Monday, July 31, 2023

Chat Solves Cryptic Notes

 I was looking at meeting notes - which I usually type with my "second brain" while being part of a teleconference.    I had a string of nonsense letters, which I deleted, then I thought, let's try CHAT.

t becl,am somce Mpv,eber

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This is a string of text in a memo I wrote.  Apparently, my fingers were displaced on a QWERTY keyboard.  If so, can you deduce what I meant to type?  t becl,am somce Mpv,eber

ChatGPT

From your description, it sounds like your fingers were shifted one key to the right on a QWERTY keyboard when you typed the message.

Here is how the keyboard looks:


If we shift each character one key to the left, your intended message would be:

``r aebskn do,ce Lov,edq`

This still does not make any sense. Perhaps there was another shift? 

A common mistake is to shift one key to the left, which would look like this: [keyboard]

When we apply this shift to your text, the intended message seems to be:

I became some November

This makes sense and could be what you intended to write


OK, it is still a typo, but clearly I was shifted one key to the left.