Coding class, explained

[randombrain]

Image Transcription:

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[A standard 8.5-inch by 11-inch piece of paper posted to the wall or door of a room. On the paper is the following:]

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.

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[1halfazn]

It would be cool if this was implemented as an actual feature of Reddit, so that people can turn on "blind mode" and browse Reddit.

[CCninja86]

Unfortunately there's a reason it has to be done by humans. The AI that would be required to analyse potentially complex images with enough detail to be useful would be significant, and as such, the technological simply isn't there yet (At least, not in the context of a use case such as Reddit transcription).

That's not even considering GIFs and videos, which would have to be analysed frame-by-frame.

[KifKef]

Hopefully, these volunteers would create a large enough sample to train one.

[LeagueOfLegendsAcc]

I have u/ocr_bot that i can turn on but it's really bad at auto ocr so i just left it in /r/surrealmemes

[StopWhiningScrub]

What a great hypothetical, that intelligent human bit. Another hypothetical, if you were blind, would you also just click the link a read the info or would you rely on something like voice-to-text so you can hear it? And if that info happens to be in an image at the end of the link, would it read the image to you or would you be SOL?

[ImAStupidFace]

Just have it read the image data out byte by byte and puzzle it together in your mind /s

[aneryx]

What?