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Month: August 2018

Mea Culpa and A Left-handed Letter

Mea Culpa first. The Poiesis blog had slowed down during the summer, mainly due to unfortunate injury to my right hand, which in turn first stalled and then slowed my typing and writing.  I will be gradually back to the intended pace. The “break”, however, revealed few observations: (1) The volume of textual communication (emails, texts, notes) are written without much thought. Writing polite and laconic responses is hard! (2) How AI on voice-activated typing is still behind the curve for voices with accents!  For short phone messages and texts, the voice app was fine.  For longer word documents, the voice-activated typing was awkward and slow, but doable. For typing technical documents (latex, programming codes), one might as well think…

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