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Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by C-x_C-f »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #58

Some of these make more sense than others (and bookshop is hilarious even if it's only the best answer by a small margin; no shade to bookshop owners). map - legend = Mercator projection noodle - wheat = egg noodle noodle - gluten = tagliatelle architecture - calculus = architectural style answer - question = comment shop - income = bookshop curry - curry powder = cuisine rice - grain = chicken and rice rice + chicke…

I don't want to dump too many but I found

   chess - checkers = wormseed mustard (63%)
pretty funny and very hard to understand. All the other options are hyperspecific grasslike plants like meadow salsify.

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by moefh »

hagen_dogs wrote: post #122

fluid + liquid = solid (85%) -- didn't expect that blue + red = yellow (87%) -- rgb, neat black + {red,blue,yellow,green} = white 83% -- weird

> blue + red = yellow (87%) -- rgb, neat

Blue + red is magenta. Yellow would be red + green.

None of these results make much sense to me.

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by godelski »

Sharlin wrote: post #128
godelski wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The results are surprisingly good, I don't think I could've done better as a human I'm actually surprised that the performance is so poor and would expect a human to do much better. The GPT model has embedding PLUS a whole transformer model that can untangle the embedded structure. To clarify some of the issues: data is both singular and plural, being a mass noun[0,1]. Datum is something you'll find in the dictiona…

"King-crown=ruler" is IMO absolutely apt. Arguing that "crown" can be used metaphorically is a bit disingenuous because first, it's very rarely applied to non-monarchs, and is a very physical, concrete symbol of power that separates monarchs from other rulers. "King-princess=man" can be thought to subtract the "royalty" part of "king"; "man" is just as good an answer as any else. "King-queen=prince" I'd think of as s…

  > it's very rarely applied to non-monarchs
I take your point but highly disagree that it's disingenuous to view this metaphorically. The crown has always been a symbol of the seat of power and that usage dates back centuries. I've seen it commonly used to refer to leadership in general. Actually more often.

  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Lies_the_Crown
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Is_the_Head
Notably even in the usage of Henry IV that the idiom draws from is using it in the metaphorical sense, despite also talking about a ruler so would wear a literal crown. There's similar frequent usage in widely popular shows like Game of Thrones. So I hope you can see why I really do not think it's fair to call me disingenuous. The metaphorical usage is extremely common.

I'll buy the king price relationship. That's fair. But it also seems to be in disagreement from the king queen one.

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by ccppurcell »

C-x_C-f wrote: post #131
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #58

Some of these make more sense than others (and bookshop is hilarious even if it's only the best answer by a small margin; no shade to bookshop owners). map - legend = Mercator projection noodle - wheat = egg noodle noodle - gluten = tagliatelle architecture - calculus = architectural style answer - question = comment shop - income = bookshop curry - curry powder = cuisine rice - grain = chicken and rice rice + chicke…

I don't want to dump too many but I found chess - checkers = wormseed mustard (63%) pretty funny and very hard to understand. All the other options are hyperspecific grasslike plants like meadow salsify.

My philosophical take on it is that natural language has many many more dimensions than we could hope to represent. Whenever you do dimension reduction you lose information.
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