Is There Much Value In Teaching Cursive Writing?

[IBMJunkman]

The first digital watches didn't come out until the early or mid 70s. I definitely liked them better because they gave you the precise time w/o having interpolate the position of the hands. 'Is that 6 or 7 or 8 minutes after; 10am. Ah, f' it. Just try to get there early.

But the first LEDs required that you push a button to display the time. Kinda annoying.

 

[igor_kavinski]

But the first LEDs required that you push a button to display the time. Kinda annoying.

Probably to keep the battery running longer.

 

[nakedfrog]

Probably to keep the battery running longer.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Nice history: https://www.timesticking.com/the-history-of-the-pulsar-led-time-computer/

Thanks for that.

 

[pete6032]

Look, folks, some of the best documents ever, believe me, they’re written in cursive. How is the young generation going to read our incredible constitution if they can't even read cursive? It's a disaster!

 

[gorobei]

Look, folks, some of the best documents ever, believe me, they’re written in cursive. How is the young generation going to read our incredible constitution if they can't even read cursive? It's a disaster!

they take a picture and optical character recognition software converts it to Arial?

 

[igor_kavinski]

they take a picture and optical character recognition software converts it to Arial?

Can OCR even read cursive? Maybe properly trained AI based OCR can.

 

[lxskllr]

they take a picture and optical character recognition software converts it to Arial?

A proprietary font? I think not. It'll certainly be something like Linux Libertine.

Linux Libertine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[gorobei]

Can OCR even read cursive? Maybe properly trained AI based OCR can.

OCR was ai before ai was a twinkle in the marketer's taint. pattern recognition was the one of the earliest machine learning models. bank atm's use ocr to read checks and were good enough 25 years ago, now they just seem like a cheat.

A proprietary font? I think not. It'll certainly be something like Linux Libertine.

Linux Libertine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

any true font will have no margin for mis-interpretation.

OpenDyslexic

OpenDyslexic is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia.

opendyslexic.org

 

[lxskllr]

That's a nice looking font. I'm gonna grab it when I get on a desktop.