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@mqudsi mqudsi commented Jan 22, 2022

The previous readme made it same like Jaro-Winkler was the ideal typo detector,
when in actuality it is really only suited for typos caused by unsynchronized
high-speed typing between between both hands but does not account for actual
miskey errors such as hitting the wrong key altogether or advertently pressing
two keys instead of one. This is because Jaro-Winkler operates only on
transpositions and does not favorably consider a string consisting strictly of
additions or permutations with letters not already part of the word's alphabet
to be "similar" changes.

The previous readme made it same like Jaro-Winkler was the ideal typo detector,
when in actuality it is really only suited for typos caused by unsynchronized
high-speed typing between between both hands but does not account for actual
miskey errors such as hitting the wrong key altogether or advertently pressing
two keys instead of one. This is because Jaro-Winkler operates only on
transpositions and does not favorbly consider a string consisting strictly of
additions or permutitions with letters not already part of the word's alphabet
to be "similar" changes.
@tdebatty tdebatty merged commit 93240df into tdebatty:master Jan 22, 2022
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