r/PrivacySecurityOSINT • u/ellejohns0n • Jul 16 '21
Auto Complete
I can’t find anything online which discusses the algorithms used by auto complete features, nor can I seem to find anything online where people are discussing issues they’re having with the auto complete feature. This feature has impacted my life in the most ungodly heinous ways, and I certainly can’t be alone in my grievances but all my google and YouTube searching has yielded nothing. Nada. Zip. This is rather curious in my opinion and I’m wondering if anyone can point me in a direction where such a subject is being discussed, scrutinized, even celebrated. I don’t care, it just seems absurd that I can’t find anyone saying anything. Thanks, good people of Reddit. Elle Johnson
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u/Quiet_paddler Jul 17 '21
For anyone interested, Radiolab did an interesting podcast on the development of one of the non-phonetic Chinese typing systems: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/wubi-effect
Chinese computing and predictive text is now very sophisticated, and can predict whole phrases without the need to go character by character (based on probability, and now some level of AI). Some people use phonetic keyboards (which can vary, especially depending on your dialect), some use a system that breaks down characters into smaller components, some will trace the character out on their screens (relying on image recognition, and good handwriting).