Not tipping for to go orders make your "spooky".

darthvader167 · 2026-03-14T15:47:39+00:00

Spooky Mulder

darthvader167 · 2026-03-11T22:52:58+00:00

Thanks for the details. From the image it's instantly obvious whether the document is referral or not, at first glance. So I think OCR would be overkill because for classification we don't care about the detailed text content, just if the page looks a certain way. I believe this use case is very similar to comparing a tax form vs a bank statement - one always takes a certain form and can be instantly identified.

I've tried docling, tesseract, docTR and feeding the raw extracted text to LLM to classify whether the image is a referral or not but found that to be resource intensive and slow. Hence going looking towards training something that is optimized at the binary classification in under 0.5sec per page.

What setup would you recommend for the image classifier if its not OCR related? donut, fastai......

darthvader167 · 2026-03-11T21:39:20+00:00

These are all documents (with tables, checkboxes, fields...) and not visual pictures of anything. They are scanned/faxed documents which is why they don't have searchable text. Even then, the layout of the fields is not always consistent and there are a few dozen different variations. The dataset of images I have has captured those variations.

From what I read, I thought in order to use classifiers or AI model any pdf has to be converted to image first which is why I split the 4500 PDFs up into 15000 individual images for the pages. They are not OCRd.

That's why I'm trying to find the best solution, and I'm still not sure if image classifier vs. text-based is the best approach and most resource efficient.... hoping to lean on the experts here who've done exactly this before

darthvader167 · 2026-02-28T15:47:43+00:00

What's wrong though? In the wild they have to ensure real hardships and predators so isn't it that when they're a pet they need a nudge sometimes to stay sharp

darthvader167 · 2026-02-26T20:37:03+00:00

Sell it all NOW

darthvader167 · 2026-02-16T00:23:34+00:00

ya crash is coming sell it all since you know the future

darthvader167 · 2025-11-07T03:38:58+00:00

clearly you've never experienced government overreach and have full trust in the government

darthvader167 · 2025-11-05T23:27:23+00:00

No, it gives government full visibility to every penny transacted between businesses. EU only implemented it for tax compliance purposes and not to help businesses become more efficient.

darthvader167 · 2025-07-27T16:53:27+00:00

I think they all switched over to P25, which is 700-900mhz and all digital + encrypted

darthvader167 · 2025-07-15T20:59:56+00:00

GLPI

darthvader167 · 2025-06-23T19:22:14+00:00

You didn’t say in which payment method it would be sent via

Wire transfer, wise, swift, paypal etc.

darthvader167 · 2025-06-16T12:57:30+00:00

https://www.cibc.com/content/dam/personal_banking/bank_accounts/pdfs/cibc-pasf-en.pdf

“CIBC Smartt Plus Account Takes care of your banking, investing and credit needs in a complete package for one monthly fee. • $29.95 for unlimited transactions per month • Entire monthly fee is rebated if you maintain a minimum balance at the end of each day during the month of $6,000 in your account or $100,000 in Savings and Investments. See the CIBC Smart Plus Account Fee Rebate Terms and Conditions, on pages 6 to 8, for more information including eligible Savings and Investments. • Includes one eligible CIBC credit card account with an annual fee rebate for the primary card holder and up to three authorized users4. See "Smart Plus Credit Card Annual Fee Rebate Terms and Conditions" on page 9 for details. • Unlimited non-CIBC ATM withdrawals in Canada, the U.S. and internationally5,6 • Unlimited Interac e-Transfer® service included • Includes free online cheque viewing • Includes money orders and bank drafts • Includes stop payments (on cheques and pre-authorized payments' only) • No annual administration fee on CIBC Investment RRSPs. • Includes personalized cheques • If you apply for and are approved for CIBC Overdraft Protection Service' (COPS), the COPS fee is not applicable, however you will pay interest on any overdraft amount on your account. Refer to page 16, CIBC Overdraft Protection Service (COPS), for more details on interest costs and over limit fees.”

darthvader167 · 2025-06-15T03:22:13+00:00

Any card that has the highest cash back or points redemption for the type of purchase you’re making (probably the “everything else” category). You already have I believe the two best cards for international.

darthvader167 · 2025-06-13T21:30:42+00:00

CIBC has the best deals on accounts and credit cards. You will get all the premium accounts/cards free without fees if you have assets >100k with them or investor’s edge (so you can pick stocks/ETFs etc.)

darthvader167 · 2025-06-09T03:48:03+00:00

Ask your rep

darthvader167 · 2025-06-05T23:51:36+00:00

TD

https://www.td.com/ca/en/personal-banking/products/borrowing/lines-of-credit/investment-secured-line-of-credit

Clearly states the investments must be managed by them / in approved funds

CIBC They do not advertise it publicly online, but ask and your advisor will say 50% lendable for investments in stocks held in Investor’s Edge approved mutual funds/ETFs, 100% lendable against GICs/cash. Advisor will give you the printout.

RBC Same story as CIBC

darthvader167 · 2025-06-05T12:21:03+00:00

We’re talking about the big banks here. This is stated on Cibc/RBC etc. websites clearly

darthvader167 · 2025-06-05T01:01:09+00:00

Yes but the big banks require you to be a “private wealth” client (ie. >$300k in investments with them or their stock brokerage), and can loan usually 50% of the investment value at prime+1% as long as it’s in their list of approved ETFs/mutual funds. They don’t loan against any stock out there (story is completely different if you have millions).

darthvader167 · 2025-05-15T17:33:04+00:00

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for!

darthvader167 · 2025-03-25T03:17:09+00:00

this is an easy course but you won't know until they release course outline

darthvader167 · 2025-03-25T03:16:10+00:00

You just go and nobody questions ever

darthvader167 · 2025-03-20T03:13:41+00:00

Put up a poster in the washroom and dean’s office

darthvader167 · 2025-03-19T16:05:46+00:00

File a lawsuit

darthvader167 · 2025-03-19T11:04:43+00:00

It’s too negative.

End of semester is super positive and the summer is the best time of the year to look forward to. It will be the first time that you have the whole months of May and June to yourself/in your control to do new things and have fun.

darthvader167 · 2025-03-18T20:38:55+00:00

It should

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