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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by jolmg »

turtlesoup wrote: post #46
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...

I also got "adverb. quaterly", "noun. geotagging", "adjective. mispriced", "noun. wholy" (google says it's an obsolete spelling of wholly).

I didn't see any note saying "this word probably exists".

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by turtlesoup »

downshun wrote: post #148
Erwin wrote: post #136

Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_... This 1961 book predicted what Lem calls "opton", an electronic book reader with only one page between the covers (Kindle Opton special f…

It would be neat to do this with different dictionary training sets such as a legal dictionary or biology glossary. I wonder if it could generate useful creative ideas in the mind of a professional. Or, if feeling contentious, other wordspaces https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Gender_Identities

I have some starter code for urban dictionary here if you want to give it a go: https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist/blob...

The early results were that it works, but noisier datasets are tough. The urban dictionary corpus also has a ton of racist definitions

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by gwern »

whymauri wrote: post #97
Klathmon wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Wow, this is so much better than the original /r/subredditsimulator (which was Markov Chains). That's a very fun thread you linked - it's very believable!

One fun part - we used the inline metadata trick to train a single GPT-2-1.5b to do all the different subreddits. It allows mutual transfer learning and saves an enormous amount of space & complexity compared to training separate models, and it's easy to add in any new subreddits one might want (just define a new keyword prefix and train some more). Not sure that trick is meaningful for Markov chains at all!

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by st_goliath »

brogrammer2018 wrote: post #141

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> Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites

"citation needed" on that completeness claim, or rather "this list is incomplete, you can help by expanding it"

Also: https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by csomar »

> minthority

> a fraction of fifty or more (the whole number one), especially within a government or the ranks of a corporate organization

This does exist.

> pneumostomy

> a surgical operation in which a tubular vein is drawn into the lung "he takes a long pneumostomy at the hospital"

This A.I. could be predicting future words.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by bhelkey »

csomar wrote: post #156

> minthority > a fraction of fifty or more (the whole number one), especially within a government or the ranks of a corporate organization This does exist. > pneumostomy > a surgical operation in which a tubular vein is drawn into the lung "he takes a long pneumostomy at the hospital" This A.I. could be predicting future words.

Do you have a suggestion as to how to filter such a word?

It has 64 results on Google

2 results on DDG/Bing.

And no matches on any online dictionary that I could find (Merriam-Webster, Urban Dictionary, ...)

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by munk-a »

The first two I generated were pretty good with the first being a very "true" sounding word - however I then got Spongen[1] - an aromatic berry of a variety with a bright red, yellow, or greenish taste "spongen, light white berries" which seems like a pretty big adjective fail.

1. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/spongen/eyJ3IjogInNwb...

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