Informative: other Gregg software and a modest proposal about shorthand

[jincheng-yang]

Hello Rebcabin,

I am very sorry that I did not see your message until today, more than three years late. I had no idea that you left me a message, and I am not sure if you will receive some notification from my reply.

I am very interested in your proposal. In fact, I have been thinking about this for quite a while, but I am not a programmer, and my knowledge about neural networks or OCR is very limited. If you are still interested (I understand it is quite late now), please email me, and we can discuss more.

Best regards,
Jincheng.

[rebcabin]

I'm going to be looking into ML in a few weeks via a new book called "The Little Learner." I have some rough ideas how to go about Gregg -> English, but rough ideas are a long way from "code that works." It is a serious shame that Sarman cannot release his great English -> Gregg ( https://tug.org/tug2008/abstracts/sarman.pdf). It's a great achievement but of no value to the World because we can't use it or modify it! A tragic loss!

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On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 2:20 PM Jincheng Yang ***@***.***> wrote: Hello Rebcabin, I am very sorry that I did not see your message until today, more than three years late. I had no idea that you left me a message, and I am not sure if you will receive some notification from my reply. I am very interested in your proposal. In fact, I have been thinking about this for quite a while, but I am not a programmer, and my knowledge about neural networks or OCR is very limited. If you are still interested (I understand it is quite late now), please email me, and we can discuss more. Best regards, Jincheng. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABSRR6PABNPD732OPYZWLLWWF2JXANCNFSM4INYAY5Q> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[jincheng-yang]

I agree. Have you tried to contact Sarman?

[rebcabin]

Yes, I wrote to Sarman and he said his employer owns the code and will not release it to open source. The work is interesting but useless. I estimated it would take me 3 to 6 months full-time to reproduce the code from the high-level description in the paper, which leaves out all details. The mathematical description is understandable, but it's just a lot of manual labor to reduce it to code.

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On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 5:30 PM Jincheng Yang ***@***.***> wrote: I agree. Have you tried to contact Sarman? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABSRR56B2PFPQX7J4DKXLTXB4W3XANCNFSM4INYAY5Q> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>