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Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles

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Post by spacether »

politelemon wrote: post #2

I like it! What's the process, are you looking up rhymes, then Wikipedia titles containing those words?

Glad to hear that you like it! Yup that's the process. Titles are in a relational db and fetched titles for a rhyme are stored in redis to speed up queries after the first one.

Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles

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Post by dataflow »

It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got:

- List of largest cruise trips List of largest cruise ships

- Trips Industries, Tips Industries

What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns.

A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.

Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles

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Post by notamoosed »

spacether wrote: post #3
politelemon wrote: post #2

I like it! What's the process, are you looking up rhymes, then Wikipedia titles containing those words?

Glad to hear that you like it! Yup that's the process. Titles are in a relational db and fetched titles for a rhyme are stored in redis to speed up queries after the first one.

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Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles

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Post by pimlottc »

dataflow wrote: post #5

It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got: - List of largest cruise trips List of largest cruise ships - Trips Industries, Tips Industries What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns. A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.

I agree, and even knowing this, I assumed it was finding pairs of real articles that rhymed. But no. It’s just a list of real articles and made up rhyming titles.

Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles

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Post by ndarray »

This is awesome. Might have some bugs as others mentioned but I like this idea, it's capable of producing some hilarious material in combination with swear words. Some of the word substitutions are too dissimilar for my taste though I'm sure it's difficult to get the tolerance right on your end.
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