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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by mathewsanders »

turtlesoup wrote: post #294
tombh wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :(

> I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :(

That sounds like an impressive project in itself :)

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by truffle_pig »

My favorite one so far:

mantula: a small parasitic stinging insect that feeds on ants, flies, and other small insects, native to leafy lawns and shrubs. "mantulas are widely grown as food"

You could do some great auto-worldbuilding in a dwarf fortress type game with this. Maybe constraining the input data to "bio" and "historical" definitions.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by cromantic »

brogrammer2018 wrote: post #141

Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites: • This Person Does Not Exist https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ • These Lyrics Do Not Exist https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/ • This Cat Does Not Exist https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ • This Rental Does Not Exist https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/ • This Waifu Does Not Exist https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ • This Resume Does Not Exist https://thisresum…

>https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

What hath God wrought? https://i.imgur.com/Fq6Vh5Y.jpg

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by severak_cz »

klohto wrote: post #259
malkia wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And we owe the word "robot" to Karel Čapek (AFAIK). "Rabota" - means work in Bulgarian, and I guess similar in many other slavic languages.

FYI, the robot and rabota are pretty close due to ‘robota’ meaning work in old Czech.

this is exactly how it was invented.

Also - "robot" was not invented Karel Čapek but his brother Josef. Karel was looking for good word describing mechanical workers for his theatre play called RUR.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by yosito »

st_goliath wrote: post #155
brogrammer2018 wrote: post #141

Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites: • This Person Does Not Exist https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ • These Lyrics Do Not Exist https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/ • This Cat Does Not Exist https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ • This Rental Does Not Exist https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/ • This Waifu Does Not Exist https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ • This Resume Does Not Exist https://thisresum…

> 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/

I'm looking for a meta "This list does not exist" generator.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by yosito »

CathedralBorrow wrote: post #313
godelski wrote: post #260

I'm not understanding the praise this is getting. The words I've seen are very clearly wrong and do not match how English words are made. Some examples: > méxis: an obsessive or revelatory pursuit No comment.... > heelbark: a red braid fastened to a man's hat so as to prevent heeling Unless you put your hat on your shoes, you're on the wrong end of the body. > transgate: raise the value of (something, especially mone…

How are English words made?

I'm not a linguist, but typically words evolve as memes and/or follow etymological patterns made up of root words. It's very rare that they're plausible sounding gibberish attached to plausible arbitrary meanings. This generator seems like it's in the "uncanny valley".... They're all somewhat plausible immitations of words, but the fact that they're not natural can be felt.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by fredrb »

Self-aware Machine Learning

    procreationist
    1. relating to or advocating the theory that sex is the only biological sex, or as opposed to that other sex identified with reproduction "a procreationist approach to reproductive science"

    2. a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

mathewsanders wrote: post #321
turtlesoup wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :(

> I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :( That sounds like an impressive project in itself :)

Words not on Wikipedia, found on other sources, listed by frequency (perhaps with a date-weighting of the source document to reduce rating of older sources), would be an interesting way to find holes in Wikipedia's coverage.
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