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AaronNewcomer | 3 months ago | on: A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition

The thinking models (especially OpenAI's o3) still seem to do by far the best at this task as they look across the document to see how the writer wrote certain letters where the word is more clear when it runs into confusing words.

I built a whole product around this: https://DocumentTranscribe.com

But I imagine this will keep getting better and that excites me since this was largely built for my own research!

AaronNewcomer | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

Kajabi | Data Engineer Lead | REMOTE

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AaronNewcomer | 2 years ago | on: Cabinets of curiosities laid the foundation for modern museums

As a collector who is in the process of founding a museum, I think my favorite examples of this type of exhibit are: The Great cabinet of curiosities and their collection of collections at the Basel Historical Museum

And then of course the Enlightenment gallery at the British Museum, which is essentially a collection of collections showing how people used to display their various types of collections.

AaronNewcomer | 2 years ago | on: PartyRock

They already have an API in AWS, it’s what this project is showcasing.

AaronNewcomer | 2 years ago | on: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator

It really is pretty remarkable. I research and write about a historic topic that has its roots in France so I had always had the idea of some day localizing my site into French. And it is shockingly good at translating full articles. It understands the context of what is written and knows which words to use to keep the same meaning when literally humans can’t even do it well as there are terms and phrases used 200 years ago that just aren’t used anymore. But are correct and relevant in the context of these antiques.

AaronNewcomer | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Using LLama2 to Correct OCR Errors

I’ve been doing something similar recently that impressed me. I have been taking handwritten manuscripts from the early 1800s and feeding them into AWS Textract and then feeding the raw OCR data results into Claude2 or GPT4 to have to it make sense of the horrible OCR from the handwriting.

I was even more impressed feeding it handwritten French documents like patents from the same time period. AWS Textract only works with English so even with it’s ML OCR of trying to make English words from the French handwriting, it was still workable when telling the LLM I was feeding it French text that was OCR’d even though it all kind seemed like gibberish when looking at it.

AaronNewcomer | 3 years ago

We just launched The AI Creator Hub on Product Hunt! It’s a stacked resource full of AI tools, powered by GPT-3 that help creators launch their first course.

AaronNewcomer | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Consultants, what tax software do you use?

I have been pretty happy with QuickBooks self-employed. I have the version which comes with TurboTax filing.

You can classify all of your income and expenses throughout the year, including your home office, deductions and any other deductions that you qualify for and then it automatically transfers it over to TurboTax.

It also calculates your quarterly filings and helps facilitate paying those.

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