic when on the stand for Maxwell's case
>Pressed about gaps in her memory, Dubin told the court: "It's very hard for me to remember anything far back and sometimes I can't remember things from last month. My family notices it. I notice it."
> Then my mom wrote the following: “be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here! Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you at least.” I'm lucky to have parents with strong values. My whole life they've given me advice, on the small stuff and the big decisions. I didn't always want to hear it when I was younger, but now in my late thirties, I'm really glad they kept sharing…
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At the risk of repeating myself. Which begs the question why?
To protect the people in power, as always.
There was a time when the guy making the cannon had to sit on top of it for the first shot. Perhaps this kind of policy could be adapted to other situations aswell.
Take the job to guard epstein? take the consequences when things go wrong.
Protect criminals? take the very real consequences if found out
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Letting Claude work a little longer produced this behemoth of a script (which is supposed to be somewhat universal in correcting similar OCR'd PDFs - not yet tested on any others though): https://pastebin.com/PsaFhSP1 which uses this Rust zlib stream fixer: https://pastebin.com/iy69HWXC and gives the best output I've seen it produce: https://imgur.com/itYWblh This is using the same OCR'd text posted by commenter Joe.
> which is supposed to be somewhat universal in correcting similar OCR'd PDFs Xerox would like a word. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815 Point being, "correcting" to "correct looking" may be worse than just accepting errors. Errors are often clearly identified by humans as a nonsense word. "Correcting" OCR can result in plausible, but wrong results that are more difficult for the human in the loop to iden…
So yes, the "fixed" output has errors, but it’s not hallucinating details like an LLM, nor is it trying to produce output that conforms to any linguistic or stylistic heuristics.
The phrase "correcting similar OCR'd PDFs" should have been "correcting similar OCR'd base 64 representations of PDFs".