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In my recent article on the price and performance of some commercial OCR (optical character recognition) models, I predicted Google’s Gemini 3.8 would cost $35.30 ± $23.70 to convert 1,000 pages containing computer printouts to text. Now, after scanning 5,877 pages, I can adjust this prediction to $34.02 ± $30.82…

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How user groups made software reuse a reality

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Before the widespread existence of software repositories like CPAN, NPM, and PyPI, developers seeking to reuse an existing algorithm or library of routines would either check books or journals for code, or, they just might post a classified ad: