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QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid! (lazysoci.al)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whether you, like me, beleive that QAZWSX keyboards make far more sense, especially in a machine learning world, I think we all agree a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys doesn't make sense in modern society on modern devices.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is a QAZWSX keyboard (couldn't figure it out by web search), and what does keyboard layout have to do with machine learning? I'm genuinely curious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just an alternative keyboard layout

I broke the concept down in more detail here https://lazysoci.al/comment/9715945

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for replying. It sounds like you basically get two (or some number well below one keys per character) keys and the set of possible characters gets somehow distributed between the two "real" keys, then the keyboard uses a predictive algorithm based on previous input to guess which keys were meant to be pressed.

IMO I'd be willing to try out an implementation of such an idea so long as I could run the predictive algorithm locally on my phone. I do think that current autocorrect + predicting which keys were pressed would require a lot more training data than just a generic autocorrect to get it working sensibly, and I think it would take a lot longer to converge to the user's "style" if it ever does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I absolutely think it has to be a local implementation. Especially with all these new processors with their AI benefits. Qualcomm T2000 with built in Skynet. I'm taking the piss, but the latest chip announcement was similar.