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Post by goto11 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:04 AM UTC

gerdesj wrote: post #196

Erwin wrote: post #136

Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_... This 1961 book predicted what Lem calls "opton", an electronic book reader with only one page between the covers (Kindle Opton special f…

"Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare." SL's inventiveness is beyond reproach but he lived in a time (died 2006) rather later than Mr (I have 50 spelings of my name) Shakesper. Lem spoke several languages and a cursory glance at your link seems to show a lot of drinks! Shake a spear did invent a huge number of English words. Some of them were due to the rather random speling existent in the Elizabet…

Post by CathedralBorrow » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:38 AM UTC

godelski wrote: post #260

I'm not understanding the praise this is getting. The words I've seen are very clearly wrong and do not match how English words are made. Some examples: > méxis: an obsessive or revelatory pursuit No comment.... > heelbark: a red braid fastened to a man's hat so as to prevent heeling Unless you put your hat on your shoes, you're on the wrong end of the body. > transgate: raise the value of (something, especially mone…

Post by Kwantuum » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:59 AM UTC

Post by hackerman123469 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:11 PM UTC

Klathmon wrote: post #89

crazygringo wrote: post #47

Wow. GPT2 is so, so, so much better than Markov chains. I'm reading these definitions, and the fact that the last few words of the sentence match the first few words subject-wise is pretty amazing. Just some random ones: > denoting or relating to a word (e.g., al-Qadri), the first letter of which is preceded or followed by another letter > a synthetic compound used in perfumery and cosmetic surgery to improve the app…

I always like to point people to /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [1] as a good example of what GPT2 is able to accomplish. It's a subreddit filled entirely with bots, each user is trained on a specific subreddit's comments matching it's username (so politicsGPT2Bot is trained on comments from the politics subreddit). Go click through a few comment sections and see how mind-bendingly real some comment chains seem. They reply quot…

Post by nemacol » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:29 PM UTC