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"I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900."

wont be long before he's on a 'this administration is finishing a war marxist islamist so-called democracts created 50 years ago'

This is also the second time on 2 days I've seen an Anti AI thread on here that has essentially been the poster trying to sell their book.

I'm really stuck on the idea that so many of the people who don't see the value/use cases of LLMs have never actually worked in industry/corporate at an operational level.

Like yeah it's bad, a lot of tedious and often ultimately pointless admin and comms, that I can now reduce my time on by 75%

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Think this page needs some updating.

i believe in turning it off and on again

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

state of your union, mate

never really thought about how bad email actually is

bro

instead of filling out multiple fields on a form, or multiple forms, it can be one picture and a couple words sent by email/teams/whatsapp/slack

LLM powered flexible OCR has saved my department hundreds of hours in manual data entry.

it's been bad for my health so I do it less

so rare eddie had to mention it twice.

The body is good, but underneath has some bad spots that I want to get looked at. Overall condition is good for its age I think.

Been looking at these for years and couldn't justify it. Went for a very late 400 instead of an early 450.

Battery is much cheaper to replace, and it's from somewhat peak toyota era . I bought it at a price im ok with investing a bit more, and majority of my driving is motorway.

RX400H

Lexis RX400H engine bay

Will this be the best or worst automotive decision I've made....

I used to have one. Proper good trucks.

Broke: "zitron is a glorified markov chain"
Woke: "zitron is gofai"
Bespoke: "zitron is several conditionals with print statements"

I can't imagine it's worse than the Google cloud dashboard.

Still somewhat haunted by the Biden saying 'welcome home' to Trump at the start of this term.

Quite possibly. It's supposedly the twin turbo diesel, but it's incredibly sluggish and requires considerable enthusiasm to get moving. Did not notice this at all in the Amarok which should have the same engine and transmission.

Driving a current generation Ford Ranger at the minute, and despite it being the same vehicle as the current VW Amarok, it feels so much worse to drive for some reason.

They're all such 'characters' which is all that really matters, the content... sure we disagree about really important things that mean life or death for others, but on the other hand, fascinating conversations with very interesting people.

a cartoon character is holding a hose in his hand ALT: a cartoon character is holding a hose in his hand

I'm sorry you feel that way.

i know its 2026 and i've spent more before, but i really don't want to spend more than 5k on a used car.

You're saying that regular fleets won't spend millions to build charging infrastructure that they must sign NDAs to even look at, after spending the millions, and be bound by private arbitration for any contract disputes.

Does bangernomics still work in 2025? #weirdcarbs