stenography

stenography

A typing practice that works by mapping phonemes(ish) to graphemes (or other syntactically significant units, such as braces or defuns or funcalls) to make key-emes. It solves the problem of the huge mapping table that results with compositionality: you inflict some compositional principle upon your phonemes, and get combinatorial possibilities out of 25-odd keys that you can leverage by selecting the thing that sounds vaguely right at any given time.

Lots of incredibly interesting learning principles are embedded in the understanding of this practice. Composition as a way to cut through a large possibility-space, fuzzy matching, the sense you get of a tradeoff between memorizing and acting in the moment (well, it's the caching strategy). Related:

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