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cherryteastain · 7 days ago
The part about bad Keras<->Tensorflow.js interop is classic Tensorflow. Using TF always felt like using a bunch of vaguely related tools put under the same umbrella rather than an integrated, streamlined product.

Actually, I'll extend that to saying every open source Google library/tool feels like that.

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Dachande663 · 7 days ago
Semi-related but I needed a CAPTCHA on my site[0] mainly to block comment form spam and settled on repurposing a fun method I’d seen before. Is definitely not foolproof (or hard at all), but I really liked making it.

[0] https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/contact

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bawolff · 7 days ago
There is a reason why people moved away from distorted text based captcha. We are basically at the point where computers are better at them then humans.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot14/woot14... is a paper on the subject i think is really interesting

However a surprising amount of text based captchas can be solved in a few line shell script of, using imagemagik to convert to greyscale, dilate and undilate, then pass to teserract

However there are also sites like https://2captcha.net , so really captchas are more like putting a small min amount of effort.

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mieko · 7 days ago

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antirez · 7 days ago
Appropriate response by 4Chan to this: simplify the human work given that anyway it's simple to solve via NNs. We are at a point where designing very hard captchas has high probabilities to increase the human annoyance without decreasing the machine solvability.

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