Feels like the edit distance algorithm would be the natural fit here for scoring.
I found the best anagram in English (2017)
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#12That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones: Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis Charles Manson = Slasher con man David Letterman = Dead mitral vent Mary Jo Kopechne = My joke chaperon * Benito Mussolini = So, I bout Leninism Lee Harvey Oswald = Oe, why ever Dallas? * * "Chaperon" is a valid a…
Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#13I don't know why, but I really like soapstone teaspoons.
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#14Jeremy’s Iron
Tell me you’re a millennial who grew up watching The Simpsons without etc etc.
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#15I think the best anagrams are the ones that create meaningful phases, I would probably train a SVM or a simple linear layer on BERT (or other encoder) embeddings and use it to score the results.
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#16I don't know why, but I really like soapstone teaspoons.
I will counter that with.. timesaving negativism.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#17That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones: Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis Charles Manson = Slasher con man David Letterman = Dead mitral vent Mary Jo Kopechne = My joke chaperon * Benito Mussolini = So, I bout Leninism Lee Harvey Oswald = Oe, why ever Dallas? * * "Chaperon" is a valid a…
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action is still my favorite serendiptious anagram.
I also like the mathematically correct
ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE
especially because it's also an numeric anagram
11 + 2 = 12 + 1
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#18Some of my favorite pairs from the big list:
misrelation / orientalism; superintended / unpredestined; incorporate / procreation (don't mind if i do!); predators / teardrops (a cause and effect); counteridea / reeducation (a bit synonymous); streamlined / derailments (quite opposite!); truculent / unclutter; colonialist / oscillation; renavigate / vegetarian; persistent / prettiness; paternoster / penetrators (hmm); obscurantist / subtractions; nectarines / transience (a story of ripeness); definability / identifiably; indiscreet / iridescent; excitation / intoxicate; discounter / reductions (how logical!)
One small suggestion I have: add a point for pairs with different starting letters, and another point for pairs with different ending letters.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#19Feels like the edit distance algorithm would be the natural fit here for scoring.
How does that do on the longest example found by the author, which he (correctly IMO) dismisses as uninteresting?
cholecystoduodenostomy / duodenocholecystostomy