eastendguy

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by eastendguy 5y ago
NOT true. The regulations that you have in mind never made it into law. Source: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/bundesrat-stoppt...
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Yes, there are. It depends on the program. For example here, no masters is required: https://www.cis.mpg.de/cs-max-planck/ "During the preparatory phase, students take courses to build on their existing knowledge
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by eastendguy 5y ago
In Europe you get paid more, especially in Switzerland. And in general, English is sufficient for getting a CS PhD in Europe. Two examples of many: - https://imprs.is.mpg.de/ - https://ethz.ch/en/the-et
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by eastendguy 5y ago
I have almost the same list, plus I recommend a web browser macro recorder like imacros, uivision or selenium ide. Which one you prefer depends on your taste. They are great for casual and quick form filling and testing, and save me from to
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Sounds similar to Browserflow, which was on HN a few days ago.
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by eastendguy 5y ago
The historically first browser automation tool was iMacros (2001!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMacros
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Ah, it supports many languages - great!
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Anything like this for Chinese?
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by eastendguy 5y ago
I am sure Hertz can afford a 50KW charger at their locations => 1-2h for full charge.
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by eastendguy 5y ago
It seems to be no problem if you automate a real browser as opposed to a headless browser. I think they test for that.
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Agreed. -> I use the ui.vision extension to simulate native mouse movements.
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by eastendguy 5y ago
> Scraping things that don't want to be scraped If all else fails, no website can withstand OCR-based screen scraping. It is slow(er), but fast enough for many use cases.
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Has anyone "here" ever used Ritalin as "study aid" (as suggested in the article)? If so, why and how did it work for you?
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Free & offline: Tesseract + pdfsandwich, see http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/
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by eastendguy 5y ago
> a single use plastic object that has 1/1000 the carbon emissions of the reusable alternative may be the best environmental choice. Is there any data that single use stuff (of any kind) creates less carbon emissions? I would expect
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by eastendguy 5y ago
ABBY is still very good, but for some languages other tools are meanwhile better or at least much cheaper/free: Google Cloud OCR, Amazon Textract, Azure OCR, OCR.space
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Free, but also online: https://ocr.space/searchablepdf It comes with an API, so you can integrate it with your workflow.
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by eastendguy 5y ago
"Low code" tools like Sikuli, Selenium IDE, UIPath or UI Vision are often used for test and process automation. They work well and have their place. Could you do everything with pure Python or C++? Sure, but it would be much slowe
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Tesseract is not really good for text on pictures (non-white background). You can use the free Space OCR API at https://ocr.space instead. Or, just upload your photographs to Google Photos. Google OCRs all images automatically(!
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by eastendguy 5y ago
This blog post is low quality marketing/SEO copy and paste. But the topic itself is very interesting. High-quality lecture series around the same topic (Human Behavioral Biology) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g
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by eastendguy 5y ago
"They want you to associate them with privacy, and conclude that privacy laws are pointless and should be repealed." Once in a while I read/learn something new at HN that changes my perspective on things. This sentence is suc
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by eastendguy 5y ago
My personal reason for using "the cloud" in this specific case is that the OCR results are significantly better. > The cloud == someone else's computer. I think everyone around here knows this and can make their own decisi
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by eastendguy 5y ago
The problem with Naptha is that the OCR quality of Tesseract (used by Project Naptha) is not very good for screenshots. Historically Tesseract has been optimized for text documents. So the OCR results of this new macOCR app are significantl
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Copyfish is cross-platform: https://ocr.space/copyfish
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Battle of the Biotech Unicorns: CureVac vs. Moderna [2017!](labiotech.eu)
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by eastendguy 5y ago
All _key_ components for large airplanes are made either in the EU, Israel, CA or USA. By contrast, the Chinese COMAC airplane consists largely of of imported parts.
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Minor manufacturing like Airbus? What would be "major" manufacturing in your logic? I see the EU on the same level as the US. Do you disagree? And if so, why?
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by eastendguy 5y ago
Europe has plenty of manufacturing. >I doubt, because manufacturing means missing climate goals. So you are saying a chip factory can not be powered by green energy. Why? Taiwan does it, too: https://www.evwind.es/2020&#
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by eastendguy 6y ago
For free ocr and quick prototyping, I use https://ocr.space/receiptscanning - It is easy to use and has a generous free tier of 25,000 free scans each month. Having said that, I am sure there must be some existing accountin
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by eastendguy 6y ago
Yep, this^ is the point. It is amazing that this key point is missed in so many discussions. Now.. maybe it is still worth the risk for a young 20 year old female, but I am not so sure - especially since we luckily have other vaccines tha

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