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Neural nets have been better at classifying handwriting (MNIST) than the best humans for a long time. This is what the author means by judgement. They are supe
by rybosworld 8mo ago
Neural nets have been better at classifying handwriting (MNIST) than the best humans for a long time. This is what the author means by judgement.
They are super-human in their ability to classify.
- verdverm 8mo agoClassifiers and LLMs get very different training and objectives, it's a mistake to draw inference from MNIST for coding agents or LLMs more generally. Even within coding, their capability varies widely between context and even runs with the same context. They are not better at judgement in coding for all cases, def not
- kranner 8mo agoA lot of the context is not even explicit, unlike the case for toy problems like MNIST.
- PostOnce 8mo agoTell that to all the OCR fuckups I see in all the ebooks I read.
- raincole 8mo agoYour ebooks are made with handwriting recognition...? What do you read, the digital version of Dead Sea Scrolls?
- PostOnce 8mo agoSome of them are, most of them are standard typesetting, which you would think would be all the easier to OCR, due to the uniformity. But because you're curious, there are some fairly famous handwritten books that maintain their handwriting in publication, my favorite being: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/31/getting-started-in-electronics.html https://boingboing.net/2020/08/31/getting-started-in-electro... Old manuscripts are another one, there are a LOT of those. Is that handwriting? Maybe you'd argue it's "hand-printing" because its so meticulous.
- esafak 8mo agoThey could be OCRs of scanned printed books.