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by geebee 2y ago
I've found there's a big difference in OCR accuracy where it comes to handwriting. For printed text, I've used tesseract, but it seems to miss a lot for handwriting. In my experience, google cloud vision is far more accurate
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by geebee 3y ago
Wow, that's bad. I also think that structurally, universities have academic career advancement problems. It's a very difficult system to to into and out of, in a way that is toxic for everyone but unusually so for women. It's
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by geebee 3y ago
I like the idea of a points system like Australia has, but I'm wary of the excessive emphasis on STEM, and I'm even less enthusiastic about the idea of empowering universities to "sell" access to US residency and work ri
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by geebee 3y ago
Your reply is important. There is a myth that bullies are weak cowards. Now, they may actually turn into cowards when they are faced with a fight that is important but they are likely to lose. But the idea that you can poke them in the nose
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by geebee 3y ago
What do you think prevents prices from rising?
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by geebee 3y ago
I am still interested in knowing what you think Carville was talking about, without prompting from me. You might want to read the interview where he said this. But I'll give an example. Again, I want to point out that I don't use
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by geebee 3y ago
Yes, there are a lot of people who will say that. They provide a living, walking straw man, and there are enough of them that I can't say you're cherry picking. As for the tweet, I can't see any reason I'd start reading
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by geebee 3y ago
I think you're using the term "inhabitants" loosely here. The US doesn't have much of a social safety net, which means that any city that attempts to build one may suddenly find that "its inhabitants" include t
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by geebee 3y ago
Nah, you're not. I often find myself wanting more data and stats when I read the interviewing.io blog as well.
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by geebee 3y ago
Good post, though with the graphic, I do think this is one of those cases when the y-intercept should start at zero. The graphic does make a 7% difference look like a 3x difference. Same thing for the previous interviewing.io post on whethe
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by geebee 4y ago
I enjoyed this article and find the service this company offers intriguing. I've watched a bunch of videos and see a lot of value in paying for a very professional interview with actual feedback, something that is immensely difficult t
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We have the best technical interviewers on the market(interviewing.io)
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by geebee 4y ago
This article made me thing about the idea of "cohort" disadvantage (as opposed to generational disadvantage).[1] It's not so much which decade you were born in, but whether you were born a year or two before or after a recess
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by geebee 4y ago
For all its faults, California really got this one right. In some ways, this goes to show just how remarkably harmful non-competes are to the economy. If you make non-competes unenforceable, you can put all kinds of barriers up and still ha
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by geebee 4y ago
Interesting observation. I agree with what you've written, but I might even go one step farther, the wealthy like extremely expensive things that don't require much money. Yeah, I'm being a little glib there. But what they lo
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by geebee 4y ago
To try to be as charitable as possible to the journalist who wrote this line, I'd say it means that there was a moment when "we" (society and our institutions) might have been able to intervene in this man's life in orde
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by geebee 4y ago
and works from inside a whale.
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by geebee 4y ago
I was floored by the reporting from the sfchronicle about the conditions in one of the hotels San Francisco leased and used to house the "homeless" during the pandemic. I put "homeless" in quotes because it is not fair t
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by geebee 4y ago
I'd be interested in learning more of what you mean about "good programming". If you mean the standard practices around software engineering - code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, automated testing, archiving and
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by geebee 4y ago
The problems with employer controlled work visas are so apparent, and have been apparent for so long, that I believe these issues really are a feature rather than a bug. Keep in mind, the people and companies that lobbied hard for this prog
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by geebee 4y ago
For another point of view, I recommend this article from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/california-studen...
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by geebee 4y ago
I'm going to be a little obnoxious here. Did he really implement a factoring program, or did he approximate the solution to a high precision numerically? Both would be impressive under the circumstances of course. But if he did it nume
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by geebee 4y ago
Yeah it’s there. Should have read it better.
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by geebee 4y ago
I'm coming in very late to this conversation, but there may be some ambiguity here. Americans will often use the word "Brahmin" to generally refer to an upper class. For instance, the "Boston Brahmins" is a phrase u
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by geebee 4y ago
It depends. There's a kind of professor I like to refer to as the "wheel of misfortune" professor. I think we've all known them - they're one of a group of professors who teach a standard part of a curriculum but te
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by geebee 4y ago
I won't allow it either, but the question does become "what are you going to do about it?" I don't want to assume anything about your experiences, but you might be surprised, in a place like San Francisco, how few option
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by geebee 4y ago
Too late to edit - I meant to write "excluding self inflicted rates", not "excluding non self inflicted rates", though I don't get the impression there was any misunderstanding.
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by geebee 4y ago
Correct - though the US doesn’t have a dramatically higher suicide rate compared to countries with vastly lower gun related homicide rates. So excluding non self inflicted rates may provide the more relevant metric for this analysis.
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by geebee 4y ago
A shortage at a certain wage level probably indicates that the prevailing wage is too low. So targeted visa programs designed to provide more workers at the prevailing wage can suppress wage growth, which, over time, really is no different
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by geebee 4y ago
Isn't there a hack/scam where you could (in the absence of a same-station charge) pay less or nothing to ride bart? I remember people talking bout this ages ago (like, 20 years ago). You keep two bart cards going, and use the same

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