Comments on: Ultrafast thumb-only keyboard http://mendicantbug.com/2007/09/28/ultrafast-thumb-only-keyboard/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alexandre Rafalovitch http://mendicantbug.com/2007/09/28/ultrafast-thumb-only-keyboard/#comment-263 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:09:53 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/09/28/ultrafast-thumb-only-keyboard/#comment-263 That does sounds pretty lame, especially to assume that they are the first.

For example of no-hands entering method (has to be even cooler, right?), see Dasher: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/

]]> By: Jason Adams http://mendicantbug.com/2007/09/28/ultrafast-thumb-only-keyboard/#comment-128 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:19:47 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/09/28/ultrafast-thumb-only-keyboard/#comment-128 Also, to clarify, the bigram generation part looks a little better in that some of the letter combinations look slightly more like English. I don’t mean to say that it actually looks decent. The data I used to generate the distribution was much too small to build even a basic bigram model.

]]> By: Jason Adams http://mendicantbug.com/2007/09/28/ultrafast-thumb-only-keyboard/#comment-127 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:18:01 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/09/28/ultrafast-thumb-only-keyboard/#comment-127 An annoying thing about this code plugin for wordpress is the fact that it converts &nbsp; into spaces but converts < into &lt;. So to get this code to work you will have to change the &lt; in the code above to <.

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