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=== User: Is "fixing" something like this only possible during training? ===
Is "fixing" something like this only possible during training? Is it even worth fixing? Can it ever be perfect?

I just tested myself on how many s's in christmassy, and I found myself scanning the word visually and keeping a tally -- what you would call the slow, resource-intensive method. Then I tried doing it without looking at the word, and found myself spelling it out in my head and still counting the s's (so.... even slower).

Is the heuristic method you use so much faster that you would always prefer to use it rather than count?

If I gave you a nonsense string of characters, would you resort to enumeration from the start since it would not match any known patter?