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Fascinating---most of the examples they showed were immediately legible to me, and not at all examples of "bad handwriting".
by blahedo 4y ago
Fascinating---most of the examples they showed were immediately legible to me, and not at all examples of "bad handwriting".
- wrs 4y agoIt is a little depressing that near-perfect cursive writing is now regarded as “illegible”. I suppose the same thing happened to copperplate, though.
- rootusrootus 4y agoMy 12 year old daughter has not been taught cursive but she read it just fine.
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- pcl 4y agoHaving been belittled by my second-trade teacher for my abysmal cursive, I’m pretty happy to see that particular bit of arcana go by the wayside.
- trilbyglens 3y agoAmen. I live in the Czech Republic and they still teach it here as standard, and everyone writes that way, but I just can't read it at all. Such a pointless thing in the 21st century.
- recursive 3y agoI couldn't be happier about it. It's annoyed me ever since the third grade. And every time someone tells me "your signature must be in cursive". It's nearly as bad as daylight savings time.
- yieldcrv 3y agoI hold the generation as highly regarded
- woodruffw 4y agoThat’s just editorialization on the source’s part: the facility exists because cursive is legible to humans, but not easy for machines to automatically classify.
- netsharc 4y agoGoogle Lens is able to read my handwriting, and I think the tech for it has been around for 10+ years.
- lolinder 4y agoThat's why this is the last facility that does this job—all the other ones are now unnecessary because machines can process enough of the mail.
- woodruffw 4y agoMy handwriting is not your handwriting, nor is it millions of other Americans' handwritings! There's also plenty of edge cases: letters get wet, they smudge, get torn or folded, and so forth. A postal system that processes 420 million letters a day[1] with a 99% true positive rate on OCR still needs to divert 4.2 million letters for manual review. [1]: https://facts.usps.com/one-day/ https://facts.usps.com/one-day/
- quartesixte 3y agoAnd as a postal service, writing off 4.2mil letters is absolutely unacceptable so thus we must dedicate the resources to mitigate this tail risk. This is a common pattern, and why I think AI risk is overstated…unless we suddenly decide to start wholesale writing off the consequences of tail risk.
- jjeaff 3y agoIt will be little solace for the 98% of employees that get laid of by AI to know that at least 2% if their co-workers remain employed. In other words, AI doesn't have to do anything perfectly to replace a large percentage of the workforce.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoThey mention in the video that they can't show real mail for privacy reasons, so it's not obvious to me what we're actually seeing, or if it's representative of what the workers see.