Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog The Behold User Forum
Louis Kessler (lkessler) Blog Comments
2.
GEDCOM Assessment - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Feb 2025
deecee: Unfortunately, Wayback does not save everything.
3.
Replacing My Photo Management/Organizing Tools - Blog comment by lkessler - 15 Jan 2025
Thank you for your thoughts on the tools you use, elguinioul.
I totally agree with you that the Digikam interface is not the way a modern photo organizing tool should work. Because of that, I have kept looking. I've tried Photools, and most recently Excire.
But for that last couple of months, I've gone ...
4.
Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog comment by lkessler - 16 Nov 2024
Thank you, Dana, for reposting your comment on my blog post. Dana originally made this comment on the Facebook group: Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) when I referred to this blog post.
This was my response to Dana:
Hi Dana. I took a SLIG course on reading Russian documents a few years ago, and ...
5.
Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Mar 2024
Hi Dave,
Yes, you have outlined several of the challenges that AI will have interpreting handwriting.
These are all likely one-day solvable, for example with regards to your point on penmanship, an algorithm may have to be trained on the writings of individual people first before it can be generalized. ...
6.
Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Oct 2023
Bob:
Personally, I would prefer a 25 year old standard that is used by 98% of the intended audience, than an "updated" standard that obviously doesn't have enough advantages to be able to attract more than a handful of developers to implement after more than 2 years.
So something's not working.
If ...
7.
Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Oct 2023
Bob (Coret):
Main reason is that 5.5.1 is supported by 98% of genealogy vendors, whereas the number who have implemented some form of 7.0 can be counted on one hand. There are many reasons why I don't think 7.0 will ever take hold. See my newest blog post Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary?
8.
Ancestral Loops - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2023
jandrea: Well it is a recursive procedure. The problem is that if you have loops, then the recursive procedure is infinite. So you have to figure out how to stop. The normal stopping method in a recursive procedure is to mark a node (person) as "visited" once they've been checked so that you don't process them ...
9.
Converting Base Pairs to Centimorgans - Blog comment by lkessler - 13 Jun 2022
Thanks EJ, for your confirmation about the issue. I came up with a new idea that I'm going to try out, which may result in my next blog post.
10.
Double Match Triangulator, Version 5.0 - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Jun 2022
Thank you k1w1. The link is now fixed.
Using AI Bots for Programming - Blog comment by lkessler - 6 days ago