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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by ChuckMcM on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:10PM (#15011679)
It was probably a clang->land auto correct on a phone. It used to be I only had to worry about my fingers hitting the wrong keys, now I have to worry about my computer not believing that what I wanted to type was what I actually typed.
Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by melling on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:24PM (#15011878)
My mistake. I skimmed over the word "Land" without really noticing it.

Add voice dictation and things get even weirder. A lot of times it's magical with some crazy word thrown in.

Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by ChuckMcM on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:39PM (#15012051)
Agreed on the voice thing. I've found some really odd sound alikes in my comments when I've used it (trust me it sucks to type a long response on a phone keyboard :-) A common one is substituting 'by' and 'buy' at different times.
Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by mikeash on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:40PM (#15012651)
It's always fun to try to dictate "wreck a nice beach." It's such a classic example of sound-alikes gone wrong that it seems engines go out of their way to interpret it as "recognize speech" unless you take extreme measures.
Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by chris_7 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:52PM (#15019917)
That would be a weird autocorrect, since clang is an actual word.