ykampittaja

An anecdote on MacOS Spotlight and learning algorithms: I never started Chrome browser with it, because it was already running and never shut down. Then I (once!) started the chess game with Spotlight. Fast forward half a year, and Firefox had became my preferred browser. Chrome was no longer running always. However, Every Single Time I now try to start Chrome using Spotlight this happens: Type 'C', press enter and Chess starts up. Shut down Chess, carefully type 'Ch' and wait for Chrome to appear on the list.

It is hard to learn predictive input when you cannot know if the predicted end result was actually what the user wanted.

Reminds me of a discussion I heard:

Customer: the phone complains memory is full. Rep: ok there is probably a memory leak. Customer: no, it cannot be leaking since it is full!