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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 1 Feb 2018
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      51. And, in the “brands I recognize doing things I don’t” department… (Also, an amazing place name in that second photo.)pic.twitter.com/iJX2c5d7ob

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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      52. I heard a loop of birds chirping in various places in a big subway station. (Sorry for the shoddy video.) It didn’t add up then, but I read now it’s a guide for vision-impaired people, telling them about the beginnings of escalators leading towards the exits.pic.twitter.com/rzQiw74zQO

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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      (It feels thoughtful, repurposing pleasant nature sounds – particularly in an urban setting – rather than perpetuating the harsh beeps and bleeps associated with technology.)

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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      53. Strangely (to me) proportioned cars.pic.twitter.com/VVGTAlyXD6

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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      54. I did it! I went to the hotel bath and sat naked in public for the first time in my life. I wore my Crater Lake slippers on the way for good luck! But also memorized the etiquette three times over: http://www.sentoguide.info/etiquette pic.twitter.com/iqlHGkuAy1

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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      55. Mac OS is better at recognizing my awful kanji than the app I used before. Here’s “big bathhouse,” the first try:pic.twitter.com/S7XB4GKh6w

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    7. Simeon.__newyear__ - BLM‏ @DotProto 2 Feb 2018
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      Stroke count, order, & direction are all very important for writing kanji "correctly." I wonder if MacOS is doing shape recognition rather than a more traditional approach. For example, check out this stroke order diagram http://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20 …漢

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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      Ah, interesting. I assumed shape recognition only. Perhaps that’s why the other program failed so badly on the barista’s “welcome”?

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    9. Simeon.__newyear__ - BLM‏ @DotProto 2 Feb 2018
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      I'd bet that's at least part. Also, looks like Twitter didn't like the kanji in my URL, here's the example I meant to paste http://bit.ly/2BH8WWz 

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    10. Simeon.__newyear__ - BLM‏ @DotProto 2 Feb 2018
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      Also for the ようこそ on your cup, if you're not familiar with the writing system it's hard to know which strokes are actually part of the word, which strokes belong to which character, and conventions like spacing.

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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      Yes, that occurred to me, too. I would, however, at some point expect computers to figure all of this out for me. ;·) Is there such a thing in Japanese as stroke shapes changing when you do casual handwriting, compared to e.g. proper calligraphy?

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        2. Simeon.__newyear__ - BLM‏ @DotProto 2 Feb 2018
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          Yeah, absolutely. Casual writing will gloss over the details of the shapes. For example, compare the 3rd character (ko) from the top on your cup to the more formal calligraphic-style font on the right. In the barrista's hand, ko almost looks like 2 straight lines.pic.twitter.com/DXAzJE6Ef4

          Comparison of the world "welcome" written in Japanese on a cup and a calligraphic-style font.
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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Feb 2018
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          Thanks! And how about these four dots at the bottom…?

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