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dessalines@lemmy.ml Joined: 2019-04-17

On desktop, I use the AI-designed Halmak Keyboard, and its had great results.

Rather than manually picking letter positions, Halmak was designed by an evolutionary algorithm, based on a given set of criteria, and sample text.

I designed the original english thumb-key layout manually, with trial-and-error, and based essentially on 3 criteria:

Letter frequency
Alternating thumbs
Thumbs come from the bottom corners, so lower and edge tiles are easier than higher.

But I did not take into account things like digrams / trigrams, and I don't know enough about evolutionary algorithms to do it.

Would anyone be interested in tackling this problem?

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

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