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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by minimaxir »

crazygringo wrote: post #47

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 app…

One of the recurring tropes on Hacker News whenever a text generator (either RNN or GPT-2 based) project is posted, there is inevitably a comment saying "this is indistinguishable from a Markov chain."

In this case, it's impossible to do so.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#103

Post by Diederich »

Klathmon wrote: post #89
crazygringo wrote: post #47

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 app…

I always like to point people to /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [1] as a good example of what GPT2 is able to accomplish. It's a subreddit filled entirely with bots, each user is trained on a specific subreddit's comments matching it's username (so politicsGPT2Bot is trained on comments from the politics subreddit). Go click through a few comment sections and see how mind-bendingly real some comment chains seem. They reply quot…

Some of this stuff is just gold: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/ggf1mq/i_...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by ashton314 » 

    stirrupie
    stir·rupie

    a stupid or depraved person; an immoral or destructive person
    "every single one of these artists was a stirrupie"
Gold. I bet Neil Stephenson would have loved to have this when he was writing Anathem.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by cosbynator »

greenshackle2 wrote: post #51

Is that.. expected? A recursive definition? nepheaton the period preceding nepheaton

Haha, no but that's neat. The generation process is a sampling procedure so "anything goes" and it can stumble on unlikely samples from time to time. I should probably filter out recursive ones!

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#109

Post by microtherion »

dylan-m wrote: post #96

Straight from a science fiction novel: eicoscience eico·science the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, physics, and the properties of living organisms "I started thinking about the world thinking of me and I never really went deep into the eicoscience" https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/eicoscience/eyJ3IjogI...

    neurotheistic

    relating to the theories of early visual culture,   
    particularly those which emerged out of attempts 
    by the Chinese to achieve a cosmopolitan consciousness 
    through the use of classical ideas
    "the neurotheistic ideas of Mao Zedong"
I like the word, but the definition does not seem to do much with the obvious etymology of the word. One could, e.g., imagine using the word for people who have developed a religious attachment to deep learning networks.
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