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by andreasvc 4822 days ago
What is it supposed to do? I try to type a sentence but it is immediately garbled by random words. If there were two boxes, one for input and output, things wouldn't get mixed up, or perhaps a "Shakespearize" button. Right now the edit box is not really usable because the script interferes with normal editing.

EDIT: Another note, while the references to Shannon & Markov chain are correct, in NLP this would more commonly be referred to as a character n-gram model.

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It's meant to interfere with your writing, like a backseat driver interferes with your driving. Your idea of separation is interesting, do you see it as a kind of translator?
I imagine a backseat driver shouts suggestions, but does not take over the wheel; like the way autocomplete is there without preventing you from typing something else. It doesn't have to be a translator, but there should be some distinction between user input and what comes from the model, and the user should have the final say.