The anatomy of a tpyoīefore we get to the code, let’s come up with a definition for ‘typo’. The point is, we can get a computer to do this. This goes on for quite some time and becomes less and less relevant to the topic at hand. You must think I’m a real nincompoop!”Ĭorey: “Well, I’ve just been to the dentist, I’m still a little flustered.” He fills it in and hands it “Corey, buddy? Do you still spell your name with an e?”Ĭorey: “Oh! Sorry, I leave that out on accident sometimes. I silence Corey with a stare over the top of my glasses and hand him a new form. What’s important is that you try harder next time.” Me: “Hey Corey, did you mean to write gmail?” (I would lean my head to the right for gmail because that’s how you say italics.) They hand it to me, I put my glasses right down on the end of my nose for some reason and I read through the fields. I picture it like so: a human is standing in front of me filling out a form on a piece of paper. That is, working out if what the user typed is close to what the user meant to type. We can do better, and it’s all about detecting typos, which is all about inferring intent. (Aw, what’s the matter, whale? Why the long face?) Good news! More than forty football courts and a blue whale. That’s over one million dollars per year. I’ve referred to my book of statistics and can tell you that exactly 1 in 1000 people will mis-type their email address, and you will never hear from them again. That red line will form the backbone of this post.
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