ivanafterall ☑️

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I think it’s a pretty common “self-medication” tactic. I went from 0 to “I consume a fair amount” pretty quickly. Initially, I used it for workouts–it just made them better, more interesting, easier to check off my list. I’d get changed, get my headphones ready, smoke, then go get lost in music while working out. Helped me get in better shape. And like the other poster, I find it really helps me to knock out otherwise painfully tedious tasks.















  • I don’t have a specific figure for you. My use-case is I’m trying to write a non-fiction book. I’ve got a ton of old newspaper articles in PDF format. The Library of Congress’ built-in OCR is very helpful, but very lacking and, in some cases, can miss large swaths of pages or generate really unhelpful gibberish that requires painful cleaning. I’ve had similar results from every other OCR tool I’ve tried.

    Thus far, in using Claude/ChatGPT for transcription of a few dozen articles, I’ve only had to fix one individual stray word a few times. It’s been very close to perfect in my limited testing. High 90%. Impressively, with old newspaper articles where words have worn away or are otherwise very hard to make out even for me, it has done a great job of inferring/recognizing, where OCR would start generating gibberish. I haven’t tried hand-writing and suspect that’s a different beast, but I know there are tools that have cropped up to that end.