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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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post #276

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If you're using a blacklist, it it really machine learning? Or are you using it to re-train?

blacklist is probably to avoid cases where it randomly generates a real word like above two cases, so that blacklist filter is probably applied after the ml stuff.

Yup, the line for the blacklist lookup is here: https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist/blob...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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post #287

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Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

Oh, I'm surprised the "blacklist" isn't just the standard English dictionary. I'm sure I'm just being naive though. Why not just blacklist any word that already exists in English?

That may be because there isn't a single definitive list of all words in the English language

https://www.lexico.com/explore/how-many-words-are-there-in-t...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

Oh, I'm surprised the "blacklist" isn't just the standard English dictionary. I'm sure I'm just being naive though. Why not just blacklist any word that already exists in English?

There are some subtleties (e.g. hyphens, derived forms, bigrams, etc.) but the biggest problem is that most English dictionaries don't have entries for every scientific word / piece of internet slang. I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :(

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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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.

it's quite good with jargon that sounds [to the layman] plausibly medical

cyphroglodystrophy cyphroglodys·tro·phy a form of muscular dystrophy of muscle, caused by compression of an amyloid cytochrome "children with cyphroglodystrophy have unusually low blood pressure"

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Great stuff. Found a real word: refactoring the systematic and systematic reworking of a piece of text to reduce unnecessary redundancies Interesting that the made-up definition is pretty much the real one. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...

Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

I got Undercrowded

  undercrowded
  un·der·crowded
  (of a place) not full of people or vehicles
  "the area was undercrowded with traffic"

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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This is amazing: quintessay 1. a piece of writing (usually one of short or noibid) expressing or expressing a person's view, especially the concept of something abstract or self-subsistent. "the main quintessay of feminist theory." 2. a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm. Link / Generate another word / Write your own

see also: pseudothesis
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