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A 2020 review of Handwritten Character Recognition
https://nanonets.com/blog/handwritten-character-recognition/

OCR is considered a solved problem in general but not in entirety

A key component of it, HTR is still a challenging problem.

Handwriting Text Recognition(HTR) is the task of recognizing handwritten human text

It involves using both Computer Vision and NLP

Every person has a different style of handwriting , thus solving HTR is much more difficult than OCR

In this article I cover the progress of techniques in solving HTR and various SOTA models

In addition I have discussed the way to train your own HTR model on your own dataset

Happy to discuss more if you interested more to learn more about handwritten text recognition
I really think they should push this, because if you are in the market for an e ink notebook like this, you are probably a niche customer to begin with. Everyone else and their mother draws on an iPad. This is nerd hardware, and they really should lean into it with the marketing.
The history behind the term is pretty interesting to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History The original research on the subject was published in engineering / optimization as opposed to computer science, and the term "programming" was used differently there ("linear programming" and "quadratic programming" for example). Now we think of it not as an optimization problem but as an algorithm design technique, but the name still stuck around.
The moving part? Probably because of better salaries. I don't know much about Taiwan and how nationalistic they are, but for most of the world working in the US is seen as the career endgame (or means to get there).

If the question was why would Intel invest into making the chips in US - from recent news it seems like US understands how dependent it is on other nations for silicon manufacturing, which poses many questions. The biggest one seems to be national security, which looking from the side is the only factor that gets thing done in US.
For Windows, I've used this script to build ffmpeg with vmaf support.

https://github.com/m-ab-s/media-autobuild_suite
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Vehicle speed can be easily measured and is a fact and an offense. Here there were conflicting informations about the other person's age and the offendents could have believed that the other person is 20+.

Let's put that differently. If your speed meeter is broken and you believe that you are not speeding, but in fact are still speeding, then the situation is clear. Here the other person was really 20+, so his judgment was actually correct.
3.1.3(b) is probably what they're obliquely referencing, but I was once told by an Apple App Reviewer that "not all of our rules or guidelines are published" which caused me to have an aneurysm and shout "THEN WHAT'S THE POINT OF THE RULES?"

"You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase."

2.3.10 has a bit about not including "irrelevant information about Apple or the development process." It's under the Metadata section, but still:

"2.3.10 Make sure your app is focused on the iOS, Mac, Apple TV or Apple Watch experience, and don’t include names, icons, or imagery of other mobile platforms in your app or metadata, unless there is specific, approved interactive functionality. Make sure your app metadata is focused on the app itself and its experience. Don’t include irrelevant information, including but not limited to information about Apple or the development process."

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Or stick to the same old version. Or know how your data is written and read and create a parser for it to migrate it to another program, even if the original author dies.
Would it make sense to short TSLA? One thing going for Tesla is their supercharger network and huge bets on fleet data collection to improve their AI/SD capabilities. Also, Tesla is vertically integrated in terms of battery + car + SDS + SDS hardware (in house silicon). Does that warrant such an insane stock price even accounting for future revenue forecasts and margins?
free money for the billionaires and inflation for the rest. lovely.
How? I was never offered to purchase an ad as user.
Oh they ironi..

> Xi's government, in contrast to the communist governments 60 years ago, leverages it in a standard social conservative way rather than being against it on communist grounds

This is literally written on a thread about people jailed and tortured because of their religion.

> Why not either spend time learning about this place, or stop caring?

The Chinese government has made it impossible to communicate with the people in that region. How about they let reporters move freely and interview people?

Also, "stop caring*?
Fantastic aesthetic for all their projects. Mil-industrial-retro-future.
If this could work with millions of people it’s possible to leverage chat frameworks and GPT to automate the dragnet.

With a Ring door camera the evidence gathering could also be automated. Facebook / Faceswap / reverse google image search could get us a pretty good guess at a legal name and cell number. Homeland security can correlate to online handles.

If the private face databases do not cooperate then that’s going to make life difficult, but exerting media / public pressure on them to “help catch pedos” should enforce their compliance.

Correlate this all with taxpayer and employer information too. It’s a victimless crime so a fixed penalty — 20% garnished from wages for a decade — seems appropriate. (It’s “fixed” in that the percentage doesn’t change, even though the amount does.)

Getting to trial is time consuming and expensive even if we have caught the same person that we catfished into showing up at the doorbell camera. However, if we automatically WhatsApp the perpetrator a link to a plea bargain Google Form, a good percentage are going to no-contest the charges and admit guilt via a submit form button. Degrade the video quality enough and apply some ML to match skin and hair tones. We don’t need to be precise if we make it seem like we won’t back down in court.

Tie this all into the IRS and we of course will automate the fines collection. 20% of average income multiplied by a million would be a significant enough revenue to cover the salaries of our consultants and admin staff.

Moreover, sir, there will be a significant impact on your reputation with key voters. According to our analysis of private conversation sentiment in the most volatile quintile in key swing states, this proposal will be sure to secure you a third term in office.
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I’d agree with you if the supposed victim wasn’t a 24 year old who provided pictures of themselves in the lead-up to the meeting. To me, it reads like the police constructed an interaction where it would have been clear to the target of the sting in the moment that he was engaging with an adult (which was indeed the truth), but that included a few phrases that show evidence of guilt when removed from that moment.

I think the police could have demonstrated much more convincing evidence of guilt if they had someone who looked like a 13 year old answer the door, and recorded the man’s reaction.
lek (Swedish) = leg (Danish), so lek is short for leg godt in the same sense play is short for play well ;)
And I am sure there are still comercial modules around, from the 70s or earlier, as well..
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There is something missing from this argument: How is Bitcoin a store of value?
> calling their looted artefacts by their dynasty (i.e “Babylonian” or “Sumerian”)

There is no "Sumerian" dynasty nor even any similar concept. There is a language we refer to as Sumerian. We don't really know anything about Sumer; we took the name from the traditional royal title "King of Sumer and Akkad".

I don't see what your problem is with identifying artifacts by the period they come from. First, that is significantly more informative than identifying the modern region occupying the same area. Second, no one is going to be confused over which modern country holds the site of Babylon. Third, as you might have noticed me alluding to, "Iraq" did not actually exist at the time.

Who do you think should have the strongest moral claim to royal artifacts from the 23rd dynasty of Egypt? Does putting "Egypt" in the name help answer the question?
I always thought my parents should have seen the potential of Microsoft and Apple back in the day. But what potential did I see?

1999: I was a teenager, so no stocks for me

2009: In my early twenties, no cash, not interested in the stock market

2020: Saw the potential of recovery, most money already tied up (house, stocks)

The tech companies pulled the stock market back up. The future will be in tech. So I'm not betting against tech. I do not care much about arguments, I just buy some bitcoin because I think technology is the future. Is it blockchain? I don't know, don't care, but sure I'm not gonna miss it.

Almost all people are bad at making future forecasts. So I don't.
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Victimless is not victimless. I propose the criterion of counterfactual victimhood - whether given the behavior of the subject, there exists an alternate universe in which there was a victim of a crime. For instance, consider an attempted murder that failed before the murderer even got near the target. In that case, the victim is counterfactual. However, there are true victimless crimes even under this definition; crimes that never would have had a victim. Speeding for instance doesn't pass this test, but "smoked a joint at home" does. This seems to make it a good fit for my moral beliefs.
In my use case I basically never do picture in picture. I just want to produce content "as live". If you go on YouTube you can find a bunch of behind the scenes videos of people editing together live events on the fly. This should give you a good idea of what "as live" editing is like.
I ordered in March and the shipping schedule keep getting delayed. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a typical Kickstarter or Indigogo hardware project, that never ships.
When you install it, it creates like 8-9 extensions in Safari, depending on selected filters, and two special ones, like Safari Icon and another. Click on each and check permissions
Emphatically agreed. For those not aware, the person who chose the name (for what were originally called "multistage decision processes", which is far more descriptive) says he chose "dynamic" in significant part because it sounded impressive to a hard-nosed boss:

"... It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History

Also, by the way, to the extent that "dynamic programming" has a definition (the words have little to do with what it means, so it's hard to fix the term to a specific definition), it generally refers to a superset of memoization. So memoization is the more specific term, and should be preferred.

I think we may be able to help kill usage of the term by observing that its initialization, DP, which some people are fond of using, has a much more graphic alternate meaning. Then modern puritanism may make people reluctant to say it anymore.
Lol. Exactly how I feel. Confused the heck out of me at first, thinking the page was glitched.
I always thought it depends on the call host.
They do, but they want their users to explicitly know that those 30% are going to Apple.
Probably the correct thing is for matrix to realize that this is an IRC bridge, and warn the user this behavior will occur; they can fix it accordingly, and everyone is happy
If it's the same API as iOS' NetworlExtension, then I don't see why uBlock couldn't happen. uBlock doesn't "phone home" for each request/site, does it?
No, Mr. Cook, please keep the wall up!

You always have the choice to move to Android/Windows and never see Apple ever again. People enter the garden of their own volition, because it's a garden compared to all the crap out there.

None of this whining is about protecting the people, but rather about grabbing a slice of the billion-user pie, which Apple has historically denied other companies ever since they refused to put AT&T bloatware on the first iPhone.

Can you imagine what that would have been like?

People fucking loved the iPhone -because- Apple kept every other company’s bullshit off it!

And people who love curated platforms will continue to love it.

1 Downvote = 1 Trillion (funny how people advocating for freedom try to bury all dissent)
Apple must have a better deal than that with Visa, big actors with have a much better deal than what you commonly see, with no fixed fee. I think they must pay less than 1. 5% transaction fee with no lower limit or fixed addition.
Like creating a Netflix account on Netflix.com and adding my payment credentials there (or Spotify), and then consuming it on the iPhone w/o apple getting any cut?
The only way to get full adoption is to standardise chargers same as with eg USB. Expect the EU to legislate if they haven't already. That'll kill Tesla's network advantage.
Interesting point, but recall these narratives were spoken by bards and inscribed by scholars and monks, not warriors.

For the original authors, the tales of glory are the fantasy of victories they did not witness or commit but likely had to envision—just as modern rap is not the embodiment of power and wealth, but the fantasy and projection of power and wealth, the manifestation not of accomplishment, but of desire.

Narrativity and fiction have more kinship with what one doesn’t have than what one does—the actual ancient warrior’s “narrative” were his captors, heads on pikes, or the enemies he let live to tell the tale. In some respects the poets are responsible for sublimating the brutal, material symbology of war into something cultural, something detached from the event itself.
Looking at the picture in the article, how many 13-year-olds have wrinkles on their forehead? Certainly not many at all. So in this case, it's even really easy to see that she is not that age.
Look at any sufficiently complex and/or low level C like Linux or FreeRTOS, and C text macros are used significantly. Some of the functionality would be horrible to implement otherwise. Being text based they're a pain, but like @gw, I'd have a hard time seeing a language like Zig without macros making a good low level system language. Maybe a good systems application like Kubernetes, similar to Go's niche, but not system kernels.
They're both great! Mcmaster is the greatest website of all time. Sometimes the premium is 200% above other sources, but nobody cares because they can save so much time using Mcmaster. Misumi's configurable products that are machined to order are also a gamechanger, particularly on the Japanese site which has a lot wider variety. And they are hiring robotics engineers which should give interesting results.
You aren't taking into account halving...
Was I the only one reading the title and thinking about the Beowulf cluster[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster
It makes sense for them as a business to convert visitors to users to customers - nothing wrong with that for me.
> Being convicted without having harmed anyone is a travesty of justice.

In Australia, it's illegal (and someone was convicted) for downloading a drawing of child-like cartoon character (Simpsons) performing a sexual act [1]. The rationale is explicitly that although nobody was harmed in the specific instance, the act normalizes and encourages harm to real victims.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-12-08/fake-simpsons-cartoon...
It depends , if fundamentals of cryptography are in danger then yes else no. Currently most probably not in current systems and infrastructures.
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To me this is no problem. Tesla has been a catalyst. IIRC, its corporate mythology has often said as much.

I'm not an economist and I'm sure technically they're supposed to act like a selfish capitalist entity like anyone else, but as a consumer looking on, I just want more non-ICE vehicles no matter what the brand. Tesla will always have a very special place in my heart for making things change. And to me that matters the most.

Also its brand power is right up there with Apple, even still now. All the hysteria in the media of win/fail around Tesla is unrealistic.
I think it's less about whether or not actually intending to commit a crime should be punished, but about whether there was ever such an intention in the first place.

The article makes it sound like this person didn't really believe that the person he was talking to was only 13 years old and, given some of the messages mentioned in the article, that sounds reasonable.

He was talking to a bunch of adult using the photo of an adult woman. People on the internet are not exactly known for never bullshitting people just for the lulz.
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I’m curious whether Apple’s conduct here would be illegal in Australia—I suspect it might be, and believe it should be.

Credit card networks used to tell businesses “you’re not allowed to itemise or pass this fee on to your customers”; at some point (maybe 10–15 years ago? Can’t find a reference quickly) this was confirmed to be illegal in Australia: businesses are allowed to apply a surcharge to cover their transaction costs (and nothing more, though in practice I think many businesses just apply a flat rate like 1–2% which will be higher than their costs for some transactions), per https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/prices-surcharges-receipts....

The relevant legislation only applies to certain payment methods, so it would probably not be directly applicable to Apple’s 30% tax, though perhaps other legislation might protect your ability to at least itemise it (I don’t know); but given that the payment are probably ultimately coming from such payment networks, I wonder whether Apple could become subject to this rule to at least some extent, so that e.g. they had to let you split out the card transaction fees from the rest of their 30% cut and itemise and charge it. (And the purpose of doing that would be to begin pushing them to reduce their absurd 30% tax. Thinking of that, I wonder how many people have complained to ACCC about the 30% tax—it can’t be zero—and why they haven’t come down on Apple like a ton of bricks yet, because what they’re doing is basically the same as what credit card networks did, only 20–50× as greedy and infinitely more anticompetitive since no alternative is permitted on Apple’s platform, whereas credit cards had cash and cheques as alternatives.)
This is different thing to one i posted above, just a note.
Flipping the question around, what makes it not a store of value? Much like gold, as long as the market looks at and goes "oh shiny!" and agrees collectively to keep its price up, it will function as a store of value.

If one day I came up with a nuclear reactor that turned rocks into gold, maybe the market might drop the price of gold, and it would collapse just the same. And it will happen, just probably not in our lifetime.
I sometimes wonder if some of the references to the mythical beasts like fire breathing dragons are simply, some now extinct species of animal with embellishments like fire breathing. Lets face it, oral tradition came with a certain degree of embellishment and we know dinosaurs used to exist, but what's the chances of finding the remains of an extinct animal if we tried to look for it? Perhaps the Dodo would be an exception as, iirc, they last lived on an island somewhere killed by sailors for food, but hopefully you get my point.
I doubt many skeletal remains would be found with Anglo-Saxon remains because none have been found so far, but do archaeologists looking for Anglo-Saxon remains ignore animal remains during the dig process? Its not something I'm familiar with.
If both depositors and borrowers get it — depositors through higher interest rates and borrowers through lower interest rates — then it’s called dual interest rates. If lenders and shareholders get it, then it’s quantitative easing. If the people get it, then it’s helicopter money, and so on.

Winners and Losers

Regardless of what channel the central bank uses to inject money into the economy, the winners and losers are the same: borrowers will be rewarded at the expense of lenders and depositors.

Who seriously believes that all ways of distributing new money have the same winners and losers? Who seriously believes that quantitative easing and helicopter money / UBI have the same winners?

Why is this essay anything else than yet another hodler pumping their bags?
It is still going strong and being actively developed : https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3 & https://pybullet.org/wordpress/
No, you'd be insane to make bets on Tesla, for the simple reason that there are a lot of people making crazy bets on Tesla.

If you want to short TSLA you'd have to hold that position long enough for the market to realize that you're right... that may take a long time, and you may not make it.
I wonder how this would interact with various consumer laws. In Australia, for example, there are standards that prevent ticket sellers for events from being deceptive about fees - adding costs beyond a reasonable amount required to provide the service, etc.

I'm not making any specific case, rather just feeling curious about how this impacts consumer rights and expectations. As a purchaser, I think it might be fair to know that $3 goes to apple when I buy a $10 cooking class using Facebook.

Edit: chrismorgan below posted a much more informative comment in this vein while I typed.
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> I'd agree with you if the supposed victim wasn’t a 24 year old who provided pictures of themselves in the lead-up to the meeting.

That's quite the disingenuous take on the case. You're just cherry-picking the age of the police officer tasked with the sting. During the whole sting the same agent repeatedly made it very clear that the girl he was trying to meet to have sex was 13 years old. That fact didn't discouraged him the slightest and, just like he did 5 or 6 times before, we went to meet the 13 year old girl to have sex with her.
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I guess the scare thing for me is that this is probably not the first, nor the only time this has happened. And not even to just Tesla. I'm constantly impressed by security teams that deal with this level of activity and attention.

How many other companies have been breached in such a manner? We assume FANNG are immune but are they really?
It's Xodo. It has a good range of annotations, they work well, and they're very immediate to use/switch. It also has good enough scroll/zoom capabilities (its locking functionality is a bit lacking, but it's still good enough).

I don't imply it's best suited for everybody, that's the reason why I didn't specify the name.