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Infinite Craft

neal.fun

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Re: Infinite Craft

#311
> fire + fish = sushi

Literally unplayable.

EDIT: apparently I'm the first to discover "Captain Tokyo"?

EDIT: and "Captain Tiamat". Had no idea those are even things.

Seems like I'm the designated captain discoverer. More to the list:

- Captain Penguin Universe

- Captain Penguin Planet

- Captain Penguin Multiverse

- Captain Poseidon Multiverse

- Captain Jack Poseidon

- Captain Jack Tiamat

- Captain Everything Jack Sparrow (which can't combine with anything, apparently)

- Captain Penguin Zombee

- Captain Penguin Zombee Universe (also can't combine with anything)

Re: Infinite Craft

#312
This is like a solitaire version of a game I like called telepathy, where two people at a time will call out a word, and then two more people try to come up with a word that links the two… keep iterating until two people call out the same word! Super fun.

Re: Infinite Craft

#314
post #9

I couldn't find any information but does this use some kind of LLM to derive the combinations from? It makes a request to the backend every time you combine items which sometimes takes >500ms, and also supports some really wild combinations that I highly doubt someone has taken the time to come up with. It would also explain why the icons are emoji's, it would be fairly trivial to ask ChatGPT to give you the result o…

An LLM seems like overkill for a project like this. Why not word2vec?

More dimensions?

Re: Infinite Craft

#319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tree + Water = river was also pretty baffling. Unfortunate. I can see the appeal of using an LLM for this but the results are pretty mediocre.

Tree + Water = River This is a great result, a branching of water/wood.

I also got Dandelion + Engine = Helicopter, along these same lines.

Re: Infinite Craft

#320
post #9

I couldn't find any information but does this use some kind of LLM to derive the combinations from? It makes a request to the backend every time you combine items which sometimes takes >500ms, and also supports some really wild combinations that I highly doubt someone has taken the time to come up with. It would also explain why the icons are emoji's, it would be fairly trivial to ask ChatGPT to give you the result o…

An LLM seems like overkill for a project like this. Why not word2vec?

The open vocabulary aspect seems important. Word2vec would never let me make "Pirate Pope Wars".
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