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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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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!

While this is technically true, it would more commonly be described as freezing.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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I’ll add it’s also getting syllables wrong: - incineratory split into in•cin•e•ra•tory which have the suffix wrong (right is tor•y) - re•tro•genic instead of re•tro•gen•ic

I think people here are missing what you're saying because it is subtle. Which is correct. That "troy" is different from "tor•y". "y" should be the suffix. Just like how "fix•ed" would be different from "fi•xed". "y" is the suffix like "itch" vs "itchy". What this means, building off of what the evidence I gave, is that this model is not learning the morphemes (smallest root meaning). This exact characteristic is par…

You are on to something there. For the syllables I'm actually using a rule-based model from Python's "pyhphen" library: https://pypi.org/project/PyHyphen/

I am not totally happy with the results but have not had a chance to train my own

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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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.

"fibroblastosis" -- appears to feature in some medical journals "bryosphere" -- something to do with moss "biosprint" -- a brand of yeast. Many of these 'non-words' have already been taken....

Oh, that second one is cute. I read up on bryophyes (moss and friends) for an exceedingly brief stint back in my undergrad days. Pronunciation similarity to bio made for many "bryo" puns.

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Fascinating app. Btw postclassification post·clas·si·fi·ca·tion the action or fact of grouping something into one class "his postclassification as a member of a Chinese Marxist party"

Seems close to real word

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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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.

Someone should make a Wikipedia page of that list. Oh, wait.

I like how you had information, made a sarcastic comment about it, but didn't share the actual information ... just in case your comment might prove helpful ...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Someone should make a Wikipedia page of that list. Oh, wait.

I like how you had information, made a sarcastic comment about it, but didn't share the actual information ... just in case your comment might prove helpful ...

Are you saying the URL of that Wikipedia page is “actual information” that patrickthebold failed to share?

I think that page doesn’t exist. patrickthebold wasn’t sarcastically mocking people who were too lazy to look up that page. He was just making the point that as soon as a hypothetical list like that was uploaded to Wikipedia, it should be deleted, since those words would then be words found on Wikipedia.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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copperfish cop·per·fish

    a dark seaweed with silvery-white fur, the male of which has plumes of cyanobacteria similar to those of the copperhead
    "copperfish will hunt bivalve mollusks"
This does not sound at all good...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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If someone could make a billion word dictionary of these words, you could get excellent sentence compression rates out of standard English.

GPT-2 itself works off of excellent sentence compression (byte-pair encoding for the input and output)

so for example, a byte-pair input could be "potato salad in rum" and the output might be "potadum"?

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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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.

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

Data scientist here. It's common to define boundaries for a machine learning algorithm by hand. Think of telling a chess AI that it can't move pieces off the board.
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