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(DIR) Post #B2TzrsWGiKy9Zbl1DU by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-20T17:16:54Z
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I'm always surprised at how little data is needed for doing something like Palm Pilot's Graffiti hand writing recognition.https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/grail/tree/main/item/src/assets.tal#L18
(DIR) Post #B2U0X7vAM9D3DI4VWa by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-20T17:24:21Z
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@dvshkn yeah, it's basically how it works. It detects only direction changes, so drawing large or small makes no difference.https://depts.washington.edu/acelab/proj/dollar/index.htmlhttps://jackschaedler.github.io/handwriting-recognition/
(DIR) Post #B2U0ZKmjV0rngoBCts by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-20T17:24:42Z
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@occult never seen a real Newton with my own eyes unfortunately..
(DIR) Post #B2U0nJ7wSaOUbMlNBo by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-20T17:27:18Z
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@zyd I hope you do find a way, being able to prototype little interfaces like this is super fun! I understand it's a bit daunting at first to figure out how to hook up a renderer, but it's well worth the hassle. Lemme know if you need a hand with doing that!
(DIR) Post #B2U2XEKiiRI50bCYYC by mirth@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-01-20T17:46:51Z
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@neauoire Graffiti is a gem of an engineering solution that recognizes some hard truths in HCI about predictability that to this day a lot of people fail to recognize (see also jamming modal and voice interfaces into every appliance).
(DIR) Post #B2U2YrYMNlDIw9MNKi by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-20T17:47:04Z
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@zyd woah, that's cool. Yeah.. ok, you're already far beyond what I'm familiar with I think haha
(DIR) Post #B2U2gu7giBNLDvicXQ by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-20T17:48:30Z
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@mirth that's really well put. I remember how at the time, when I was using a palm often, it distorted how I wrote on paper, I had to meet the computer halfway when I wrote my notes, and that seeped into other parts of my life somehow.
(DIR) Post #B2U2tJQ2UHyt9XDdPE by mirth@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-01-20T17:50:50Z
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@neauoire The letter at a time model is a little bit tedious for extended writing but adding a few word suggestions similar to phone keyboards would pretty much close the gap. I don't enjoy typing on touch screen tablets, graffiti evolved with word suggestions might end up being similarly fast and a lot more pleasant.
(DIR) Post #B2U33Q6uSoEQnm5i8e by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-20T17:52:38Z
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@mirth I tried something where as soon as it found a letter match, it restarted the stroke, like you write "a", and without lifting your pen, you can trace the next letter, but it's too unruly, I'm not sure even that with practice it would ever be usable.
(DIR) Post #B2U3NK4mbnkfsWaR96 by mirth@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-01-20T17:56:11Z
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@neauoire Yeah in a way letter at a time is a feature, the user can always tell what's going on. With continuous writing you end up with the same challenge as voice dictation where the user has to keep track of both what they're saying but also the last handful of seconds because the machine may go back and revise everything. Too squirrely.
(DIR) Post #B2VJYsm9jIoB6iMsGu by rezmason@merveilles.town
2026-01-21T08:32:18Z
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@neauoire Palm's Jeff Hawkins uses it as an example in his book On Intelligence as a system that others used neural networks to implement. Palm obviously didn't, and their implementation proved to be simpler and more dependable.
(DIR) Post #B2VvEX10imG65L2U5o by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-21T15:34:19Z
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@csepp @uep @mirth never heard of it
(DIR) Post #B2VyJhKe5iDRONNWAS by ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T15:44:02Z
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@neauoire @csepp @uep @mirth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OuCR0EpGoI just found this video explanation. It's fucking wild!
(DIR) Post #B2VyJvIKB8g4hEOrUe by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-21T16:08:55Z
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@ekaitz_zarraga @csepp @uep @mirth Oh myyy! This is really cool :eyes_fast:
(DIR) Post #B2W0cgsADtSHNUExgO by wvs@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-01-21T16:34:47Z
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@neauoire @dvshkn "$1 requires very few templates to perform well and is only about 100 lines of code" 🤩
(DIR) Post #B2WPvEykeYyNDtGPdQ by neauoire@merveilles.town
2026-01-21T21:18:12Z
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@Gregori @ekaitz_zarraga @csepp @uep @mirth I've been thinking of a scheme like this one to input operators in Orca on Playdate. I like how this looks :)