From: julio@diegidio.name   
      
   On Friday, 17 December 2021 at 22:10:00 UTC+1, Themi wrote:   
   > On 12/17/2021 2:38 AM, Julio Di Egidio wrote:    
   > > On Friday, 17 December 2021 at 07:44:26 UTC+1, Themi wrote:    
   > >    
   > >> Recently I stumbled across a video of someone typing very fast on a    
   > >> standard query keyboard using the "charachorder lite" keyboard. Now,    
   > >    
   > > Sure, nice advertisement...    
   > >    
   > >> myself", and then my second thought was "wait what about anagrams??".    
   > >    
   > > At a quick glance, looks like the T9 for mobile phones or e.g. search   
   suggestions when you start typing in the browser, and similar: it also means   
   it has to keep some kind record of past entries, i.e. of anything typed   
   including logins, passwords and    
   bank account numbers, so 'd be more curious to know how they handle that.    
   > >    
   > > That said, there certainly is room for creative approaches to computer   
   keyboards: it is well known that qwerty and similar are the opposite of   
   ergonomic/effective...    
   >    
   > I'm definitely not advertising haha, I'm questioning if this product    
   > even works. I found it on kickstarter which makes it super questionable    
   > in my opinion since I've seen so many projects from there fall on their    
   > face in the past.   
      
   I find the very mission objectionable: "to elevate average human text   
   transmission speed (40 wpm) above and beyond average human text comprehension   
   speed (250 wpm)".  Why do we even need that if not along the way of the   
   extinction of thinking?  More    
   concretely, isn't at that point rather speech recognition and beyond the way   
   to go?   
      
   > This probably isn't something that warrants using ai then    
   > now that I think about it, I could certainly try and use a simple    
   > "frequently used" algorithm that maybe takes into account the context of    
   > the previous few words like suggestions on mobile phone keyboards do. I    
   > think I may try that out.    
      
   That's often good enough already.  Yet don't discount ML as it's doing great   
   in the realm of next word prediction up to automatic writing, with very good   
   results over relatively limited computing resources.   
      
   > Maybe using standard chording software where you define what keys    
   > correlate to what words more of the move here since you won't end up    
   > typing words you didn't expect to like it seems like you may using a    
   > system like CharaChorder is.   
      
   By the videos, it rather seems it's exactly like changing a word in T9.    
   Rather, good luck learning yet another "bag of tricks".  And when you borrow   
   your friend's PC, back to square one?  But I guess a subcutaneous chip with   
   Bluetooth interface    
   connecting to an onboard universal device might solve even that...   
      
   Julio   
      
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