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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by bitwize » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:49 PM UTC

msla wrote: post #26

palumpolism (in Hinduism) a state of complete consciousness and mind "she had reached a mystical state of palumpolism" % shakura a traditional Western-style ceremony performed by traditional Japanese people in which offerings, including candles, were offered to the dead before burial "the shakuras return next year" % empaired em·paired (of a person) having; displaying irrationally "he seemed to live vicariously throu…

Was there a lot of video game dialogue in the training text?

Palumpolum is a locale in Final Fantasy XIII, itself named after the characters Palum and Porom from Final Fantasy IV.

Shakuras is a locale in StarCraft, the planet to which the Protoss Dark Templar retreated after their schism with the Khalai of Aiur.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by greenshackle2 » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

  noun.
  tartou
  tar·tou
  
  a Chinese pastry
  "each piece of beef tendon tartou serves four and a half hours ago"

Time-traveling pastries, wonderful.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by abnry » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

dlkf wrote: post #31

strillation stril·la·tion the action or process of boiling (a subject, typically an animal) at room temperature I have to say this is pretty hilarious

Depends on the liquid you're using!! You can definitely boil a squirrel in liquid nitrogen!

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by cosbynator » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:52 PM UTC

johncoogan wrote: post #40

tiborsaas wrote: post #35

This is perfect to name startups / products. Very well done.

Came here to comment this.

I'll give it a go! Seems pretty easy to replace the blacklist test with a WHOIS lookup.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by tpfour » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:53 PM UTC

Ha!

    neuterization
    neu·ter·i·za·tion
    the denial of a person's sexual identity and gender 
    identity to someone else
    "she had undergone neuterization of her facial hair"

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by turtlesoup » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:54 PM UTC

Someone wrote: post #38

Bug report: I hit “Microtissue”, a word that does exist, and its definition is incorrect ;-) ( https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/microtissue/eyJ3IjogI... )

Oh no, it must have missed my blacklist. It's supposed to give a little "this word probably exists" when that happens. It's surprisingly hard to determine if a word already exists: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tissue/eyJ3IjogInRpc3...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by crazygringo » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:54 PM UTC

Wow. GPT2 is so, so, so much better than Markov chains. I'm reading these definitions, and the fact that the last few words of the sentence match the first few words subject-wise is pretty amazing. Just some random ones:

> denoting or relating to a word (e.g., al-Qadri), the first letter of which is preceded or followed by another letter

> a synthetic compound used in perfumery and cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of skin tone and irritation

> a type of cookie made with dough, jelly, butter, or chocolate, often filled with extra flour

Pretty impressive. I've never seen fake text so real. (I mean none of these seem to quite make 100% logical sense, but if you were just skimming the sentence nothing would stand out as a red flag.)

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by jaywalk » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:54 PM UTC

One of the words I got was "unsubsidized" which appears in pretty much every online dictionary I've looked at, although it is red squiggle underlined in the comment box.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by cosbynator » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:55 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #41

msla wrote: post #26

palumpolism (in Hinduism) a state of complete consciousness and mind "she had reached a mystical state of palumpolism" % shakura a traditional Western-style ceremony performed by traditional Japanese people in which offerings, including candles, were offered to the dead before burial "the shakuras return next year" % empaired em·paired (of a person) having; displaying irrationally "he seemed to live vicariously throu…

Was there a lot of video game dialogue in the training text? Palumpolum is a locale in Final Fantasy XIII , itself named after the characters Palum and Porom from Final Fantasy IV . Shakuras is a locale in StarCraft , the planet to which the Protoss Dark Templar retreated after their schism with the Khalai of Aiur.

My model is bolted onto GPT-2 which is trained on internet text; I think some of these examples are coming from there.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by starpilot » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:56 PM UTC

Someone wrote: post #38

Bug report: I hit “Microtissue”, a word that does exist, and its definition is incorrect ;-) ( https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/microtissue/eyJ3IjogI... )

Yeah I got comicbook, nonreferential, barleywine, geophile, which could all be compound words, maybe hyphenated today but perhaps not tomorrow.