alt Hacker NewsSelf-hosted LanguageTool server[0] with browser addon. 18 gigabytes of n-gram data plus machine learning models. You can catch tpyos on 64K of RAM, but not any deep grammar mistakes, un-idiomatic phrases, or mistakes in common proper names.
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thatonehack • yesterday at 5:24 PM
Sounds like a lot of heavy lifting for something that is maybe slightly better than spell checking 25 years ago.
SSLy • yesterday at 5:14 PM
consider harper instead. I'm using it right now and it highlighted first two words of this comment. https://writewithharper.com/
Grammatik ran in 64K of RAM on a Z80 running CP/M. (The binary included a Forth interpreter so there was a lot of straight up code compaction.) So yeah, you could catch a lot of common English-language infelicities in a startlingly resource constrained environment... in 1983. Certainly a lot more than typos.
(The reason I remember this bright and shiny data point is I spent a week or three reverse engineering it and getting access to the inner interpreter; the office staff actually used it, though.)