Damn you autopredict.
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Mine would just be a string of expletives.
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Mine would be indistinguishable from normal @ben_lubar posts ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is in sky. The dove drop something. The something on the pig. The pig disgusting. The pig rattle. Rattle with dove. The dove angry. The pig leave. The dove produce. Produce is chicken wing. With wing bark. No Quack.
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Oh hey, the screenshots in the last panel are from a Windows Phone, not an Android one (unless someone has styled a messaging app to look exactly the same as the Windows Phone messaging app).
Also, that result is exactly what comes up on a Windows Phone 8.1 device when you type "I" as the first letter, hit space, then select the first suggestion each time (I have never typed that phrase, let alone used the emoji in a message)
Edit: After looking up the original xkcd comic, I think that's meant to be the joke from whoever redid the last panel
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Also, I slightly edited the screenshots (made the text box smaller to fit neatly into the comic, removed the cursor that showed up in 2 of the screenshots). I guess I knew that WP prediction came from some kind of corpus, I just wasn't sure how much they might have tailored it to my own usage. Given that “I have to 💩” is apparently on every device, though, I can't help wondering if it might be some kind of easter egg?
I've tried seeding it with a few other words, and there are apparently two termination conditions: either it suggests an emoji, or it gets into an infinite loop of “and have a good day at work and have...”I'm quite interested to see what ‘typical sentences’ other apps/users might produce.
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Does that give you results? For me it's just a bunch of sports articles. Also, they all appeared to be work-safe despite the ‘nws’ tbm-filter :·(
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I think it's something that WP8's predictive text just seems to do by default for "have to", which was just some coincidence that appeared as part of training it over the original selection of message samples it was trained on. I buttume that if you frequently used "have to go" it would adjust to proposing "go" as the next word from "have to".
Someone has already realised some of the potential it has and created the WPWordFlow Twitter account, which produces more profound tweets than Jayden Smith
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The predictive text is nice, but the Swype integration is nicer.
Suck it Apple users.
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Linux user: "I want it to be free, at any cost."
Windows user: "I want it to work, at any cost."
Mac user: "I don't want to be associated with either of the two previous groups, at any cost."
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BeOS user: "I want to suffer to show how my alternative ways are better, at any cost."
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I know more than enough Windows users who download all sorts of crappy freeware programs that are bundled with toolbars and spyware in the name of getting their stuff for free.
Unless you meant FSF's definion of "free" in the Linux user description. But there are more than enough Linux desktop users who don't give half a damn about that kind of "free".
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until tomorrow...
What about tomorrow? Are you referring to the watch Apple is supposed to unveil? That would be such a disappointment. I'm a mac user since a long, long time, and any regard I have for Apple comes from that. But a watch? That would be the beginning of the end.
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Are you referring to the watch Apple is supposed to unveil?
No.the Swype integration
This.(But I don’t really care myself)
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Ah, Swype. The less software is intelligently aiding me, the better.
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Try it before you knock it. Swype is soooo much better on a touchscreen.
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Have you actually tried it? It's really good, and takes advantage of modern touch devices far better than the other kinds of touch keyboards; a touch screen isn't a grid of mechanical switches.
Not sure I'd want to use Swype for programming though.
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I've only seen Swype. I hate autocorrect. I didn't spend half my life doing NLP to get my text garbled by a bit of code that was state of the art in 1979. But since even the Highest Council of Pedantic Dickweedery seems positive, I'll give Swype a try.
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I tried swype but I ended up preferring regular swiftkey since typing the first 3 characters is faster than swyping out the whole word
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I'm sure that the swype-style input method could work with predictive text algorithms. It's probably all tangled up in duelling patent portfolios…
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swiftkey has a swype mode, i just dont use it
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Swype is soooo much better on a touchscreen.
I use Swiftkey, and it also has the swiping mode, but it's more annoying than it's worth - it's difficult to mentally switch from swiping-mode to typing-mode, and you need to do that whenever you don't have a word in your dictionary.
Plus it's hard enough to hit the keys, it's even harder to switch direction exactly where they are. Honestly, as far as typing goes, I'd kill for a damn QWERTY, or even 123 physical keyboard.
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Swype on my Windows Phone 8.1 only requires you vaguely draw the vague-ish shape of the word.