Somehow something common has wrapped around to being 'insane'.
Midjourney is alemwjsl
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#42> I scroll up a bit to reread ChatGPT's analysis, and I realize it mentions "transliteration". I have no idea what that word means , so I look it up. How?
But he's paid much less than what he makes companies, and his work is important and mysterious, don't you know?
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#43Utter disappointment. The post was building up to this great reveal only to end up with the most mundane explanation. Anyone who uses a bilingual (or more) keyboard has had something similar happen to them a few times.
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#44Utter disappointment. The post was building up to this great reveal only to end up with the most mundane explanation. Anyone who uses a bilingual (or more) keyboard has had something similar happen to them a few times.
Most mysterious are pretty mundane when you solve them.
Also, for people that don’t use bilingual keyboards this is a pretty interesting finding.
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#45As a Korean, this is hilarious
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#46> It's actually insane the levels of understanding the algorithms that are responsible for serving us information have and how little we, the creators of said algorithms, understand what's going on in said algorithms. Keyboard layout mismatches are common enough that I assume Google has a layout detection stage hardcoded just like they have typo correction hardcoded. And the creators of said algorithms probably under…
Typos could be automatically discovered and indexed one word at a time by watching users search the wrong word (wrong input method) and then search again with the correct input method.
This would be my guess, query reformulations (user rewriting their query after first doesn’t work for them) is very common technique that search engines look through search logs to learn (mis)spellings.
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#47This is actually pretty common. It's less obvious with Chinese or Japanese, as the input method there usually matches the transliteration based on how the word is spoken (romaji in Japanese, pinyin in Chinese), which of course does not look unusual. For example, you wouldn't think twice about it if for the Japanese word for washing machine, you not only saw "洗濯機" (which is how it's written in Kanji), but also "sentak…
Kana input exists in japanese and reuses each letter of the keyboard to mean a different kana. So you could have a similar confusion in japanese. I believe many older people use it.
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#48I think I could have done without the pages of LLM output.
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#49> Turns out that somehow Midjourney is so commonly searched for, that Google has started serving them in search results for a meaningless English phrase that just means a Korean forgot to switch off of their English keyboard when searching for. BTW, this happens all the time in Korea, because it's extremely common for someone to type something while forgetting to switch to the correct input method. Try these, for exa…
> gozjsbtm
Hah, this comment is the top result when I searched with StartPage. There are a bunch of Korean results though.
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#50aadillpickle, fantastic blog!
I've got nothing to add there that people haven't already been saying - this was a fascinating quirk of humanity and technology. Really good full-circle adventure uncovering the source.
I'm commenting because I have to know what you're doing with your website and blog. It looks like a markdown/obsidian/static site generator. It's gorgeous and amazing. Did you write it yourself? Is it open source software?