Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.
Thank you!
Seems like a strange default, I wonder how many users actually slide to type?
Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
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Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
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Adding a text replacement from “fuck” to “fuck” (General - Keyboards - Text Replacement) allows you to swear again.
Oh nice, I never thought of that. I would love to see the list of these unacceptable words, I can almost understand it not wanting to type out "fuck" but iirc they were also not autocorrecting "abortion" at one point which is a little ... conservative
They put those various in because there was a time when it would autocorrect the other way duck would become fuck if misspelled kind of thing.
And usually a misplaced duck is less harmful in a polite/business setting than a misplaced fuck.
“I saw a fuck on the road on the way to work” in work chat is a different type of embarrassment than “what the duck were you thinking you ducking idiot” in a personal text.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#323When the iPhone launched, Apple talked a lot about how the typing system worked. What I remember is that it sounded like pretty simple lookups. As you typed, the software compared your word to, essentially, a weighted dictionary to guess what you were going to type next. If you typed “b” it was flummoxed. But if you typed “behav” it knew the next letter was almost certainly going to be “e” or “i” (for behavior). It m…
It's not just the keyboard. It's also siri.. I tell siri to call XXXXXXX. I see on my screen it actually understood me, and then it changed the name into someone else who I never ever call. Alls this "ai" stuff drives me crazy. It's just plain unpredictable. I prefer predictability in my daily drivers, and I'll go for "ai" when I need it.
Siri was great when it first came out. At some point it went machine AI and sometimes it works well but most of the time it is absolutely annoyingly batshit insane.
My current fun one is “turn off bathroom lights” will cause it to ask downstairs or upstairs and loop forever no matter what you say at that point. Then I have to get up and press a light switch like a Neanderthal!
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Machine learning is powerful in many domains, but it's giving engineers license to be lazy. I don't know why everyone isn't using NNs and the likes as augments to existing code so that they keep what already works fine, but rather, they feel they can just replace it, which leads to all the problems we see now in Google, in autocorrect, and so on.
>Machine learning is powerful in many domains, but it's giving engineers license to be lazy. The problem is that if you do machine learning, you just throw data at it to correct wrong behaviors. It's difficult to marry this with a logical approach, like dictionary frequency. Which one do you weight how much? 50:50? What if the user dislikes one of the two models more often, do you add another layer of machine learnin…
remember Watson in jeopardy? Even when it got the question wrong you’d often see the right answer in the list of possibilities it showed.
Users need a way to train/override the ML to “fix” mistakes.
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>At some point I recall Apple announcing that they had switched autocorrect to a full machine learning implementation. >For example it just tried to sub-in “Quaker” for “quality” in the previous sentence. Why?? We need to organize and get a huge number of people to start sending text messages one day, using the autocorrect as it works, and not correcting the autocorrect . Just let it put whatever words it wants in th…
> Sorry for the inconvenience caused to your order. Our customer is aware of the situation in the area and will be able to help resolve it. Starting with only the word sorry. interesting that it went down a customer service path. It started suggesting corporate speak. > Nature is a religion that has been around since ancient times but it is now being used to promote a culture of diversity in society that has not yet…
You need to get a wife soon. The machine learning algorithm will get on it - watch out for it signing up for dating apps on its own.
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Is Settings->General->Keyboard->"." Shortcut on?
I have this shortcut disabled. It still rears it's ugly head on the browser location field (and many other places).
Probably because the browser location field keyboard on Safari has a "." char on the right of the space bar. It's really annoying, I agree.
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#327Does anyone else accidentally hit the Return key too often while typing? I feel like the space bar should be longer on the right side.
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What does "raises the register" in this context mean?
Register of speak I suppose ? Formal, vulgar, technical, casual... I might be wrong English is not my first language. But that would fits nicely. I understand that as going from casual to formal, for instance.
“Raise the bar” would be the colloquially used term around here.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#329When the iPhone launched, Apple talked a lot about how the typing system worked. What I remember is that it sounded like pretty simple lookups. As you typed, the software compared your word to, essentially, a weighted dictionary to guess what you were going to type next. If you typed “b” it was flummoxed. But if you typed “behav” it knew the next letter was almost certainly going to be “e” or “i” (for behavior). It m…
In my opinion, they should limit the text fields that auto-correct to a very limited set of applications. It becomes very problematic when attempting to type words in a foreign language. Just last week I was attempting to type a foreign word into a translate box on a webpage in Safari and the browser or page kept removing characters I had entered, presumably it was proactively auto-correcting but it was completely un…
Or some press-hold-stop autocorrecting this field.
I hate when it autocorrects e-mail addresses for some reason
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#330When the iPhone launched, Apple talked a lot about how the typing system worked. What I remember is that it sounded like pretty simple lookups. As you typed, the software compared your word to, essentially, a weighted dictionary to guess what you were going to type next. If you typed “b” it was flummoxed. But if you typed “behav” it knew the next letter was almost certainly going to be “e” or “i” (for behavior). It m…
I’ll just leave this here: https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1565341723860971520
What a relief. I too thought I was losing it.