
175 - Apocalypse Later
Not So Standard Deviations
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How to OCR a Reader to Get Data From a Data Set
"I had all this data and it was all trapped. And I was like, it was this big to do," he says. "So I went in with an idea for a solution, which was to OCR to take photos of the screen and then OCR it." The code worked but when you take a picture of an LCD, there's like all this static and it was reading the static as Chinese characters or something else that didn't make any sense. He eventually got R codes from GPT so he could hack his way into the system by looking at images instead of just taking pictures.
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