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Re:Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense by mattigames on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:16PM (#23999890)
The universal symbol for correcting misspellings is an asterisk and then the correct spelling, not quotes.
Re:Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense by joshu on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:57PM (#24000417)
s/The universal symbol/The symbol I am familiar with/
Re:Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense by mattigames on Thursday July 30, 2020 @05:01PM (#24002811)
Aside from being the symbol I'm familiar with is also the one used most than any other, check any screenshots of people correcting each other online and tell me what is the most used one: https://www.google.com/search?q=grammar+nazi+screenshot&tbm=...
Re:Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense by joshu on Friday July 31, 2020 @01:53AM (#24006090)
google image search will mostly only show stuff that has been around relatively recently - since google image search started. i was using something like instant messenger before there was a google.
Re:Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense by mattigames on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:04AM (#24017448)
I'm 31, I used asterisk to denote word correction on MSN messenger, as many did too: https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/a4oybq/the_use_o...
Re:Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense by joshu on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:13PM (#24127400)
What is your point? Your experience is not universal.