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But if you put this into your accounting spreadsheet or whatever, you'd be off by a few cents all over the place, your account balances wouldn't match up. Then what do you do?
I've been looking into this and 96% isn't great. The solution is digital receipts... which are still being blocked by industry interests etc etc.
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>>Here’s what made the quality good: every time I caught something, I could show the agents what to look for and they’d go fix it everywhere. ... >>These are the days of miracle and wonder. I can’t wait to see what [the next] 30 years of eggs looks like.
Not convinced of that edit - or at least, my read was "revisit this 5 years from now", not 30...
Now that I'm revisiting these comments, thanks for pointing out that 30 - 25 == five years into the future [honestly, I hadn't even given this any thought...]
1999 was ten years ago, right.!?
>Everyone needs a rewarding hobby. I’ve been scanning all of my receipts since 2001. I never typed in a single price - just kept the images. I figured someday the technology to read them would catch up, and the data would be interesting. This is perhaps among the best openers I've ever read. [spoiler: the tech caught up, the data is interesting] I read a lot. This article, entirely.
I have the same thing except instead of receipts, I've been saving everything. "Some day, AI will be able to sort this out." Now I'm just waiting for the token costs to come down ;)
IMHO the worst part of running any business/project is the paperwork...
My taxesforms still get struck typewritten. For 2022, I thanked ChatGPT (lol). Audit me, I don't care (you will).
The most surprising thing about this whole story is that he's been scanning all his receipts for the past 25 years. I've never heard of anyone doing this before and don't really know why you would want to. Still, it made for a somewhat interesting exploration of AI techniques.
Once this can be run entirely offline, with simple github installer [0]... I'll be scanning again. This definitely "reminesced a nerve" that "took me back..."
Unfortunately not looking good for accountants, among others...
[0] I'd recon the majority would use a cloud-based, off-device processing — they just selfie each receipt
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Ten years ago I still used a smartphone; when the banks started allowing mobile deposit, was a very Trekkie day for me...
A bit of a shill comment but… I have chickens and have been tracking egg production in an app that I’ve built, a livestock manager of sorts called Manger. Looking at my data, since we’ve had our first egg 743 days ago, our hens have produced 9,393 eggs, or an average of just above a dozen a day. The app can also count chickens, since each chicken has a UHF RFID. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_iGn_pZ3IkY
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Or a third option: eggs are just a terrible proxy for CPI
Without saying "I bought the exact same brand and type of egg" for 25 years, the data is probably pretty noisy and may reflect the author's income changes as well as the price of eggs.