hinterlufer
@hinterlufer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 weeks ago:
I’m writing notes for myself and I can read them. When I’m writing for someone else (which rarely happens for handwritten notes) I take the time and effort to write nicer.
Also, I specifically didn’t write the example carefully because the use case for me would specifically be handwritten notes I made for myself.
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 weeks ago:
How else do you write them? Worth mentioning that I learned cursive in school and we had to write in cursive until like middle school when I then mostly transitioned to a happy mix of cursive and non-cursive
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 weeks ago:
I like dotted paper, the dots are less distracting than grids, lined paper sucks for sketches/etc. and with plain paper I’m missing guides. But I agree that on this particular one, the dots are a bit too prominent.
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 weeks ago:
That’s perfect. Now I’m just wondering why chatGPT is apparently much better in OCR than a dedicated OCR model like EasyOCR or Tesseract.
Btw, Deepseek did a good job but not perfect. I also fed chatGPT a full page of notes and the transcription to markdown worked quite well, although not perfect. However, if I supply the same note as part of a larger pdf, it will refuse to transcribe it, stating that it’s unreadable.
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- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear, but I can now drink through a strap without opening my mouth
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 4 weeks ago:
There are research stations in Antarctica where it has like -60°C or lower on a typical day. There’s an interesting post on stackexchange referencing the US Antarctica programme on about what clothing for these conditions should look like.
- Comment on How do I host a site for sharing notes for peers? 2 months ago:
+1 for mediawiki
Although you really need to consider the peer group you are working with, and make the contribution as little work as possible. In my experience, as soon as the course is over people won’t want to do any extra work like change the formatting or integrating with existing materials. And requiring to use a specific format (even if it’s something dead simple as markdown) might already be too much friction.
In my experience shared cloud storage (GDrive, Dropbox,…) works quite well, even if the feature set is very limited. Being able to simply plonk your .docx/.pdf/.whatever into there is very easy and low friction.
A different solution I saw that worked was a forum where you could also upload files that could be categorized into the different courses and were then accessible by others. If you were to self-host this, you’d really want to make sure somehow that it’s not exploited to spread malware or worse.
Anyways, I wouldn’t think too much about how well the material can be represented, but rather how you can get your peers to continuously contribute to it. The best representation is useless without the data going with it.
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 2 months ago:
2 kW is a ton of power required to keep a single room warm assuming you ran that continuously.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 3 months ago:
don’t forget autoplay video and music
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 months ago:
The one made out of plastic? That one sucks compared to the one I mentioned before.
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 months ago:
Ikea OMTÄNKSAM
- Comment on Thanks, Logan. 4 months ago:
Eh, if someone comes up with such a comparison it immediately tells that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Like, linseed oil was also used for waterproofing (oilskin), yet it is quite healthy. Other applications/occurences of a substance simply don’t tell you anything about it being good or bad for you.
- Comment on Pumpkin spice!! 4 months ago:
How can you make sugar water taste bad? Or am I not getting something here?
- Comment on So sick! 5 months ago:
There’s no bit of branding on there though and the artwork is pretty neat. I wish the print was higher quality though.
- Comment on I started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me? 6 months ago:
You can create an email alias for your Microsoft account and then only enable login from that account. If you then do not use that email for anything but the login, you should be pretty safe from credential stuffing attacks.
- Comment on Do a PhD, they said. 8 months ago:
As someone in an important position once said to me, having a PhD shows that you have frustration tolerance.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 8 months ago:
You don’t. You could try overleaf or some wysiwyg editor for LaTeX, but both need some getting used to and at least a minute amount of effort. Overleaf probably has the lowest barrier of entry (0 set up required), but is a paid service.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 8 months ago:
yep, markdown is a great alternative to LaTeX if you don’t need fancy layouts or anything special
- Comment on blast me off, fam 9 months ago:
From what I’ve found on safety datasheets it should be more like 3 g/kg. The numbers on this seem a bit off in general.
- Comment on Why do people give videos English titles when the videos themselves are in some other language? 10 months ago:
Are you speaking of YouTube? YouTube has a “feature” that will auto-translate titles of videos to your account language (the creator may have to enable this, not sure).
If you google for the issue you’ll find multiple people with the same issue, but afaik there’s not really a proper way to prevent the translation. If you do understand the original language, you can add it to your account languages to stop translation though.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 1 year ago:
Ot says max. 0.3% caffeine content in the coffee dry matter. Roasted Arabica beans have around 1.5% caffeine (although it may vary significantly), meaning that decaf may have as much caffein as 20% of regular coffee.
- Comment on How do empty nesters deal with over cooking? 1 year ago:
Have you also found that their serving sizes are way too small or is it just us?
- Comment on What Does Fabric Conditioner Do? And Should I Use It? 1 year ago:
Powder is mostly filler though