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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 3 Mar 2024
Typo from my last comment. Sentence should read:
"Reliance on only one or two university professors ... "
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 1 Mar 2024
Greetings Louis.
In a pre-AI world of web-based, transcribed, census records, successful transcriptions were governed by what I believe were four main factors.
1. Census Enumeration Accuracy;
2. Census Enumerator's Penmanship;
3. Digitization Scan Quality; and
4. Transcriber's ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by paulbaltzer - 27 Feb 2024
Louis,
Thanks for the update and review of the latest Artificial Intelligence with handwriting. We are all hoping and amazed how fast this technology is improving.
Paul Baltzer
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by linda - 25 Nov 2023
I don't share Louis' endogamy but I agree that the golden age of autosomal testing is over for me too. I started in 2011 and was able to test many people of my parents' generation (siblings, cousins, second cousins). My many new matches are all much younger and include their grandchildren and even a ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by iowa toni - 25 Nov 2023
Yes. I agree. I've exhausted the matches with any sort of tree beyond 1 person which is like no tree at all. I have not continued my subscription anywhere because I am not finding anything useful. Few people know who their great grandparents were. Those who do have already been examined. After 15 or so years I ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by thebookbloke - 22 Nov 2023
DNA has been/is fun but the payoff for me has been fairly small.
Y-chromosome tests back in 2008 or so showed, beyond reasonable doubt, that my late dad's father really was his father. There had been a small question mark over that. Autosomal tests of cousins, uncles, aunts etc, with various companies, all ...
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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Oct 2023
Bob:
Personally, I would prefer a 25 year old standard that is used by 98% of the intended audience, than an "updated" standard that obviously doesn't have enough advantages to be able to attract more than a handful of developers to implement after more than 2 years.
So something's not working.
If ...
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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog comment by coret - 22 Oct 2023
Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? Wrong question, the GEDCOM specification has been updated. The current one in 7.0.
The question should be, is updating the GEDCOM implementation to the current specification necessary?
As you say 95% of current GEDCOM 5.5.1 implementations are incomplete, ...
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Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Oct 2023
Bob (Coret):
Main reason is that 5.5.1 is supported by 98% of genealogy vendors, whereas the number who have implemented some form of 7.0 can be counted on one hand. There are many reasons why I don't think 7.0 will ever take hold. See my newest blog post Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary?
Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Mar 2024