Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#1

Post by skndr » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 7:41 PM UTC

Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others
halfwaywords.com

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#2

Post by skndr » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 7:43 PM UTC

This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash (https://ash-hq.org/) and is deployed on Fly.io.

Some fun ones:

- imagination and vacation -> fantasize

- enthusiasm and zeal -> fervor

- angry and hungry -> famished

- spoon and fork -> spork

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#3

Post by bitsinthesky » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:51 PM UTC

Very fun project that I'll probably use. However i can't get the website to connect on mobile.

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#4

Post by skndr » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 9:08 PM UTC

bitsinthesky wrote: post #3

Very fun project that I'll probably use. However i can't get the website to connect on mobile.

Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#5

Post by borromakot » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 9:08 PM UTC

Hey there! Creator of Ash here. Mind if I tweet about this?

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#6

Post by skndr » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

borromakot wrote: post #5

Hey there! Creator of Ash here. Mind if I tweet about this?

Go for it! Really enjoying it :)

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

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Post by shrimpx » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 2:04 AM UTC

skndr wrote: post #4

bitsinthesky wrote: post #3

Very fun project that I'll probably use. However i can't get the website to connect on mobile.

Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.

Still down. “Can’t find the internet” error.

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#8

Post by gavmor » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 4:31 AM UTC

cowboy and paint -> draw

Well I laughed.

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#9

Post by steve_adams_86 » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 5:08 AM UTC

one and infinity -> half infinity

Well, sure

Edit:

sex and pooping -> ejaculation

I know I went too far… But what a response

Re: Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

#10

Post by colanderman » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 5:12 AM UTC

skndr wrote: post #2

This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash ( https://ash-hq.org/ ) and is deployed on Fly.io. Some fun ones: - imagination and vacation -> fantasize - enthusiasm and zeal -> fervor - angry and hungry -> famished - spoon and fork -> spork

The pre-computer version of this is H. G. Burger's Wordtree [1]. It is an absolutely fascinating one-man project to "binomialize" the entire English vocabulary. It is worth owning just to read the bizarre and fascinating series of prefaces, in several of which Mr. Burger details his strongly held beliefs of a strong copyright system.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wordtree-Transitive-Cladistic-Physica...