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by criddell 1653 days ago
You can change that.

After I started using a Palm Pilot, my handwriting improved significantly and the changes seem to have been permanent. I get basically 100% accuracy with the Apple Pencil in iOS.

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There is a delicious irony in the fact that you are training yourself using a reinforcement learning approach to meet the needs of an imperfect machine learning application.
An inexpensive bit of consumer tech. was able to accomplish something that years of human teachers could not.
The insta-feedback. I learned to spell because a little red squiggly line told me to try again. I avoided the right-click to autocorrect. Now everything just autocorrects and I assume people are more and more reliant on it.
I don’t see an issue in that, we can meet machines part way to make it easier for both of us