Pfffft .. Russia putting Franken Tanks on the battlefield is because the Russian economy is booming, not because Ukraine pops T-90s like bubble wrap.

Goldman Sachs is overhyped and unreliable.

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Nintendo might try but there wouldn't be much substance in such claim.

I have the same experience as you do, but there's a reason that the big ISPs continue to be big: The majority of customers seems to prioritize a lower price than a better level of support.

(Also, I'm not just talking about ISPs. I meant customer support in general and how the view has changed from "keeping a customer is much cheaper than gaining one" to "cattle, cattle, cattle. If we lose one, there's hundreds to gain".)

Nice try. But let's play with the thought that there's no way we can let a rookie listen in on customer calls and gradually work their way into the role until they have enough experience.... What about hiring technicians/professionals that has been working with the products/services for 10 years?

That would be a way of getting competent customer support people, right?

And just to clarify my comment that you replied on: The problem today is that most often there's no career path for the customer support rookies and the pay is so lousy that most people just work customer support until they get something better.

That's definitively the correct way to avoid getting experienced people in the customer support.

Unpopular opinion and rant: Us, the consumers, brought this on ourselves. Not intentionally but it was a slippery slope.

No one I know did ever ask the sales representative "does your customer support answer within 5 minutes and will I always reach a representative with att least 10 years of experience, that has the authority to make real decisions?". No, but we were all very interested about the pricing of the service/product.

Then these "Please press 1 for...." happened.... and no one of us really cared about the change because the service providers offered a much lower price than the ones with customer support representatives with 20 years of experience. Since all of us went for the cheapest provider, the other ones had to cut cost to be able to offer their service on a competitive price level. So then there were no one offering competent support with representatives that knew their shit. And it slowly continued to go downhill...

So here we are with shitty services, which we pay for, where we all are treated as cattle.

If people at least started to ask for better customer support there would someone, who wants to climb the corporate ladder, creating a PowerPoint presentation with a real VIP Service Level. Of course it will cost more money, because real people cost money, but we would att least get what we want.

But no. Consumers will still go for the lowest price.

China has next to no dependencies on Russia but Russia would collapse within 2 years of China just said no.

Both Xi and Putin knew this when they had their little negotiation last year.

Oh my.... Imagine how far Putin had to lean forward for Xi to get China to deliver the essentials for Putin's war machine.

Great theory you have there.

So when USA would be doing whatever you think they would do to China, how do you think that would affect the economy of USA and the rest of the West when all essential manufacturing stops to a grinding halt worldwide?

Covid showed the world what happens if China is unable to keep the factories up and running 100%... And you seem to have missed it all because you have been asleep since 2018 and just woke up?

Unable to understand and/or admit that both sides can be bad. It's ok to admit the "your team" did some nasty shit and it doesn't in any way cancel out what the other "team" did.

Also, Winning an argument doesn't in any way make you a winner. Actually, an argument that someone "won" often doesn't lead to a change for the better or even make anyone convinced that your arguments were valid.

What's is the main topic of your blog?

How good is good do you say?

We got a pretty good results with CER at 4% and WER at 15%!

This was on a limited dataset used to test and train which most likely means that if you introduced an even larger dataset with greater variations in handwriting style for testing the numbers might be even worse.

Very simplified: A risk of a character wrong every 20th character and a word wrong every 7th word. The SER was around 20%.

There's an reason why no one has released a good model for western letters yet and why companies pay up to 1€ for capturing data from 10 handwritten pages.

It will come but OCR isn't as sexy as developing text2image solutions.

You really don't understand how Blu-ray works, do you?

Regarding Blu-ray as a medium for movies: Sony isn't able do that kind of damage.

Blu-ray Association would go bananas: