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mircea_popescu: when you have to correct on average 1 error per book, which is where i expect this can be taken, it's just a breeze.
mircea_popescu: there's worse fates to library text than being read once.
mircea_popescu: phf incidentally, how interested are you in the unholy art of probabilistic models ? it occurs to me that making a proper ocr would be a most respectable task, but not really for everyone.
mircea_popescu: they work a lot the fuck better than dumb ocr present currently.
mircea_popescu: same principle as in machine translation, search engines, etc.
mircea_popescu: trained statistical model for ocr, either markov or whatever.
mircea_popescu: makes ten trillion parameters, sets them all to 0, then sets more and more to values
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform self-trained like the markov nonsense works.
mircea_popescu: "hm, i wonder how come these guys keep speaking about modems in non-modem context".
mircea_popescu: if proggy has no fucking idea modems don't go with macbeth a) it's not trained and b) everyone involved is fired.
mircea_popescu: there's really no reason a 100% accuracy over 1mb text ocr can't be had today.
mircea_popescu: i had an issue with an ocr that was TOO informed, kept creating single glyph fl and other wonders.
mircea_popescu: ocr is really a good fit for the markov chains as ai they do
mircea_popescu: google has the patience to fuck with go, hasn't the patience to fix ocr ?
mircea_popescu: scans as bitmaps are ~in the situation of wine as stum.
mircea_popescu: seriously, this is allowed, "graphics" that aren't svg and text that's not tex ?!
mircea_popescu: incidentally why the fuck is the web not native latex.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's vaguely inhuman, this. the scholar in me is constantly opressed by various shits. 1. "oh we don;t alphabet - pdf" 2. "oh you can't reference text snippet" 3. "oh we forget, what was this ? linkrot ?" and i think there's more
mircea_popescu: there's a serious problem with digital handling of text, as we have it atm.
mircea_popescu: trinque tbh, i think wikis are a (braindamaged, dysfunctional, uncomprehending) response to the html-is-broken / transclusion issue discussed yest and etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: he must be killed, publicly, and the carcass left to rot where it fell.
mircea_popescu: there is nothing dingledine can ever do that can redeem him, because the manner in which he thinks is beyond salvation.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, this paste is a point-by-point example of sinful, evil behaviour.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger is this one of those guys you're friends with, then ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: usg agent wondering if the actual people fighting the usg are a "cointelpro style" "attack" ?
mircea_popescu: "we won't bury the corpse until nsa provides a new trough"
mircea_popescu: " Things are probably going to get worse before they get better." << ahahahaha.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you fully appreciate just how braindamaged this "laughing gas of the future" actually is.
mircea_popescu: they wouldn't have discoverd it exists week-and-a-half after "having a solution" and buolding consensus etc
mircea_popescu: ethereum being "smart", it's not just mempool, but also cpupool. and the "soft fork" being essentially a "enumerate badness" attempt, you still gotta check and make sure tx isn't on the verboten list. which computation you do for free, because you believe in mit, socialism and buterin.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (one of the lulziest parts - they made their criteria be < cost. in non-scamcoin-head terms, this is not unlike making a soft fork dependent on mempool being < x.)
mircea_popescu: sooo, ethereum "soft fork" due to go in, about 60 hours left. i hope everyone's ready for the lulzpocalypse
mircea_popescu: carmine persico ruled the colombos for 40 years, of which 36 in jail.
mircea_popescu: so did most respectable people. think about it for a second.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, it's not. tens of thousands of sub-parity IQ dudes do this on a regular basis.
mircea_popescu: yeah what's the girl say about all this ? itching to alpha bitch ?
mircea_popescu: who could ever have predicted alf is SO DEDICATED to his new country, he'll build jamestown on the misipipi before leaving.
mircea_popescu always preferred living with pimps over dope dealers, thugs and etc.
mircea_popescu: then when i finally visit the collapsed empire, i have where to guest stay.
mircea_popescu: wtf else, putin doesn't understand how the world works ?
mircea_popescu: this bizarro libertard thing where "not using words in the way we'd prefer them used" = "not using words right"
mircea_popescu: libertardism. "lalala i can't hear you and words are salad ingredients"
mircea_popescu: conventionally, not ALWAYS to be treated as inferior, but that's more a flavour thing than anything else.
mircea_popescu: bullshit. if anyone knows what shit means "in the scene" it'd be me, and yes cuck means inferior.
mircea_popescu: trinque wait, they got linguistically cuckolded by their own patronym, fucking around with right wingers without their approval ?
mircea_popescu: like - school, government, commerce, politics, footbal - you name it.
mircea_popescu: there's this deeply ingrained expectation of "participating" without participation.