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Ever try coding a program to read human handwriting? Fun stuff.

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Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
9192
Someone check in on me in a week, because I may or may not have devolved into an amorphous blob by then.

And please bring a cheeseburger or something. Preferably grounded up, since I'm not sure if my blob form can handle solid foods.
NeverSilent
Got any Dexreth amulets?
6299
Why are you doing these things to yourself?

Oh well, here we go:

Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
Man, I'm a human* and I can't read a lot of human handwriting.

*As far as any of y'all know
Hexatona
JESEUS MIMLLION SPOLERS
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wait, isn't this like... the "Does this image have a bird in it?" level of problem? Did someone send you on a snipe hunt?
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
9192
author=NeverSilent
Why are you doing these things to yourself?

Oh well, here we go:



Too soon! I'm not a blob just yet!

author=Sooz
Man, I'm a human* and I can't read a lot of human handwriting.

*As far as any of y'all know


That won't make a difference! Just tell the program to recognize specific patterns and it can read anything.

author=GreatRedSpirit


....almost anything.

author=Hexatona
wait, isn't this like... the "Does this image have a bird in it?" level of problem? Did someone send you on a snipe hunt?


No snipe hunt here. This is gonna happen.
Vaccaria
The I in Vaccaria stands for inertia.
4936
Here comes the logic error.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
The US postal service spent like a hundred million dollars to develop this. You're not gonna do it by yourself in a week.
Yellow Magic
Could I BE any more Chandler Bing from Friends (TM)?
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Honestly I think the hard part would be in collecting sample handwriting for such a thing...
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
Not really, especially since IIRC Red's in college; just ask a few profs to solicit samples from class. Though I guess it'd fall under the same WEIRD issue as psych and sociological studying.
author=LockeZ
The US postal service spent like a hundred million dollars to develop this. You're not gonna do it by yourself in a week.


You might be surprised how accessible the means to do this for just about anyone (with a reasonable understanding of coding) has become these days.

Go find some online dataset (there are a lot of them),
Feed said data and their labels to a Convolutional Neural Network (can be setup in few lines of python)
Tweak Network to generalize as best as possible, and voila, you have a program interpreting human writing to some decent level of accuracy.
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