No one in their right mind believes that you can accomplish widespread, high speed communication via "talking to people IRL" like you can with the internet. It has become a very important way that we share information broadly, deal with emergencies, and stay informed. Going back to the stone age is not a good option at this point. But you know that, and you're just posting nonsense to have an argument.

> No one in their right mind believes that you can accomplish widespread, high speed communication via "talking to people IRL" like you can with the internet.

Nobody claimed that. I'm not sure whether this sort of comms is meaningful at all or whether "staying informed" is just the dopamine thing in effect.

> Going back to the stone age

Its actually 20 years ago. That's less than the median age.

You think the internet started in 2005? Are you sure you belong here?

Third straw-man in a row. get lost, troll.

Link on that, as OCR should be more reliable with Times New Roman due to significant serifs.

I don't have link on that, but the main difficulty with OCR isn't the OCR part (not anymore at least), it's the "clean up" part, and serifs are a pain in the ass, especially on sightly crumpled paper. My use case was an ERP plugin that digitalized and read to receipt to autofill reimbursement demands, and since most receipt use sans-serif fonts, it was mostly fine, but some jokers use serifed font (mostly on receipts you get when using cash, not credit card receipts) and the error rate jumped from like 1% to 13% (not sure about the 1%, it might be a story i told myself to make me feel better, it was a decade ago, before i pivoted to network from AI. I always take the best decision it seems)

I don't know what studies Blinken's State Department considered, but here are 2 studies on the matter.

https://www.academia.edu/72263493/Effect_of_Typeface_Design_...: "For Latin, it was observed that individual letters with serif cause misclassification on (b,h), (u,n), (o,n), (o,u)."

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10220037: [Figure 5 shows higher accuracy for the two sans-serif fonts, Arial and DejaVu compared to Times New Roman, across all OCR engines]

The memo at the time said the serifs can cause OCR issues.

https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1615486871571935232

Just because they claimed it, doesn't make it true. OCR and screen reader software in 2023 did not have problems with serifs.

No? If signalling led to an decision, the reversal is not automatically signalling based. Calibri is just not a good font.

It is racial discrimination by current legal standards. Fact.

Important to mention: Alpine can run from RAM like TinyCore

The dividing lines are the purest form of social construction. "arbitrary" for some people and "everyone agrees" for others.

What about experimentally validating these models against reality? There is kinda a reason why we came up with the models we currently have.

I love how all of his PRs are torn apart as AI slop, and he is still posting about it in public as if it was some kind of success story.

I'm not sure a human would this delusional, maybe its a troll of some sort?

The equivalent of "growing grains" would be reading the documentation - SO is second-hand knowledge.