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Post by nephanth »

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

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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.

Another interesting quirk of human reading is that it is pretty agnostic to the actual order of letters in a word as long as the first and last one are placed correctly

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by nephanth »

picture wrote: post #93
_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-... .

The Clairefontaine paper used in Rhodia's Rhodiarama notebooks are also excellent. The soft cover Rhodiarama are some of the best paper for really watery inks. Another fantastic option is Midori's notebook paper, their whole design and the open grid option are really pretty. https://www.midori-japan.co.jp/md/en/products/mdnote/ Also if you're willing to over pay, the Kleid 2mm grid notebook with OK Fools paper are am…

Clairefontaine paper is my go-to whenever I want to do ink-intensive writing (think calligraphy) I has beared the high debit of my noodlers ahab, and even my dip pens with flexible and/or large nibs, all of that with relatively watery ink (l'artisan pastellier's), and without ever bleeding through

Too bad that since I moved to America, I haven't been able to find paper that good for this affordable a price

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Post by oldsecondhand »

sombremesa wrote: post #115
QuarterReptile wrote: post #43

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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 disagree on the suggested method, but I agree that handwriting can be improved. Someone who writes in prescription cursive isn't going to get better with a new pen and different paper. It takes deliberate practice and attention to detail. This is why "a poor craftsman blames his tools" is an adage.

My handwriting is much cleaner with a fountain pen than a ballpoint pen. Tools matter. It doesn't have to be an expensive fountain pen or paper, a cheap Faber Castell on printer paper works fine.

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Post by mauvehaus »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #213
Retric wrote: post #209

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I think people use font models rather than just language models. The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people.

> The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people. To be fair, the amount of people who write their own address incorrectly is staggering. I'm in eCommerce and easily 70%+ of addresses have some sort of minor error in them. Around 5-10% are just plain bizarre, with things like two suburbs being included or the street name not in…

I have a weird address, and easily 30% of websites insist on fucking it up by applying validation rules that might make sense from 20,000 feet, but don't actually work in practice for our address.

The most straightforward of them is that some validation services insist that our ZIP code is for the next town over instead of the one we live in, which has its own post office. Nothing correct happens if our mail goes to the wrong post office because they (rightly) have no idea how to deliver mail to us.

I wouldn't be so confident that 100% of that 70% don't know their own address. For at least some of those cases, I'm willing to bet they know something you don't about the vagaries of mail and package delivery to their address.

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Post by marc_io »

irae wrote: post #179
forinti wrote: post #166

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It's not hard at all to open a business in Brazil, unless you work with things that require safety inspections (food, health, chemicals, etc). Closing a business is a bit of a bother, but it is mostly a question of waiting.

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…

This is absolutely true for most companies, but in this specific case he could open a “MEI” type of business (individual micro-entrepreneur) on the government website and use the CNAE 8219-9/99 (“Digitator” or typist) to receive immediately a CNPJ, which would allow him to launch the site on the first day and charge customers, paying very few taxes and without a lot of bureaucracy (well, he would end up needing to deliver some papers to the city hall after that and also generate all the invoices, but this can be done days later, during the first month of CNPJ creation).

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Post by sethammons »

criddell wrote: post #53
globalise83 wrote: post #46

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There is a delicious irony in the fact that you are training yourself using a reinforcement learning approach to meet the needs of an imperfect machine learning application.

An inexpensive bit of consumer tech. was able to accomplish something that years of human teachers could not.

The insta-feedback. I learned to spell because a little red squiggly line told me to try again. I avoided the right-click to autocorrect. Now everything just autocorrects and I assume people are more and more reliant on it.
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