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Re: Unrelated Words Puzzle

#21
See also https://enlinko.com/. The calculations here are snappy.

I do not know which one was created first.

"Relatedness" here is according to ... something ... Approximately but not exactly the likelyhood that words appear near to one another in a large corpus of text. Probably doing lookups on something crunched by google books.

Re: Unrelated Words Puzzle

#22
nice concept, but doesn't work as game yet, due to vast space of creative association between the words which are possible but not detected by app. Example:

banknote is not >20% related to and end word investor (5%) mark (13%)

Re: Unrelated Words Puzzle

#25
post #21

See also https://enlinko.com/ . The calculations here are snappy. I do not know which one was created first. "Relatedness" here is according to ... something ... Approximately but not exactly the likelyhood that words appear near to one another in a large corpus of text. Probably doing lookups on something crunched by google books.

this is really nice!

Re: Unrelated Words Puzzle

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post #5

I like it a lot, but it’s also frustrating. Perhaps it’s being hugged to death right now but the lookups are very slow, so when I disagree with the results it’s a bit painful. If the results were quicker it would not be so bad, I could try different things. I was a bit miffed that “currency” was not considered to be related to “mark”. Similarly I thought I’d found the perfect word between “ski” and “trust”, “mogul”,…

I thought investor -> currency -> mark would be a slam dunk but apparently "mark" here is not related to the German Mark.

Re: Unrelated Words Puzzle

#27
I had to connect investor and mark... I put "grade". It said that it was not related to mark. I stopped at that point.

Cool concept, but seems like its not reliable/intuitive enough unfortunately. Keep at it and I might try again on a future version with a better back-end/tolerance.

Re: Unrelated Words Puzzle

#28

I had to connect investor and mark... I put "grade". It said that it was not related to mark. I stopped at that point. Cool concept, but seems like its not reliable/intuitive enough unfortunately. Keep at it and I might try again on a future version with a better back-end/tolerance.

I got the same, I put "scammer". Also thought it was unrelated, even though a scammer convinces a mark they're an investor. Tried "cryptocurrency", still unrelated, though a cryptocurrency investor is a mark!

Re: Unrelated Words Puzzle

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post #18
post #5

I like it a lot, but it’s also frustrating. Perhaps it’s being hugged to death right now but the lookups are very slow, so when I disagree with the results it’s a bit painful. If the results were quicker it would not be so bad, I could try different things. I was a bit miffed that “currency” was not considered to be related to “mark”. Similarly I thought I’d found the perfect word between “ski” and “trust”, “mogul”,…

I saw "mark" and immediately though "scam" (which I figured would be easy to get to from "investor," but it told me that "scam" and "mark" share only 2% similarity. I can't even go from "investor" to "money" (16%). I'm not sure how "Zuckerberg" is closer to "investor" than "money" is.

I thought Deutsche Mark..
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