Nerdsnipe confirmed :)
Claude Opus came up with this script:
It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output:
(I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)
Claude Opus came up with this script:
It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output:
(I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)
https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2012/dubin-breast-...
https://www.businessinsider.com/dubin-breast-center-benefit-...
Even names match up, but oddly the date is different.
It includes screenshots of what looks like an expanded document for the event.
Why relevant? I found it by searching the archive for "DBC". There were references to "Dubin", then I found the rest online easily. All that extra text could have helped with decoding the base64 text
There was a time when the guy making the cannon had to sit on top of it for the first shot. Perhaps this kind of policy could be adapted to other situations aswell.
Take the job to guard epstein? take the consequences when things go wrong.
Protect criminals? take the very real consequences if found out
For a while, my pet conspiracy theory was that this was Epstein's real cause of death: a lynching by a prison guard made to look like suicide.
I never took it too seriously, because no actual evidence; now I'm more inclined to think it was a coconspirator hoping it would mean no more evidence getting out.
All it takes is a single actor paying off some guards to ‘fall asleep’, a camera to be disabled, and a 15 minute window of opportunity. It’s much more probable than something like the US Government planning 9/11 and somehow keeping thousands of co-conspirators silent.
I don’t really spend a whole lot of time thinking about it since as you said, we’ll never know for sure. It just seems at least probable if he actually did have kompromat on powerful people.
The noose they found in his cell was not the thing that strangled him. If he wasn't murdered then they faked his death.
She's a medical doctor, who became amnesic when on the stand for Maxwell's case
>Pressed about gaps in her memory, Dubin told the court: "It's very hard for me to remember anything far back and sometimes I can't remember things from last month. My family notices it. I notice it."
Any chance you could share a screenshot / re-export it as a (normalized) PDF? I’m curious about what’s in there, but all of my readers refuse to open it.
which uses this Rust zlib stream fixer: https://pastebin.com/iy69HWXC
and gives the best output I've seen it produce: https://imgur.com/itYWblh
This is using the same OCR'd text posted by commenter Joe.
Xerox would like a word.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815
Point being, "correcting" to "correct looking" may be worse than just accepting errors. Errors are often clearly identified by humans as a nonsense word. "Correcting" OCR can result in plausible, but wrong results that are more difficult for the human in the loop to identify.
So yes, the "fixed" output has errors, but it’s not hallucinating details like an LLM, nor is it trying to produce output that conforms to any linguistic or stylistic heuristics.
The phrase "correcting similar OCR'd PDFs" should have been "correcting similar OCR'd base 64 representations of PDFs".