>I think it’s worth asking why anyone in their right mind should care about mid-century handwriting recognition algorithms in 2016.
Lots of people care, specially in Asia(Chinese and Japanese). It is just that the problem is incredible hard.
We put 5 very smart people working for a year on that, and it was totally impossible meeting people's expectations, specially people like doctors taking notes fast(and ugly).
We thought that the market was in creating mindmaps or something instead as people could write slower and better.
But people write a double u and expect the computer to see an "m". With deep learning is possible but extremely flimsy.
Lots of people care, specially in Asia(Chinese and Japanese). It is just that the problem is incredible hard.
We put 5 very smart people working for a year on that, and it was totally impossible meeting people's expectations, specially people like doctors taking notes fast(and ugly).
We thought that the market was in creating mindmaps or something instead as people could write slower and better.
But people write a double u and expect the computer to see an "m". With deep learning is possible but extremely flimsy.