whatchamacallit

I’ve been using SwiftKey as my default input method for some time now on my Android Nexus S. SwiftKey 3 was recently released and according to their homepage it “learns the words and phrases you use” and ”predicts your next words.” Time for a fun experiment.

This is what happens when I just use the primary prediction SwiftKey offers (in this photo, the next prediction is soon). They start with, what I presume to be, a generic happy sentence followed by what seems to be an advertisement which becomes gibberish. And then it repeats. 

For researchers like myself who use Google Scholar almost everyday, the new modern look has an awesome quote at the bottom of their front page. Why is it so awesome? Well, they’ve answered what it means on their Help page.

Why are you asking us to “Stand on the shoulders of giants”? Are you really giants?

Not even close. That phrase is our acknowledgement that much of scholarly research involves building on what others have already discovered. It’s taken from Sir Isaac Newton’s famous quote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”