My experience is different. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, but I never took medicine. I took amphetamines recreationally at uni, and the sense of calm and focus and relaxation it gives you is quite material. I think it stimulates the part of the brain that enables you to focus and relax.
I did briefly see a psychiatrist and took amphetamines under his care, but ultimately decided that I didn't want the hassle of medical supervision, so preferred non-medical treatments.
But the experience made clear to me that meds do have a role. I suppose I use coffee as a mild stimulant. Although it's so mild, I'd never really think of it in that way.
I'm definitely cheap when it comes to software costs, and I'm guilty of paying for big bills of mud.
This is completely different though. In the past I'd always go back to paid SaaS when the mud broke apart.
Not true for the past 18 months for me, I am developing features, maintaining code, all via natural language to a much higher standard than I've ever had in my business before.
A low bar, perhaps, but it's definitely not the same.
I think there's different markets though, it's not just the enterprise market, is it? There's a huge market where security audits are not as important.
Personally, for my small business. I've replaced £500 Zapier subscription, £100 Todoist subscription, and I only haven't replaced the rest because I feel like there's not a huge rush. And it's been six months and nothing has fallen apart yet.
You might not think small business is relevant, but it absolutely is.
it's definitely pointless over the age of 40. mostly pointless prior to that too. a 20 year old listening with young ears is hearing vastly better audio
It sounds like a job where one pass might also be a viable option. Until you do the manual review you won't have a full sense of the time savings involved.
Good idea. I’ll try modifying the prompt to transcribe, identify the language, and translate if not English, and then return a structured result. In my spot checks, most of the errors are in people’s names and if the handwriting trails into margins (especially into the fold of the binding). Even with the data still needing review, the translations from it has revealed a lot of interesting characters as well as this little anecdote from the minutes of the June 6, 1941 Annual Meeting:
It had already rained at the beginning of the meeting. During the same, however, a heavy thunderstorm set in, whereby our electric light line was put out of operation. Wax candles with beer bottles as light holders provided the lighting.
In the meantime the rain had fallen in a cloudburst-like manner, so that one needed help to get one's automobile going. In some streets the water stood so high that one could reach one's home only by detours.
In this night 9.65 inches of rain had fallen.
One discovery I've made with gemini is that ocr accuracy is much higher when document is perfectly aligned at 0 degree. When we provided images with handwritten text to gemini which were horizontal (90 or 180 degree) it had lots of issues reading dates, names etc. Then we used paddle ocr image orientation model to find orientation and rotate the image it solved most of our issues with ocr.
I did briefly see a psychiatrist and took amphetamines under his care, but ultimately decided that I didn't want the hassle of medical supervision, so preferred non-medical treatments.
But the experience made clear to me that meds do have a role. I suppose I use coffee as a mild stimulant. Although it's so mild, I'd never really think of it in that way.
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