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Your handwriting is pretty bad tbh. Could be the reason. If we were using styluses the problem might not exist.
by goldenkey 10y ago
Your handwriting is pretty bad tbh. Could be the reason. If we were using styluses the problem might not exist.
- JadeNB 10y agoThe handwriting is not great (though let he who can calligraph with a mouse pointer cast the first stone), but, however good or bad it is, the `\pi` clearly is not the main symbol, and the `x^2` and `dx` (which, as has been mentioned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388859), inexplicably renders as `d_x`) are clearly at the same height.
- yorwba 10y agoMy handwriting is pretty bad, but it actually recognized all the symbols correctly (which is really impressive, considering how deformed the pi and 1 are). My point is that assembling the symbols into a complete expression does not seem to work as reliably yet. I had a look at the PhD thesis on the approach and it seems that the algorithm essentially relies on relative positioning only, plus some heuristics for symbols with "appendages" like 'd' or 'p' (This probably explains how "dx" ends up as "d_x"). If it were to additionally take into account relative sizes also, performance might improve a bit.