WhyDoSpacesBetweenWordsExistInEnglish? EveryoneCanReadThisWhoSpeaksEnglish. ProperNounsCanBeAllCapsLike:
MyNameIsJOHN.
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What you doing with all that free space you've saved?
Running arweave and storing other people's stuff lol
What's the payoff with arweave? You get paid per GB?
No I'm kidding, but I want to integrate it into s9!
Spaces are a relatively new feature of written text, and I'd rather keep them than go back.
"[...] the task of separating the words in continuous written text, which for half a millennium had been a function of the individual reader’s mind and voice, became instead a labor of professional readers and scribes. The separation of words (and thus silent reading) originated in manuscripts copied by Irish scribes in the seventh and eighth centuries but spread to the European continent only in the late tenth century [...]"
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/space-between-words
Expensive that though, 20 wpm (from 1000 + without the cost of eye movement )
Spritz fixes this
https://codepen.io/keithwyland/pen/yLyLNz
No idea why this isnt used in more mobile apps that deliver long form.
It is cool to think of text without spaces as analogous to a unique number. As in each of Shakespeare’s works or any unique block of text is a number with no spaces.
The “better” the text the more directly it speaks to that which resonates with beauty inside us, or put another way, the shorter the distance to some aspect of our human “kernel.”
Much like bitcoin’s difficulty target selects for smaller and smaller numbers, human culture (ideally) selects for art with shorter and shorter distances to the essential human ethos.
The hash function is the artist, art is the output of the hash function, humans’ attraction to beauty is the difficulty target, culture is the difficultly adjustment, attention (mapped across the ages) is the block reward, memes are bitcoin ect..
all codes need a scheme of separators, it's true that they can just be a series of symbols with no spaces but this only really works for humans if the groupings that make a grapheme are clear, so we have spaces for alphabets, and there is a small separation between pictographic writing which contrasts with alphabetic cursive writing
human brains can't recognise more than 3 objects as a group, in order to recognise larger groups of items you have to develop chunking techniques that split the groups, 2 and 2, 2 and 3
You're doing exactly the same - introducing a visual separation between words - just with a much worse UX.
The blank space separator was a great invention, as are all the other punctuation marks. You're extremely unlike to improve them.
is has of text with spaces different from the one without ?
I mean , do hashing functions remove the spaces before running the hashing algo ?
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space is more effective in typing than capitalizing each word .. other than that it is a matter of protocol.. you can use any which way if everyone agrees to it 😉 . ..the keyword is everyone