3blue1brownMath Handwriting Recognition
Audience:
Over the last six months, I have created a system to recognize neat handwriting as an optional input method for the computer algebra system (CAS) I have developed over the last five years. The CAS is designed to work similarly to how we work by hand, but without all of the silly mistakes.
This article has two purposes. Firstly, it describes the process I went through to implement handwriting recognition. Secondly, it is my attempt at marketing—if it can even be called marketing when it does not cost anything.
On the second point, I would be grateful for your feedback because I am clearly terrible at it. To show you how low my reach is, here are some statistics for the entire 200-page site:
- An average of 4 clicks from Google search per day.
- An average search position of 19.6 (putting it on the second or third page of Google results).
- Ad revenue for the entire site is around 2 cents per day, or $7 a year. (My total earnings over 5+ years are still below the payout threshold.)
In any case, I hope you find the CAS and handwriting recognition useful.
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Comments
No idea how to write something. Overall, a more technical report on the algorithm than an actual explainer. And, of course, no images for such a visual topic is a big no-no.
That’s really neat explanation, but it doesn’t seem to work on any Mac desktop browser? Nor Fennec mobile Android browser. It takes a very long time to load which is probably affecting your SEO.
This is a really cool project! The description of how the character-level features were engineered was interesting.
On the other hand, this feels more like a report about a project than an “explainer” about a new topic. It would be great to pick one piece of the process (like the convex decomposition) and explain how it works more carefully. More interactive visualizations would also be great.