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Reminds me of an old "prank" story where some guy convinced his coworker he could write a program that would recognize ascii art (eg: "figlet"). ...so they bot
by ramses0 3y ago
Reminds me of an old "prank" story where some guy convinced his coworker he could write a program that would recognize ascii art (eg: "figlet").
...so they both go their separate ways, the innocent coworker couldn't come up with anything, the prankster let you paste in something to the program and "a few minutes to hours later" it would spit out what it recognized!
An amazing feat of engineering, etc, etc. Co-worker tries to show it to a friend a few weeks later, prankster had to confess that it just emailed him the text, he would respond (manually) with the answer, and the program would insert a plausible/configurable delay before showing the (human-generated) response of "interpreting figlet".
Now? Just feed it to an LLM.
- Y_Y 3y agoThere is a relatively straightforward technique for this that you can use to invert operations like blurring on well-constrained sets. Just generate every letter (in every font) and compare with the start of the input. If you get a good match cut that part off and start over.