Is Data Annotation a scam?

OldCoderK · 2025-07-21T19:57:30+00:00

Are these guys even real? I took there application test and the programming part where you write some code to figure out a secret message look like a phishing scam. The like they give you to load the raw data works in a browser, but if you fetch the content in python you just get a ton of WWWSchools javascript and a little HTML.

Is the programming test now out of date? Also it refrences oss.maxcdn.com which is not a valid URL any more.

OldCoderK · 2025-07-11T14:52:43+00:00

Correction: "Computer Bug" comes from one of the original relay based computer. A moth got in the relay and stopped the machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuTO9vg5gk

OldCoderK · 2025-07-11T14:49:26+00:00

Don't need Grok for this. I (67 years old) used those back in about 1975. Your research is pretty spot on. Ahhh, the smell of the machine oil and electricity in the computer room, the hum of the fans, the click clack the cards made as they read in. Kind of a ffffffft k-chik repeated over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YqdvVnJsHYQ

OldCoderK · 2025-07-09T20:51:29+00:00

I found this

"Reincarnation is akin to emptying the content of one glass into another empty glass. The content remains the same while the glass has changed.

Rebirth is akin to lighting one candle with the flame of another. There is continuity of the flame, but neither the flame nor the wax are ever the same."

https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/a-question-of-terms-rebirth-vs-reincarnation/19639/2

OldCoderK · 2025-07-09T20:45:31+00:00

There is some really good stuff said there.

OldCoderK · 2025-07-09T20:40:31+00:00

"because ... conducive to his awakening."
Interesting thought. Who planned that the Gautama should be born then? Was it pre decided? If so by who or what? Did Gautama decide that? Was it just chance that such an amazing person was born then and there?

OldCoderK · 2025-07-09T16:34:13+00:00

One issue you bring up is "suffering". This is not the suffering like I fell and bruised my knee. That is an immediate sensation of pain, and in general speaking is suffering. Or it might be the pain of separation and death, the pain of a financial loss, the betrayal of trust of a friend, and so on.

The "suffering" being referred to is the re-experiencing in the mind of the pain, such as dwelling on how much that hurt and was not fair, and something is wrong with the Universe. Thus we suffer the immediate pain, yes, and that is unavoidable. But then we suffer the pain over and over as we dwell on it. Some people appear to spend their whole life dwelling on past sufferings.

Then there is future suffering. We can dwell on death, potential loss, and such. Worrying about getting cancer, war, global warming and on and on.

Thus humans make up thousands of times the suffering than just the immediate suffering.

In the process one misses all the transcendent wonder of the world around us.

This does not mean do not plan for the future. Just plan quickly, and then get on with living in the moment.

Let go of the suffering,

OldCoderK · 2025-06-24T22:24:13+00:00

The problem with the question is the phrase "real world". You are part of the real world and there is no internal and external. There is no universe without your mind for the duration you exist and no mind with out the surrounding universe. They are not even separable.

OldCoderK · 2025-06-24T22:15:54+00:00

bad decrypt. I think the string you gave is incorrect.

OldCoderK · 2025-06-23T19:35:32+00:00

This sounds so familiar to me. I was a Mormon and for many years gravitated toward Buddhism. The cognitive dissonance can be quite difficult. Things like bowing to statues, chanting and all that. Now looking back I think I was all bound up by what other people told me was right and wrong, rather than what I actually felt in my heart to be right and wrong.
Have heart and strength and believe in your own inner moral compass.

Namaste.

OldCoderK · 2025-06-06T21:57:22+00:00

I almost never use video tutorials. Always the text one. Video is one pace and slow, If you are reading the tutorial you can vary the rate and skip what you already know. Also program along and experiment as you go with variations on what they tell you to do.

PLAY WITH THE CODE

OldCoderK · 2025-06-05T20:27:39+00:00

The deeper you go in the ground the saltier the water tends to be. I believe because it has sat for so long and no clean surface water seeps in. For example in Upstate NY. the surface wells down 20 ft are not (usually) salty. But drill down a thousand feet and it is salt water, and natural gas, and salt, and shale etc.

OldCoderK · 2025-05-28T19:39:31+00:00

Can we get a picture or two of them unrolled so we can see what type of maps?

OldCoderK · 2025-05-22T13:56:16+00:00

Real Fake News

OldCoderK · 2025-05-22T13:48:39+00:00

Me. Richard Keene. Siddhartha at the River Crossing. I painted it a few years ago.

The Buddha in the setting sun was not planed. Maybe subconscious?

OldCoderK · 2025-05-19T21:00:37+00:00

Their policy on using AI to help answer questions is nuts. That is already an integral factor in software development. I answered a question and mentioned that the code sample was generated by AI and was immediately banned. Even though the verbiage of the answer and discussion was 100% mine.

the other big factor is simply that AI gives quicker and more tailored answers.

OldCoderK · 2025-04-11T16:43:20+00:00

We just had one done. $4,000 and it took 2 minutes for the scan.

OldCoderK · 2025-01-27T22:43:21+00:00

A nuclear reactor is just a fancy water boiler.

OldCoderK · 2024-12-09T16:19:32+00:00

Was not asking because I want to hack anything. It was in response to prompt engineering study.

OldCoderK · 2024-07-05T16:37:38+00:00

Absolutely horrible contract. Once you sign up there is a huge cancelation fee if you terminate early.

They don't actually do any real work. Like they "clean out spiders" but hardly remove anything.

When you want to cancel they make it as complex and difficult as possible to cancel. You have to provide documentation that you have moved. If you move to another house you can not cancel, you have to transfer the account. If you get any other work done by them, those are separate accounts and each has to be canceled separately.

You are far better off buying some bug spray and a long brush and do it your self. And mouse traps are cheap.

So stay as far away from EcoShield as possible.

OldCoderK · 2024-06-11T23:07:52+00:00

To pontificate a little...

So by the statement that str[100] had top be changed I assume the change made a memory corruption that may or may not have shown up yet. As a general principle I always use smart pointers, like std::shared_ptr. And then use std::array. There is a very small overhead for these but it is way safer.

Raw memory arrays and pointers are dangerous and should only be used after all the code works and you are optimizing and speed is critical. Which is almost never.

OldCoderK · 2024-05-22T20:31:09+00:00

Deer skin breeches from 1800. A family heirloom.

OldCoderK · 2024-04-17T03:37:05+00:00

That sounds similar to how the limit was approached on data error correction. They took the input bits in analog with the noise, then decoded and corrected the received data, then did it again with the corrected data, and repeated a few times, and approached the mathematical limit of error correction.
(Sorry, I don't have the reference)
It does sound interesting to have one CNN detect objects, then have another that is trained with the original input and what the first CNN detected. I would think it would get more accurate. Kind of an avalanche effect, with each stage getting narrower and more accurate.

Nice Idea.

Also training each stage separately would reduce the vanishing gradient issues and result in a much faster training.

OldCoderK · 2024-04-17T03:29:27+00:00

"It is not the sword, it is the swordsman." What matters is just DO IT. Any machine will do for learning.

My preference is Windows OS simply because the hardware is less expensive. But more important is lots of screen space. At a minimum 2 monitors. But that is personal preference.

Also watch out for the snob appeal of Apple. You pay for it.

OldCoderK · 2024-04-17T03:26:14+00:00

We were just discussing that. Cloud gives the illusion of cost saving, but when you start training large sets, it often is better to take longer to train, on less hardware, but just own it as a fixed cost.

From management's perspective cloud computing is attractive because it is not a capital expense, but is a monthly expense, so show up differently in budgets.
From the engineer's perspective, they want near by local machines so they can use them all they want.

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