In the linked article, rybett@aol.com uses the CORREL function in an openoffice spreadsheet to determine a weak correlation between autism diagnoses and sulfur content in tap water in a few regions of New Jersey.
His other publications include a self-published amazon book titled Autism, Enzymes and the Brimstone Demons. [1]
So does that mean you are persuaded or that the author doesn't have the right pedigree for you to listen? Because when you set aside the author's idiosyncrasies, there is indeed something remarkable.
Drinking sulfate won't repair broken sulfur metabolism, but it's completely plausible that a subset of people maintained adequate day-to-day function with the benefit of sulfate-laden water, and now fall below the threshold with sulfate mostly removed.
Exactly. It's the same way that having a deformed jaw, hydrocephalus, and leg braces equates to being absolute ruler over an empire colonizing half the world.
> How is this different from tesseract and friends?
The workflow is for digitizing historical printed documents. Think conserving old announcements in blackletter typesetting, not extracting info from typewritten business documents.
I didn't have good results in tesseract, so I hope this is really different ;)
I was surprised that even scraped screen text did not work 100% flawlessly in tesseract. Maybe it was not made for that, but still, I had a lot of problems with high resolution photos also. I did not try scanned documents, though.
I have never had to handle handwriting professionally but I have had great success with Tesseract in the past. I’m sure it’s no longer the best free/cheap option but with a little bit of image pre-processing to ensure the text pops from the background and isn’t unnecessarily large (I.e. that 1200dpi scan is overkill) you can have a pretty nice pipeline with good results.
In the mid 2010s I put Tesseract, OCRad (which is decidedly not state of the art), and aspell into a pretty effective text processing pipeline to transform resumes into structured documents. The commercial solutions we looked at (at the time) were a little slower and about as good. If the spellcheck came back with too low of a success rate I ran the document through OCRad which, while simplistic, sometimes did a better job.
I expect the results today with more modern projects to be much better so I probably wouldn’t go that path again. However as all of it runs nicely on slow hardware, it likely still has a place on low power/hobby grade IoT boards and other niches.
I have a typewriter written manuscript that is interspersed with hand written editing. Tesseract worked fine until the hand written part, then garbage. Is there a local solution that anyone can recommend? I have a 16gb lenovo laptop and access to a workstation with a with an RTX 4070 ti 16gb card. Thanks.
Tangentially related, but does someone know a resource for high-quality scans of documents in blackletter / fraktur typesetting? I'm trying to convert documents to look fraktury in latex and would like any and all documents I can lay my hands on.
> Mandatory binding arbitration will still be an issue.
No, because consumer laws can outlaw forced arbitration. They usually trump any contract law, so even consumers that agree to arbitration may not be required to go through with it.
For example, in Germany, any arbitration agreements must be separate from the sale/service contract with consumers[0]: "Yet, arbitration agreements with consumers require that stricter formalities be observed: such arbitration agreements must be signed by both parties separately from the main contract to which they relate (section 1031(5) ZPO)". You cannot bake one into the contract to which it relates. The seller may insist the customer signs an arbitration contract, but the sale contract cannot be conditional on agreeing to arbitration, so the arbitration becomes optional rather than forced.
Of course, I understand many countries do not have such strong consumer protection around forced arbitration. This is why more consumer protection is needed.
His other publications include a self-published amazon book titled Autism, Enzymes and the Brimstone Demons. [1]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Enzymes-Brimstone-Demons-Trill...