I have been very pleasantly surprised by the usefulness of the USPS Informed Delivery [1] program which emails me pictures of the mail pa...
I have been very pleasantly surprised by the usefulness of the USPS Informed Delivery [1] program which emails me pictures of the mail parcels arriving in the next day or two. > Today, the USPS’s OCR technology can read handwritten mail at nearly 98 percent accuracy, while machine-printed addresses bump its accuracy to 99.5 percent. > [...] it first started using a handwriting recognition tool in 1999. The USPS is currently in the middle of a 10-year modernization plan, which includes investments in technology, such as AI. However, the plan has faced criticism for raising the price of stamps and causing service disruptions in some areas. $0.78 to send a letter or postcard anywhere in the USA seems so cheap that I don't think the "rising cost of stamps" could ever even cross my mind. I'm aware that it does matter to some people, though. I will, however, be glad if it becomes too expensive for spam mailers. [1] https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm
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Fake websites pretending to be legitimate websites in order to steal your passwords was considered a HUGE problem.
3.5 Flash was always too expensive for a "flash" model.
I don't think the realistic alternative here was “hire a team for a month and get a better semantic conversion” For a rewrite of this si...
I was hosting on a PC at home like 10 years ago.
I live in walking distance of all these things, and the farthest I’ve gotten my kid to do things alone is to walk to and from school (a w...
It was a long time ago, so I don't remember.
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I have been very pleasantly surprised by the usefulness of the USPS Informed Delivery [1] program which emails me pictures of the mail pa...
I have been very pleasantly surprised by the usefulness of the USPS Informed Delivery [1] program which emails me pictures of the mail parcels arriving in the next day or two. > Today, the USPS’s OCR technology can read handwritten mail at nearly 98 percent accuracy, while machine-printed addresses bump its accuracy to 99.5 percent. > [...] it first started using a handwriting recognition tool in 1999. The USPS is currently in the middle of a 10-year modernization plan, which includes investments in technology, such as AI. However, the plan has faced criticism for raising the price of stamps and causing service disruptions in some areas. $0.78 to send a letter or postcard anywhere in the USA seems so cheap that I don't think the "rising cost of stamps" could ever even cross my mind. I'm aware that it does matter to some people, though. I will, however, be glad if it becomes too expensive for spam mailers. [1] https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm
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