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Peter Nencka 📊

@peternka
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Joined December 2008
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Haiku 5.5 is very very good at handwriting recognition. It is now the frontier inexpensive option for our historical handwriting recognition benchmark opencensus.us/check/standing…
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Ryan Hill@RyanReedHillSep 28
Imagine you're a kid growing up in 1910. You happen to live next door to a doctor. Are you more likely to become a doctor by 1940 than your friend Carl, who lives 5 doors down? Our new paper suggests that yes, by about 30%!
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Apply! Tell your friends! Have them also tell their friends!
Jim Flynn (@jim_flynn9) profile pictureJim Flynn@jim_flynn9Sep 28
We are hiring 2 tenure-track applied micro AP roles @Miami_Econ! One in health One more general applied micro Come join a dynamic department in a beautiful college town, less than an hour from Cincinnati.
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Analogous to the partnership with refine.ink, journals should team up with pangram and provide an AI overview for all submissions and referee reports
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At the Economic History Association meetings this weekend in St Louis if anyone wants to chat about this! (or anything really)
Peter Nencka 📊 (@peternka) profile picturePeter Nencka 📊@peternkaSep 17
🚨 Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with @EzraKarger We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data 2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here: opencensus.us
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aside: it's interesting that Google has basically the whole frontier for handwriting transcription in our application
Peter Nencka 📊 (@peternka) profile picturePeter Nencka 📊@peternkaSep 17
Replying to @peternka
Here's how the models are doing so far relative to their cost, both on the overall sample and in "hard" fields where context is key
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🚨 Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with @EzraKarger We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data 2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here: opencensus.us
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Thanks also to our all-star list of contributors and advisors. We are trying to make this the broadest possible team If you want to help, let us know! opencensus.us/get-involved
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PS -- this is not a replacement for IPUMS! Their data is amazing, cleaned up, and available for all years. We are focusing on a pipeline to create open data that can be used by everyone to improve and expand existing datasets
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