I found the best anagram in English (2017) • Hacker News Board

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by zeroonetwothree » Fri, May 05, 2023, 1:42 PM UTC

ChancyChance wrote: post #9

What’s nostalgic to me is that this is such a classic Perl pattern: hashing manipulated strings to find relationships. Prior to Perl doing this was painful. Boost wasn’t a thing. Python was in its cradle and Java was still struggling with beans. Perl removed the barriers between complex coding ideas and an implementation that C wasn’t ready for. The time from thought to prototype was near instant compared to current…

Even in C it’s not that hard to make a basic hash table. It’s probably like 20 lines of code or something.

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by ChancyChance » Fri, May 05, 2023, 1:42 PM UTC

eesmith wrote: post #87

ChancyChance wrote: post #76

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I know. I’m talking about Perl. Try to keep up.

Do pay attention. You wrote "Prior to Perl doing this was painful.". I highlighted how you contradicted the author's claim that it was easy to do using awk. Awk existed long before Perl.

What’s the word for when snark backfires?

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by Amorymeltzer » Fri, May 05, 2023, 1:43 PM UTC

cubefox wrote: post #56

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696196 Response by the author: https://blog.plover.com/lang/anagram-scoring-3.html

Inspired by the author's recent brief revisitings: https://blog.plover.com/addenda/202304.html and https://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/water-polo.html

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by ChancyChance » Fri, May 05, 2023, 1:46 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #82

avereveard wrote: post #62

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But the normal form as defined by the article is an hash, even if you then use sorting instead of bucketing

The point is that you don’t need a hash table implementation. And the normalization that is used as the sorting key doesn’t otherwise have good hash-like qualities (like constant size and a good distribution) and thus doesn’t especially deserve to be called a hash.

How do you extract the last (largest) entry for each normalized key from the sorted list? What is the command line function?

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by skottk » Fri, May 05, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

In a book release event for Stefan Fatsis's book on tournament Scrabble players, Word Freak, the host posed the "megachiropteran" anagram as a trivia question for a book giveaway.

One of the top players in my club _instantly_ replied "cinematographer," and added, "but megachiropteran isn't in the OSPD [Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary], so it doesn't really count."

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by abecedarius » Fri, May 05, 2023, 1:52 PM UTC

jodrellblank wrote: post #84

mauvehaus wrote: post #68

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That's a palindrome, not an anagram. If you'd like to see the director's cut of that palindrome, it's available here: http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_panama.html I've always been partial to pangrams: sentences that use every letter in the alphabet at least once, typically shooting for a short sentence. My favorite is "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs". Not minimal, but delightful and uses only words that m…

My favourite is that the 49 word one was found by Guy Steele. Yes, this Guy Steele: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr .

See also https://norvig.com/palindrome.html with code and a bit of Steele followup.

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by hgsgm » Fri, May 05, 2023, 2:01 PM UTC

skottk wrote: post #95

In a book release event for Stefan Fatsis's book on tournament Scrabble players, Word Freak, the host posed the "megachiropteran" anagram as a trivia question for a book giveaway. One of the top players in my club _instantly_ replied "cinematographer," and added, "but megachiropteran isn't in the OSPD [Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary], so it doesn't really count."

Why do scrabble players care about words that long? Beyond fun trivia.

What's the longest word ever played in an actual game of Scrabble? And though this is hard to get data for, what's the longest word that ever could have been played but missed?

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by hgsgm » Fri, May 05, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #69

kthejoker2 wrote: post #17

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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

> ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE Goedel's incompleteness theorem fans would be drooling all over this

Why?

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by hgsgm » Fri, May 05, 2023, 2:04 PM UTC

eesmith wrote: post #38

pfdietz wrote: post #12

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Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord

Dick Cavett, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/style/dick-cavett-intervi... > I guess I’ll be known for nothing more than being the man who realized that “Spiro Agnew” was “grow a penis.” Gore Vidal said, “It could be ‘grow a spine,’ too, but yours is better.” Boy, they're really socking it to that Spiro Agnew guy again.

That's why they're called nattering nabobs of negativism.

Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Post by doctor_eval » Fri, May 05, 2023, 2:05 PM UTC

ChancyChance wrote: post #92

eesmith wrote: post #87

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Do pay attention. You wrote "Prior to Perl doing this was painful.". I highlighted how you contradicted the author's claim that it was easy to do using awk. Awk existed long before Perl.

What’s the word for when snark backfires?

“Sorry”?