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Jellypod is great as well!

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This model looks very interesting. How does it compare to heuristic-based approaches like Defuddle and Readability?

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Hey- I just saw your comment here 61 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560110) and can't reply there, so I'm replying here since this is your latest post.

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This would be more helpful if it included DeepSeek-OCR, PaddleOCR-VL and MinerU 2.5. In general, I've found that OmniDocBench is a reliable benchmark, perhaps surprisingly because it is made by the same team as MinerU. They updated their benchmark table recently: https://github.com/opendatalab/OmniDocBench#end-to-end-evalu.... There are some other models that score above DeepSeek-OCR as well that I'm not as familiar with.

Their argument in favor of this change seems extremely reasonable and well-explained.

On 2, you could recreate Axelrod's classic prisoner's dilemma tournament from 1980. Here's a short writeup about it: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project...

Another game you could try is the "guess 2/3 of the average" game.

You could make the assignment one game like these, or put a few together.

Thanks for the great advice. LotR is actually my single favorite pinball game and I've played it a ton, mostly at Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor. But, I've played it so much that I would probably get bored of it quickly if I purchased it. Twilight Zone is great too! I'm in Seattle now, and so lots of places have the new Foo Fighters pin which I'm enjoying a lot.

I've thought about buying a pinball machine for a while, but haven't pulled the trigger. I think I would get bored of one machine after a short while, and then it would just sit there. I like pinball a lot and I think the design and build quality of many of the more recent games is fantastic. But, I'm not interested in collecting machines. Is anyone else in a similar situation?

Sean's a really nice guy! More people should say hi to Sean. Let's make it a meme and totally overwhelm him!

Haha yeah we are, including you!

Hi Sean! Nice to see you here! :)

I'm quoted in the post. I agree, it is plausible that iPhones have a 90%+ satisfaction rate. Apple's claim isn't 90%, or 92% or even 95%, but 99%. I agree that 99% is impossibly high.

I'm quoted in the post. We're using Google reviews as one of several imperfect comparison points to Apple's 99% claim. You're absolutely right about a key downside to Google reviews. The limited information 451 provides on their survey methodology shows that they aren't asking about satisfaction as a yes-or-no style question.

If you want to go really deep on online review manipulation, I'm co-author of this research paper on ratings inflation in online marketplaces: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mksc.2022.135.... If you get in touch, I can send you more papers on fake reviews that I like.

Also, you can't order a printed poster from PhotoShop.