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He really didn't show how it performs or the actual solution running on a screen. The time you have to answer the question is very short and his solution has to work against 1) Latency of OCR 2) Latency of the Google Query 3) Latency of parsing the result 4) Latency of running the three methods 5) Input of the Answer (which needs to be performed by a human reading reading the output from the computer screen).

Can someone confirm if it's possible to do all these in Python in l second or less?




I'm the guy who wrote the article. I can confirm this all works well under 10 seconds, so you can read the results and click the answer.




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