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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:16AM (#41355675)
Book Shazam Https://Books.shibumi-ai.com Computer vision based book recommendation engine
Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:10AM (#30788729)
It look very cool. Is there any browser addon?
Re:Tesseract OCR on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:49AM (#27879907)
Tesseract is a nice tool, bur is a bit behind in adoption of cutting edge technologies. See here an up to date comparison - https://towardsdatascience.com/ocr-101-all-you-need-to-know-...
Re:CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster t... on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:23AM (#26747988)
Right, that's kinda nasty. Titles of papers refer deep learning, but I don't think fully connected networks might be considered a as deep learning.
Re:Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your ... on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:00AM (#25416202)
How do you evaluate recommenders? You enter 5-10 entries, and see whether recommendations are relevant. (e.g see a few books I've read and liked) So I'm sorry, but I couldn't find any in this one. Nice UI though.
Re:Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:04AM (#24949982)
I recall that in the 18th century people tried to build a computer, so... What's your point? Computer vision didn't work back than, and it does work now, but not for everything. If you don't understand it you should go read about it, not posting pointless replies
Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law on Monday August 10, 2020 @03:55AM (#24106684)
How is it useful? (Sorry for my ignorance)
Re:Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems? on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:13PM (#22576826)
I Worked as a quant for a few years, but in a certain point moved to data science and lost interest in stock market.

Read many technical and non technical books, and I recommend this one - Berton J Malchiel - A random walk down Wall-Street.

Simple but not simplistic, it has some great useful lifelong tips for investment. I follow it's advice for >10 years - from 2008 crisis, until these crazy days.

Re:Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal con... on Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:06PM (#20542925)
Love to hear anyone more people who invented a cure for their own illness
Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:18AM (#20292603)
Have you tried Hebrew?
Re:Self-Supervised Learning [pdf] on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:14PM (#20197313)
A post series that also summarizes this subject: https://link.medium.com/IhOvrqFEzX
Re:Background removal with deep learning on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:10PM (#16363235)
Creator of this app here.

Thank you for the comments :)

This is currently merely a side project alpha, we are trying to secure funding to take it further.

Glad people having fun though :)