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I would expand on this and make a suggestion to people who write software. Use the computing lever, please. Computers are insanely fast and getting faster. If t
by jwr 12y ago
I would expand on this and make a suggestion to people who write software. Use the computing lever, please. Computers are insanely fast and getting faster. If there is a task that you can perform automatically, do it — don't bother me.
Case in point: almost all OCR software is deeply rooted in the 90's when processing power was a fraction of what it is today. Therefore, you load a scanned book into an OCR program, click "Recognize", the program spends 30 seconds doing its work and happily says "I'm done!", while you are left with 600 errors to correct manually. I'd much rather leave the program running for several hours (overnight!) and get 6 errors to correct manually. There is often a tradeoff that many fail to think of.
- melling 12y agoWe should also consider that needing to type 100 words per minute isn't using a lever either. IDE's have gotten quite good, for example. How about adding voice input? Why can't I simply say 'build', 'run', 'indent line' or 'reformat code'? It also knows the 10 variables that are in scope in a function, so why can't I simply say the variable name that I want to type? Voice recognition should understand that I'm working in camel or snake case. Of course, I'd like more complicated actions. 'Select line. Wrap in fast for loop' 'rename function' 'Open file x'
- mamcx 12y agoThis is new for me. How do that? Exist a web service or something similar?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoIs it actually the case that the OCR can do that much better given more time?