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

Post by KeplerBoy » Thu, May 15, 2025, 8:09 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #118

mcswell wrote: post #108

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What is the closest?

Usually king is.

Post by afandian » Thu, May 15, 2025, 8:28 AM UTC

halter73 wrote: post #62

afandian wrote: post #49

There was a site like this a few years ago (before all the LLM stuff kicked off) that had this and other NLP functionality. Styling was grey and basic. That’s all I remember. I’ve been unable to find it since. Does anyone know which site I’m thinking of?

I'm not sure this is old enough, but could you be referencing https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020 ?

Post by bluelightning2k » Thu, May 15, 2025, 9:29 AM UTC

Post by gaoryrt » Thu, May 15, 2025, 9:34 AM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #70

n2d4 wrote: post #68

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In the panel, you can drag one of the items (eg. Water) onto another one (eg. Earth), and it will create a new word (eg. Plant). It uses AI, so it goes very deep

No, that was the first thing I tried. The only thing that happens is that the two objects will now share their location. There are no interactions.

Post by kgeist » Thu, May 15, 2025, 10:08 AM UTC

jbjbjbjb wrote: post #99

montebicyclelo wrote: post #51

> king-man+woman=queen Is the famous example everyone uses when talking about word vectors, but is it actually just very cherry picked? I.e. are there a great number of other "meaningful" examples like this, or actually the majority of the time you end up with some kind of vaguely tangentially related word when adding and subtracting word vectors. (Which seems to be what this tool is helping to illustrate, having bri…

Well when it works out it is quite satisfying India - Asia + Europe = Italy Japan - Asia + Europe = Netherlands China - Asia + Europe = Soviet-Union Russia - Asia + Europe = European Russia calculation + machine = computer

  Russia - Europe = Putin
  Ukraine + Putin = Russia
  Putin - Stalin = Bush
  Stalin - purge = Lenin