Hacker News: rjcrystal

New comment by rjcrystal in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

rjcrystal — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:52:30 +0000

One discovery I've made with gemini is that ocr accuracy is much higher when document is perfectly aligned at 0 degree. When we provided images with handwritten text to gemini which were horizontal (90 or 180 degree) it had lots of issues reading dates, names etc. Then we used paddle ocr image orientation model to find orientation and rotate the image it solved most of our issues with ocr.

New comment by rjcrystal in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

rjcrystal — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:39:50 +0000

I work in healthcare domain, We've had great success converting printed lab reports (95%) to Json format using 1.5-Flash model. This post is really exciting for me. will definitely try out 2.0 models.

The struggle which almost every ocr usecase faces is with handwritten documents(doctor prescriptions with bad handwriting) With gemini 1.5 flash we've had ~75-80% percent accuracy (based on random sampling by pharmacists). we're planning to improve this further by fine-tuning gemini models with medical data.

What could be other alternative services/models for accurate handwriting ocr?

New comment by rjcrystal in "Notepad++ is 21 years old"

rjcrystal — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 16:28:54 +0000

I love how fast everything is, it's the best searching tool, very low overhead needs little resources.

New comment by rjcrystal in "Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks"

rjcrystal — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:48:08 +0000

They're never in stock! They need to fix the logistical issues with supply.

New comment by rjcrystal in "Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?"

rjcrystal — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:55:55 +0000

I've been the software engineering game for the last 8+ and this is the best lesson I've learned in the past two years, been facing lot of health issues due to my workoholic nature and ignoring my physical health. Somehow my mental health has been good due to the support systems I have in my life and I'm super grateful for that.

Having a balanced life is my biggest goal right now as other carrer related things are mostly on auto pilot mode. I have a system set for that.

“The Science Backed Ways Music Affects Your Brain and Productivity”

rjcrystal — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:59:27 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-mission/the-science-backed-ways-music-affects-your-brain-and-productivity-e11145079305

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856480

Points: 1

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New comment by rjcrystal in "Google Cloud SQL for Postgres"

rjcrystal — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 02:11:50 +0000

I just met an azure representative in a event and they said managed mysql is in private beta right now. It will take them around 3 months to get it out if it. Even I'm waiting for it

Gitfiti

rjcrystal — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:58:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/paramtrivedi/gitfiti

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12845735

Points: 1

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“The foobar effect”

rjcrystal — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@rjcrystal/the-foobar-effect-edbb1d778183

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12720292

Points: 1

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New comment by rjcrystal in "“It's The Future”"

rjcrystal — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:13:43 +0000

doesn't anyone think about performance anymore? I mean just add more vms or increase their config, no one talks about efficient resource utilization asfaik. And there might be times where you containerizing everything is an over overkill.

Good place to start with machine learning

rjcrystal — Tue, 03 May 2016 04:17:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11617877

Points: 2

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New comment by rjcrystal in "Neural Networks Demystified"

rjcrystal — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 02:30:46 +0000

I saw some of the videos and i agree with the suggestions provided here but i really like the simple way of explaining and less mathematical more programmatic approach. It'd be awesome if you could make some neural networks with cuda or any other library like tensorflow or theano. Good luck.

New comment by rjcrystal in "Ask HN: What's your primary development laptop?"

rjcrystal — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 01:52:57 +0000

I use a lenovo z500 3rd gen core i5 6 gigs of RAM and 250 gb samsung 850 evo ssd with Windows 7 and Linux mint. It's ssd runs like a charm. You gotta love the stability and simplicity of Windows 7 plus I experiment with stuffs on linux mint which is really awesome with mate as desktop environment and compiz window manager (you can do a lot of awesome window tweaks with it).

New comment by rjcrystal in "Ask HN: What hosting provider do you use?"

rjcrystal — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 01:43:37 +0000

Mariadb (stupid autocorrect) https://asmallorange.com

New comment by rjcrystal in "Ask HN: What hosting provider do you use?"

rjcrystal — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 01:41:54 +0000

I have been using asmallorange.com they're great with support and technically. They have a no bullshit policy opposed to many other hosting providers who give "unlimited" plans but still have restrictions. They use Marian for data bases and they also give you jailed shell access to your server even on shared hosting plan that's pretty awesome.