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Did you intend to summon me, instead of the word providence?

• FeepingCreature 4y ago
  to explain: - provenance: the source or origin of something - providence: divine guidance.
  • techdragon 4y ago
    Sometimes I think autocorrect needs a little divine guidance, it is remarkably bad at correcting anything to certain words I forget the spelling off, and sometimes it’s definitely got a bias in its “most likely word” and I’m not suggesting a prejudicial bias, just a bias that’s less than ideal for me, and it never seems to learn that i never use one word over the other spans just keeps suggesting the words I don’t want over the ones I do.
    • dotancohen 4y ago
      I've caught my phone autocorrection replacing "you" with "U". I honestly believe that errors are intentionally introduced. Sometimes I even conjure up plausible-sounding theories as to why. "Engagement" is my current almost-plausible theory.
      • techdragon 4y ago
        I assumed there was learning heuristics in some layers of the software responsible for the autocorrect. But other than new words that turn up in my autocorrect that I know are new because they only entered common use or were coined recently, I generally just find the autocorrect to be stubbornly insistent on it’s likeliness ordering… or just utterly incompetent… It’s really bad at the word, bureaucracy. It never suggests this word, no matter what combination of “beuro” “beauro” or anything else my brain might ineffectually grasp for when trying to remember the spelling. I can get it to suggest it as a possible replacement when I ask spellcheck to give me potentially correct words, but the layers of autocorrect that try to predict word even if it’s not spelled correctly, they are utterly unable to predict the word bureaucracy.