SUB-100 FINALLY
Semantle #15 in 90 guesses. semantle.novalis.org
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basically same strategy as semantle #14, thought in terms of co-occurrence in similar documents. again ran into a mild issue with polysemous words but now that i know to look for it it's manageable
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today i tried thinking a lot more about what words were likely to occur in similar positions in similar documents in word2vec’s training set and that worked a lot better than trying to use raw semantic distance only
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the main mental move i'm doing is something like maintaining a "light grip" on what i think the word is "about." like too tight a grip and i don't move far away enough, too loose a grip and there are too many options where to go next
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also slowly developing more of an intuition for what the similarity numbers mean. below 15 or so is incredibly noisy, 25ish is roughly when you're really getting somewhere it seems like?
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game state at the end. initially i got words that seemed like they could be descriptions of skin, then got to "feathery" on a whim and went for bird words
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Really interesting to see other people’s words! We hit it big with some car parts early on and it totally threw us off
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huh car parts because... tail pipe? tail fins?
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i imagine lots of sentences in the training set like "the bird's majestic wings," stuff like that
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i was in an airport and guessed a bunch of airplæn anatomical terms (engine, cockpit, aileron, flaps, rudder) but i didn't see the green thingies because i was on my phone and it wasn't showing them and i gave up out of frustration, F
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I got "snout" at 998 and was lost on it for dozens of tries
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yeah it's tricky when the word sort of changes in functionality, confusing stuff