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Idea:
Image recognition apps for the blind should do an OCR pass on the image first, and include any text found in the prompt. The LLM should be told not to do its own OCR and to rely on the text provided.
LLMs are notoriously bad at OCR, particularly for non-English languages. To make things worse, unlike normal OCR engines, their badness doesn't result in typos and garbled text, but in perfectly understandable and grammatically valid text that says something very different than what's actually included in the image.
An OCR pass should help "ground" the LLMs here.
@jcsteh @vick21 1. Do OCR. Tesseract or whatever, there are good models aplenty.
2. Dear LLM, please describe this image. Do not try to perform text recognition, assume that the text provided below is correct and complete, except for possible typos.
You could also use this technique when finetuning, giving it images with lots of foreign-language text, but with the correct text already provided in the prompt.
J'ai passé 4 jours à retoucher 3 photos que j'ai prises de ma tante harpiste qui va bientôt mourir.
Elle voulait des 4x6", alors je suis allé chez #JeanCoutu pour les faire imprimer au comptoir… pur désastre.
Même si je prépare du ratio 6x4 « au pixel près », leur équipement crop quand même, et ajoute de la grosse compression JPEG low-bitrate (alors que j'avais apporté des PNG); couleurs faussées, perte de détails partout.
Suggestions pour un bon service d'impression #photographie au #Québec?
It's time for the job hunt again. If you've been enjoying my posts now's your chance to see how I work!
If anyone has NY-based or remote #UX or #ProductManagement roles at the Lead/Manager/Director level, please sent them my way!
And if not - I'd still appreciate the signal boost.
Anti-nuclear activists, and a minority of the population, including many 'progressives', dismiss the best solution to climate change out of hand.
#Meme
Universal, Fuzzy Door Team For 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' Series
Universal International Studios (UIS) and Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door will develop a TV adaptation of Matt Dinniman's novel Dungeon Crawler Carl.Jesse Whittock (Deadline)
@jackf723 That's good to know. I've had mine for four years by now and I've done that quite a few times, haven't noticed a difference yet.
I feel like they'll physically disintegrate before the battery becomes an issue, they've already started doing that.
I'm not too mad though, I use them very heavily and have gotten a ton of mileage out of them.
Viele meiner Patientinnen notieren ihren Zyklus im Kalender. Manche benutzen auch Apps.
Falls ich dafür auch eine App benutzen wollt, empfehle ich euch dringend keine aus dem GooglePlayStore, denn die enthalten alle Tracker und sind unzuverlässig. Außerdem wollen wir unsere intimen Gesundheitsdaten nicht durch die Welt posaunen.
Also, falls ich eine App dazu benutzen möchtet, kann ich "Drip" aus dem F-Droid Store empfehlen.
Projektseite:
prototypefund.de/project/drip/
F-Droid Store:
f-droid.org/de/packages/com.dr…
Drip bei Mastodon:
@dripapp
P.S. Falls ihr generelle Fragen zum F-Droid Store habt:
mobilsicher.de/ratgeber/so-ins…
Oder mich fragen.
#frauen #periode #zyklus #menstruation #fdroid #dripapp
F-Droid: So installieren Sie den App-Store (Android)
Sie möchten F-Droid ausprobieren? Wir zeigen in einer Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung mit Screenshots, wie man den App-Store herunterlädt und auf dem Smartphone einrichtet.Inga Pöting (mobilsicher.de)
Welcome to the RB family, PhantomProcessesSavior 🤩 After we figured what JDK was used, and with some help concerning a missing dependency, we finally made it:
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.y…
(xposed module to keep Android 12 from killing subprocesses)
As I rework my Emacs configuration, I am reminded once again of the many reasons why I like Emacs. Currently, I especially appreciate the quality of the documentation (available not only for Emacs but also for many established packages).
Importantly, the keyboard interaction is the primary and expected means of using the application, not an afterthought to pointer-based graphical input. The documentation reflects this priority, as does the design of the software.
There are no compromises made in the flexibility and efficacy of features to cater to non-technical users of software - people who don't know basic programming concepts and who don't enjoy learning to use powerful, complex tools. This focus is liberating. Efficiency of interaction for the experienced user is a priority.
Emacs has been evolving for decades, and it remains as relevant now as it ever was. I first learned to use it in the mid 1990s, and that investment has more than been repaid. If you're going to learn to use software well, it's advantageous to choose tools that are likely to remain relevant and useful over the long run. The UNIX shell and utilities, Emacs, Vi, LaTeX and Git, among others, have all been in this category for me.
#Emacs #Linux
For the hard of thinking at the back, let's be completely clear on this, "Carbon Credits" are just another form of Greenwash. Once we accept that and stop trying to continue using fossil carbon, we can finally start thinking about real solutions to the Climate Crisis.
No amount of magical thinking is going to get us out of the Climate Crisis, until we fully accept that extraction and use of fossil carbon is the problem, and we have to stop using it now. Not is 20 or 30 years time but NOW!
Garrett: What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
What are the most common languages spoken by fediverse users? My (biased) view is that they are:
English
German
Spanish
Dutch
French
In that order. But, how could such a survey be done? A random sample? Do you see a very different set of languages on a regular basis?
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Periphery Synthetic is a chill, accessible audio dream
Periphery Synthetic, a PC adventure on Steam, is designed to be played primarily through audio, making it more accessible.Geoffrey Bunting (The Verge)
Periphery Synthetic is a chill, accessible audio dream
Periphery Synthetic, a PC adventure on Steam, is designed to be played primarily through audio, making it more accessible.Geoffrey Bunting (The Verge)
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Na samotě u lesa Fachman pan Lorenc
On teda cihlu do ruky nevezme,ale odborník je to na slovo vzatej ,To je Fachman ,takhle už tu postavil tři vily :-DYouTube
Mimochodem, ten vláček není úplně ideální příklad, protože tam je to v případě hotovosti o dost složitější a nákladnější, než platba kartou. Automat na mince, do kterého lidé strkají kde co, s nutností pravidelného vybírání, servisu, atd. Tam se terminál skutečně vyplatí. 😉
Google is headed to trial after allegedly misleading Chrome users on data collection. 🧑⚖️
This is the most recent in a growing list of court proceedings.
📣 tuta.com/blog/google-incognito…
📣 tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…
What was your most startling discovery about Google's data collection? Let us know below!
#google #encryption #privacy #data
Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode | Tuta
If you thought Google’s Incognito Mode was private, you’re one of the billions around the world blinded by big tech’s privacy illusion.Tuta
I was *stunned* to learn that Google has been crawling all over the entire WorldWideWeb looking at every webpage they can find.
Worse, they've created some sort of "searchable index" of those webpages!
Now, *IF* one has access to the Google search engine, one can search for almost any webpage out there in public. (But one must know the secret URL to access that "search engine.")
It almost like they're *trying* to collect all the data they can.
Google puts the Stasi in the shade.
Warning: Typing these 4 characters in the wrong place crashes your iPhone
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Type these 4 characters in the wrong place to crash your iPhone | Cult of Mac
Want to make your iPhone crash? It's easy. Type four simple characters into the App Library's search field.Ed Hardy (Cult of Mac)
I changed these 8 Apple Watch settings to significantly improve battery life
zdnet.com/article/i-changed-th…
I changed these 8 Apple Watch settings to significantly improve battery life
You may have noticed your Apple Watch starving for power in the latest watchOS 10. Luckily, some easy tweaks can fix this.Max Buondonno (ZDNET)
Trying to get a book from Amazon.
The first order got cancelled because of "technical/logistical issues". The second is scheduled to be sent in March 2025.
The product page still claims there are 9 items left in the inventory. I intend to continue creating new orders until the corporate overloads give up and just send it out in a reasonable time. Probably not going to happen, but alas.
I wanted to alert people that I recently received two separate voicemails with a recording advising me to call a phone number back which began with a 248 area code
at my earliest convenience. The message contained no explanation as to the reason for why I should do this and with no information about the company that was making the call. Of course, I instantly recognized it as a scam but decided to investigate further to gather additional information.
This is a classic phone scam, with agents with an Indian accent claiming to either represent Amazon or eBay. They will claim that an order for Apple products was placed using your account. They will want to verify your name. Warning, if you do decide to call back, which I advise against doing, don't call them back with Caller ID enabled as they will have your name and will even ask you to verify your address which they will read to you, which may be the correct address.
I am very familiar with how these scams work and I was not at all fooled by any of this. Those who are unaware of these scam operations who go along with the scam will eventually find themselves being defrauded of money and could also become a victim of identity theft, not to mention the possibility of having their computer’s security becoming compromised. I have since reported this to Amazon via their form at
amazon.com/gp/help/customer/di…
To be clear, this is a scam and these agents do not represent Amazon or eBay.
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Polish has a special form for passive voice, and that's what you'd normally use for this.
Most people just use English though.
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