minerals29

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   by minerals29 7y ago

   I am an ML engineer in one of the PDF extraction companies processing thousands of invoices and receipts per day in realtime. Before we started adding ML all our processing logic was build on top of hundreds of regexes and gazetteers. Even
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   by minerals29 7y ago

   It is the best and this is one of the reasons why PDF extraction is hard :)
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   by minerals29 7y ago

   >The good thing about Scala is that it's flexible and it allows you to use it for your use case. It's always tempting to agree to language X being flexible to suit everyone's needs but I would agree with John A. De Goes on
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   by minerals29 7y ago

   Scala is a nice language but I fear it suffers from internal politics between FP purists and people who simply want things getting done with the former pulling their side of the blanket harder and harder. This alone can alienate a portion o
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   by minerals29 7y ago

   Yep, pattern matching is probably one of the main things missing in Kotlin.