Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by noobermin on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:08AM (#33257529)

Machine learning is powerful in many domains, but it's giving engineers license to be lazy. I don't know why everyone isn't using NNs and the likes as augments to existing code so that they keep what already works fine, but rather, they feel they can just replace it, which leads to all the problems we see now in Google, in autocorrect, and so on.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by carlmr on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:54AM (#33258271)

>Machine learning is powerful in many domains, but it's giving engineers license to be lazy.

The problem is that if you do machine learning, you just throw data at it to correct wrong behaviors. It's difficult to marry this with a logical approach, like dictionary frequency. Which one do you weight how much? 50:50? What if the user dislikes one of the two models more often, do you add another layer of machine learning here?

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by bombcar on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:18AM (#33261697)

remember Watson in jeopardy? Even when it got the question wrong you’d often see the right answer in the list of possibilities it showed.

Users need a way to train/override the ML to “fix” mistakes.

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