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Making assumptions about the semantic intention of characters is dangerous (it falls into the category of "cute" behavior of software attempting to be helpful).
by happytoexplain 2y ago
Making assumptions about the semantic intention of characters is dangerous (it falls into the category of "cute" behavior of software attempting to be helpful). If you do this, the reader will attempt to pronounce mathematical formulas like words.
Admittedly this is a common mis-use of these characters, so I'm not sure what the best compromise is, but there isn't an obvious compromise (hence the answer to "why don't they fix this").
- alistairSH 2y agoIsn’t the “compromise” for platforms add proper text editors to their input fields (lessening the need for using symbols-as-text)? This should be a solved problem.
- rerdavies 2y agoIs it really a common mis-use? I don't think so.
- perching_aix 2y agoYes. I see it all the time on YouTube in video titles for example. Common with specific genres of music videos.
- p1mrx 2y agoMaybe you could train an LLM to recognize formulas (how else are you going to speak a formula coherently?) and treat the rest as normalized text.