Best article I read in a long time, kudos
I started a paper website business
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#32So 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…
Bummer with the hand! Have you taken any supplements or do any exercises? Not sure if it’s an RSI but there’s hope out there!
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#33I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.
I have the same issue with my remarkable 2 : My handwriting is not OCR-able
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#34How do you add things like emojis and inline images?
I don’t see anything in the text that maps to either in the output?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
how do you legally accept money then? clarification: i'm in EU
If your turnover is low enough you don’t need to be VAT registered in the UK. Also, in the UK you can be VAT registered and be a sole trader.
do you think as a foreign citizen i'd be able to setup a UK Limited?
i'm familiar with Companies House though
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#37I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.
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.
You can change that.
After I started using a Palm Pilot, my handwriting improved significantly and the changes seem to have been permanent. I get basically 100% accuracy with the Apple Pencil in iOS.
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#38I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.
I have the same issue with my remarkable 2 : My handwriting is not OCR-able
Practice! I found a guide for writing letter like architect, helped me a bunch, after like 30 days of learning new letter shapes
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#39I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.
He really glosses over how he uses GPT-3 to correct the text...
They might consider it a trade secret of sorts. If I were them, I wouldn't want someone to just take the idea and undercut me.
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#40Three above this story on the front page is an article called "The Web Is Fucked", complaining about how there's no character on the web any more, and lamenting the 90s, Geocities etc. etc. I'd say this story refutes that one.
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 hour or two on it at a time. Also I was in middle / elementary school so that might have played a role too.