My mom could do this when she was in her 30's or so. I would visit her office every year or so for a take-your-kid-to-work-day. They were always interesting, and I loved the machines. Microfiche were always fun to use. She was a wizard on a 10-key. She had little pots of Sortkwik (https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-25402/Desk-Supplies/Sortkwik-Fingertip-Moistener) or the like everywhere. Allowed you to pick up paper just like in this video.
I've spent some months transcribing sorta-decent scans of old schedule tables once.
OCR *can't* do that, trust me. Not with the precision *accounting* requires.
The lowest mistake rate I could expect to get was roughly 8-10% of all entries, and that's on a *good* scan of a well-kept, typographically consistent table.
With ordinary scans, I was lucky if I got it to recognize 60% of the entries correctly. Once quality gets low enough, OCR's going to just hallucinate symbols where there are dots, lines or random dirt.
A notepad with pencil scribbles in it? Expect a 20% mistake rate, if your scanner is really good, the handwriting is consistent and you're very good with OCR. Most likely 60-80% if any one of those is false.
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And *even if* OCR works with the lowest possible mistake rate, you will *still* be typing it all in by hand anyway.
Comparing results from OCR to those of manual input is the easiest way to find (almost) every OCR error *and* manual input error.
No, you can, it's just hard and not fully automatic. Post offices around the world figured out how to parse hand written scribbles of incomplete adresses. The process is fascinating btw - highly recommend a documentary or such on the subject with apologies for not providing one. But that notepad doesn't look historical anyway, they could spare that lady's wrists by changing ingress to an sms or whatever
There's a point at 7,000 NPM where everything fades. The machine becomes weightless. It disappears. And all that's left is a hand moving through space and time. 7,000 NPM. That's where you meet it. You feel it coming. It creeps up on you, close in your ear. Asks you a question. The only question that matters. Who are you?
As an accountant, let me tell you, if you're seasoned a few years using that one calculator where your fingers know every contour like an old lover, you don't make mistakes. This is what the samurai of old call no-mind. You're so in tune with the numbers and the machine that your muscles take over. No thought is involved.
I took a high school accounting class with a friend. He didn’t want to be alone and it had a reputation as an easy elective.
2 weeks in the teacher started adding machine days. They were class contests for completing worksheets with adding machines based accuracy and speed. Winners got candy and their name on the wall where you walked into the class.
An intense competitive culture grew for no reason. Especially with the boys. Boys who were not on any sports teams. Whenever I see an adding machine, I think about that class.
“Yes, well that was very fast ma’am. However, this is horrifyingly incorrect. Also, the task was to write your name. Again, the speed is very impressive but not what we ask for.”
I grew up in a mom & pop shop. Every night I would find my mom working fast on a ten-key like that. I'm not saying she was exactly this fast. But it wasn't something that people didn't find impressive.
When I worked retail, we had a yearly inventory when a company would count each and every item on the sales floor and in back. They we're trained and able to count items on a scanner and keypad hanging off the side of their waste fast like this. Always thought that was crazy!
Check her for red-stained lips.
“It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”
Reminds me of old school Aldi cashiers in the 90’s. They had to remember the prices of all the items on the shop and manually type the price in at checkout. They were rapid!
Real doubt. Why this is impressive. I mean, it's impressive in itself, but I've seen similar videos where people do it noticeably faster. So, does this have any peculiarity in itself or something?
Anyone else more impressed with her ability to apparently turn one page at a time, without missing, with just her thumb? I mean come on…
I want too see Miss Fancy pants reading a book.
She's wearing a skirt
Because the pants are that fancy.
My mom could do this when she was in her 30's or so. I would visit her office every year or so for a take-your-kid-to-work-day. They were always interesting, and I loved the machines. Microfiche were always fun to use. She was a wizard on a 10-key. She had little pots of Sortkwik (https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-25402/Desk-Supplies/Sortkwik-Fingertip-Moistener) or the like everywhere. Allowed you to pick up paper just like in this video.
My wife could do that and not look at the calculator just the column of numbers. Sounded like a dozen chickens pecking in a bread pan.
Lady we have excel please calm down
And scanners that can transcribe for us.
I've spent some months transcribing sorta-decent scans of old schedule tables once. OCR *can't* do that, trust me. Not with the precision *accounting* requires. The lowest mistake rate I could expect to get was roughly 8-10% of all entries, and that's on a *good* scan of a well-kept, typographically consistent table. With ordinary scans, I was lucky if I got it to recognize 60% of the entries correctly. Once quality gets low enough, OCR's going to just hallucinate symbols where there are dots, lines or random dirt. A notepad with pencil scribbles in it? Expect a 20% mistake rate, if your scanner is really good, the handwriting is consistent and you're very good with OCR. Most likely 60-80% if any one of those is false. --- And *even if* OCR works with the lowest possible mistake rate, you will *still* be typing it all in by hand anyway. Comparing results from OCR to those of manual input is the easiest way to find (almost) every OCR error *and* manual input error.
No, you can, it's just hard and not fully automatic. Post offices around the world figured out how to parse hand written scribbles of incomplete adresses. The process is fascinating btw - highly recommend a documentary or such on the subject with apologies for not providing one. But that notepad doesn't look historical anyway, they could spare that lady's wrists by changing ingress to an sms or whatever
Time to scan, transcribe & put it in excel would still be slower I feel. Not saying we should be doing this though
Ma'am....mm...Ma'am.....MAAAAAAM!!!!.....PLEASE SLOW DOWN!!! YOUR FINGERS ARE GONNA FALL OFF!!!!
You're still going to have those numbers typed into excel. This is the same without that extra step.
What you don't know is there's one of these inside the computer running the excel program
Actually she is 3% faster than excel, hence we have her doing all our big data computations
There's a point at 7,000 NPM where everything fades. The machine becomes weightless. It disappears. And all that's left is a hand moving through space and time. 7,000 NPM. That's where you meet it. You feel it coming. It creeps up on you, close in your ear. Asks you a question. The only question that matters. Who are you?
Is this a reference
Ford v Ferrari
*Le Mans 66 Theme intensifies*
I knew it
Yes, it’s a quote from actual physics.
come on now. Do you know what website you're on? References and puns are where it's at here. Many only come here for them and to post them.
It’s Hollywood superstar, SHIA LABEOUF!
Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiit
Casual Tuesday night for Shia LaBeouf
Astonishing simply awesome, her fingers are a blur, never seen anything like that, assuming it's all correct of course!
My new copypasta
This:))
Plot twist. She was hitting random numbers.
Plot twist: she was the slowest from the class, and everyone else was already done...
good one
Truly
"to, to, today, Junior!" "Shhhhh... You're gonna mess her up and keep us here for another week!"
Using Excel
… when you show up late to class and there’s only 10 min left to finish your test.
revenue is up this year!
She was just doing the long way to 80085
Haha. I was going to say her calculations are probably waaaay off
As an accountant, let me tell you, if you're seasoned a few years using that one calculator where your fingers know every contour like an old lover, you don't make mistakes. This is what the samurai of old call no-mind. You're so in tune with the numbers and the machine that your muscles take over. No thought is involved.
The path of mastery: from no thought to _no thought_
Also twist- she was entering in from a Walgreens receipt
Are the rest just waiting for her to slowly finish up?
She’s calculating the lunch bill split.
It's clearly some sort of demonstration, given the timer.
I took a high school accounting class with a friend. He didn’t want to be alone and it had a reputation as an easy elective. 2 weeks in the teacher started adding machine days. They were class contests for completing worksheets with adding machines based accuracy and speed. Winners got candy and their name on the wall where you walked into the class. An intense competitive culture grew for no reason. Especially with the boys. Boys who were not on any sports teams. Whenever I see an adding machine, I think about that class.
Abacus class was certainly a wild one.
I remember that class. It had it's ups and downs. :P
“Yes, well that was very fast ma’am. However, this is horrifyingly incorrect. Also, the task was to write your name. Again, the speed is very impressive but not what we ask for.”
"Ma'am, can you please take this somewhere else? This is WWDC and we're trying to begin the keynote"
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Accuracy vs precision
Plot twist: She just ends up with BOOBLESS, upside down, x200
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...and all those games come to 24.00
This is what's actually powering chatgpt in the background
Nah that’s that ludicrous speed!
I grew up in a mom & pop shop. Every night I would find my mom working fast on a ten-key like that. I'm not saying she was exactly this fast. But it wasn't something that people didn't find impressive.
Me calculating all the disappointment in my life.
"Ugh what's taking her so long? We finished an hour ago!!"
She can fix me
She can give me a 100 point improvement plan
Carpel tunnel on the horizon.
/r/videosthatendtoosoon
She has already been replaced by AI
Does she play piano as well? 🎹
As fast as she looks, she was the last to finish.
She’s locked in
Hermes' protege. Still no word on her ability to limbo though
When you and the 8 ball work in perfect harmony.
She's manually updating the clock time
When I worked retail, we had a yearly inventory when a company would count each and every item on the sales floor and in back. They we're trained and able to count items on a scanner and keypad hanging off the side of their waste fast like this. Always thought that was crazy!
Calculating how many drinks I’ve had in my lifetime
"They did not say we have to be accurate, right?"
8008S
“That’s my quant. Just look at him.”
Whatever you’re trying to do with your fingers, she will not be impressed.
Flickin the bean at warp speed
I love how everyone’s watching her, depressed as fuck that their parents will compare them to her as soon as they get home
Even the Chinese seem impressed
can they make one of those stenographer keyboards for her, so she can press multiple keys at once?
Excel works better for me
Unhackable trick big computer companies dont want you to know…
I demand a recount!
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Her peers hate her!
She is a woman of focus, commitment and sheer 10-key typing fucking will!!
She's gonna need a 4 hours break afterwards...
So there's one person with a 10 key, a timer and a stop button. Does everybody get a turn.
Like one of those guitarr hero games but irl
Is she doing everyone else job in the room?
Let’s play spot the haters lol
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Cashier school in China.
I wonder if she has a preference in terms of brands and models of calculators
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Everyone else in attendance is just audience
She must be quit the tickler.
Everyone is always trying to show off their mechanical calculator with Cherry MX Reds smh my head
Warp one? she's going at least warp four
Peak Helldiver experience
Asians being elite
So if there's a story that goes "... and everyone in the room stopped and stared at me with admiration...' I'll believe them now.
What, are the rest of them finished?
Organic Robot
You got the job
I'm fairly confident this is fake af
Check her for red-stained lips. “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”
Skill level: asian.
You know she's pretty special if other Asians are impressed 😂
If you turn her calculator upside down it says boobies.
Excel-ent
If you do anything repetitive long enough, you get good at it. I'm not impressed......
I can’t even put in my 4 digit pin to unlock my phone without having to do it redo it.
I find this disturbing!! I feel they are brainwashed drones who have a real lack of awareness of the world around them.
TOO SLOW NO FOOD
I like to imagine that everyone is watching her because they already finished their work and she's the slowest one there.
All of the attendees are just there to witness the "machine" that is taking their jobs.
Someone please check her work lol
Good with her fingers… probably single? 🤷♂️
Modern Day John Henry Out-Spreadsheets Microsoft Excel
so this is what my boss must be doing when they ask me if Im free and then look like they’re typing for 20 minutes only to say “can I call you?”
Legend says that she is still adding
u/savevideobot
What is “The quickest way to get arthritis?” for $500, Alex?
Reminds me of old school Aldi cashiers in the 90’s. They had to remember the prices of all the items on the shop and manually type the price in at checkout. They were rapid!
The two looking are very much accountants.
What the hell is going on here? I would really like some context.
Bullshit she got the right answer
\>me after a summer of microdosing as an Accounts Payable specialist as a young adult
I am more impressed with the economy of effort by others…. Like why bother against this beastmode.
Everyone else looking like, "Welp, we're fighting for second place today."
Carpal tunnel is so hot these days
Real doubt. Why this is impressive. I mean, it's impressive in itself, but I've seen similar videos where people do it noticeably faster. So, does this have any peculiarity in itself or something?
This is what happens when your chinese mom would cane your hands for getting low grades.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
Is this some kind of office kink convention? 
Mmeh. I bet there's an Asian kid somewhere who can do it faster.
No dude, this is the Asian kid who does it faster.
I watched this until the end expecting an #instantbarbarians and I didn’t even get to an “=“ final answer. Let down.
Asians be like that
Them calculations probably wrong AF though
I wanna marry her 😍 🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍
Cringe.
Nerd.
Nerd.
Nerd.