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I think this is just sign of active fads. When I wanted to pick a research area in 2007 multiple professors/students had told me to ignore databases. The unders
by abhgh 6y ago
I think this is just sign of active fads. When I wanted to pick a research area in 2007 multiple professors/students had told me to ignore databases. The understanding was RDBMSes of the day had solved all problems. There were minor rumblings of the NoSQL movement back then, but no one was sure if it would be impactful and/or last long. At any rate not many ppl expected the field would see so much activity :-)
Another example I can think of is speech recognition systems (ASRs). Around 2007-08 again, I was told by researchers in the area that they are not coming to personal devices anytime soon - esp for Indian accents. A few years later you could dictate messages to hangouts on an Android phone :-)
- jcelerier 6y ago> A few years later you could dictate messages to hangouts on an Android phone :-) ... can you ? it's 2021 and on any top of the line phone I'm definitely unable to get speech recognition systems to understand sentences to an acceptable level. A few words work... kinda. Hell, even typing has become harder than a few years ago where it used to be a simple dictionary - now every other message the automatic correction is completely wrong, which is very frustrating.
- abhgh 6y agoWell, passably. If you speak slowly and clearly. I agree about auto-correction though.
- PaulHoule 6y agoI tried turning the typing corrector off on Android and the quality of my typing went down... It does catch more errors than it injects.
- GrinningFool 6y agoThere was a curve. My typing quality went down at first, but as I adjusted I got both faster and more accurate over the next couple of weeks.