It reminds me of Bref shorthand and autohotkey:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/comments/esjhdk/bref_shor...
Show HN: I automated half of my typing
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Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious what kind of work you are doing where WPM is a limiting factor. I’m in software, like a lot of people here, so being able to type in speed is rarely the limiting factor. Besides stenographers, the only other line of work off the top of my head that needs this kind of speed are people who are paid to write subtitles for TV shows and movies in another language. Which I guess is just another form of stenography,…
> I’m in software, like a lot of people here, so being able to type in speed is rarely the limiting factor I think of typing speed in coding the same way I think of cardio in boxing – it won’t win you the round, but the lack of it can easily lose you the round. You want topping to feel seamless and reliable. Whatever you think should come out on the keyboard reliably and without friction. Any time you have to stop an…
Indeed, being able to type quickly is invaluable in minimizing the time your mind is blocked from continuing onwards.
Or, in general, being able to use keyboard quickly. I've seen a lot of people who, when troubleshooting some issue in a SSH session, are v e r y s l o w in shell (quick sequence of little tasks like: type a command, find a particular command in your recent shell history, bring it back up, change something in it, navigate to a different directory, grep some log output).
If even the simplest of those tasks takes you a few seconds, you risk losing the train of thought.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#253I aspire to reach 300 wpm at some point like Rocket has https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no99cJBwqdk
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the universal version of this stenotype?
More or less, yeah. There are different stenography systems, each with their own shortcuts and abbreviations, but at core they're all about producing large volumes of text with minimal physical effort at very high speeds. Those interested should check out http://www.openstenoproject.org/ . A good mechanical keyboard (e.g. the ErgoDox EZ) and Plover mean the only thing standing between you and >200 WPM typing is the t…
tldr: plover turns your keyboard into emacs
I always see wpm come up for steno stuff and while it can be faster, that's more of a professional thing. There are three cool things about plover for me. One you get to type pressing more than one or two keys at a time. Two the inputs are sent on key up or release, so can take your time pressing all the letters down, and then release them. Three, you have almost no hand movement at all, so its really, really, really comfortable to type on.
once you get that, you have the steno theories to expand all the words. plover comes with a stened dictionary, but thats just for the words. you can also do phrases, symbols, emoji, macros, and more. once you start adding dictionaries, using a computer becomes a lot more fun. plover is like really crazy layers.
Now for the other dictionaries, you can do things like: https://steno.sammdot.ca/plover-basics.png https://steno.sammdot.ca/ted-navigation.png https://steno.sammdot.ca/emily-symbols.png
for these, where it says starter, you just press all those keys down, and then on the other side you press the keys listed for what you want. so for example, I can enter like ~104 symbols without moving my hands. the average sybmol layer has like 20. the crossplatform movement dict lets me move around much easier in any text field. (note that you don't really even need to know what the key names you are pressing are as its all a pattern) I currently have six other dictionaries that I use some of the time. you can see more here: https://www.openstenoproject.org/stenodict/.
any cli program would be very easy to add most of the commands to a dictionary if you wanted. for example, a basic git dictionary: https://github.com/didoesdigital/steno-dictionaries/blob/mas...
plover has made using a computer much more fun. its a bit of a hard sell for a lot of people, but I recommend trying out some of the other dictionaries to see what you can do besides type words fast. its seriously really crazy that we are only pressing one key at a time using a keyboard.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#255This seems like a really good way to make it so you have a hard time typing on anyone's computer but your own.
That's like saying you shouldn't use a second monitor because then you have a hard time to use anyone's computer that doesn't have a second monitor.
Also don't use any editor other than Notepad.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you elaborate? I'm aware of CJK input methods, but it's not immediately clear how/why you could repurpose them for English. Not to mention there are several types.
Using a standard input method editor (IME) was my first thought, too. You can create a custom user dictionary in any IME, mapping the abbreviations to one or more full words or phrases, either in bulk beforehand, or one by one while you use the system. During typing, pressing the space bar brings up a list with the substitutes corresponding to the preceding string. You can select with the up/down arrows and insert by…
Having to scroll through a list with the arrow keys sounds slower and more flow-breaking than just typing the word.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#257I _love_ to see projects like this. I was working on a similar problem this weekend, but with whole words instead of abbreviations I had made in a dictionary, and in the general case, fine-tuned on any given corpus of text. I wanted to know: could I write an autocorrect that is "fine-tuned" on a given corpus of text? Use case: I write a lot of docs with long phrases (i.e. "data augmentation"). Could I automate them?…
This sounds very similar to: https://github.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell Or maybe I am confused what you're saying. Are you trying to find more creative ways of saying the same phrase?
I definitely need to write more docs on this project! I will share them when I'm done. It looks like SymSpell is doing spelling correction, which is part of what my code does.
The "surprisal" (information theory: Shannon information) component is doing statistical next word prediction. For example, given a corpus of data in which "data augmentation" is a common phrase, "da" could complete to "data augmentation".
"data augmentation" starts with "da", and would be determined as a likely candidate for the next word because it was common in the dataset on which the statistical model was "fine-tuned".
This Wikipedia page covers the concept in more depth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hit this invisible wall at about 165 WPM that I can't just get beyond, and it kills me. I wonder how fast I could get with stenography... I see dem 400 WPM videos and they look awesome.
Curious what kind of work you are doing where WPM is a limiting factor. I’m in software, like a lot of people here, so being able to type in speed is rarely the limiting factor. Besides stenographers, the only other line of work off the top of my head that needs this kind of speed are people who are paid to write subtitles for TV shows and movies in another language. Which I guess is just another form of stenography,…
People conflate two things when discussing speed. Throughput is rarely the limiting factor, but latency can get in the way.
Being able to type out a line of code or comment very quickly and then move on to thinking about the next one without breaking flow is useful.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious what kind of work you are doing where WPM is a limiting factor. I’m in software, like a lot of people here, so being able to type in speed is rarely the limiting factor. Besides stenographers, the only other line of work off the top of my head that needs this kind of speed are people who are paid to write subtitles for TV shows and movies in another language. Which I guess is just another form of stenography,…
Typing fast is one of the greatest strengths for programming for me personally, especially when compared with Vim. It's that that it's a limiting factor, but rather I max out typing quite often, and also I have always wanted to hit 200 just for fun, but it currently feels not attainable. Some people say they spend more time than they do typing, but I definitely don't find that to be the case very often.
What keyboard are you using? If you have a good, ergonomic desk (required prerequisite), then try the Matias Ergo Pro. It is the most comfortable keyboard I've ever typed on, and I've owned literally dozens of mechanical, ergonomic, split, and specialty keyboards. Just be aware that the build quality is terrible. I had two Matias keyboards, neither lasted a year... And I type lightly, preferring 35 gram keys. At $250 each it is quite the investment. But, honestly, they are worth the price. They are _that_ comfortable.
Yes, I am a heavy VIM and bash user. I'm sure that some days I do not touch the mouse at all.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#260I _love_ to see projects like this. I was working on a similar problem this weekend, but with whole words instead of abbreviations I had made in a dictionary, and in the general case, fine-tuned on any given corpus of text. I wanted to know: could I write an autocorrect that is "fine-tuned" on a given corpus of text? Use case: I write a lot of docs with long phrases (i.e. "data augmentation"). Could I automate them?…
This sounds very similar to: https://github.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell Or maybe I am confused what you're saying. Are you trying to find more creative ways of saying the same phrase?
By the way, this project is _awesome_! My programming language [1] does OCR correction via heuristics (possible because there is a restricted grammar) but this project looks like it could help _a lot_ with improving the accuracy of the OCR output. Thank you!