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by michaeld123 10d ago
If you need more data to help drive features: https://www.linguabase.org
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by michaeld123 2mo ago
that's not how I interpreted the whole article.
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by michaeld123 5mo ago
Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: All LLMs, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.com Email: m5@inotherwords-studio.com I help m
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by michaeld123 6mo ago
Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, LLM pipeline orchestration (130M+ API calls across Claude/GPT/Grok), JavaScript Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.co
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by michaeld123 6mo ago
Both your points are solid. I think I'm pretty liberal about opposites, I can see opposites to major political and cultural figures too. You are right that the mahjong presentation loses rigor if there's not enough downside from
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by michaeld123 6mo ago
the older generation of vectors, like word2vec, compress to one sense of a word, but even if we ignore polysemy, opposites have a lot in common. So for any antonym pair, they would not be minus-1, they would be actually pretty close. The bi
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Show HN: Antimatter – Match the opposites (Mahjong solitaire mechanic)(linguabase.org)
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The New York Times hated crossword puzzles before it embraced them(bigthink.com)
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by michaeld123 6mo ago
Historical look back at old articles on this popular word game. February 15, 2022 - bigthink.com Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Swift, JavaScript, semantic systems, LLM orchestration Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.com Email: m5@inotherwords-studio.c
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
And I attempted to add your 'svart hull' note.
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
I just adapted your comments into the paragraph starting with "German". Hopefully accurately.
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
My bad. there's a little sidebar about it, but I put it lower after the chart because there wasn't room. You might still not find my logic on the 15% satisfying, but it's there.
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
It's not so much the prompt, as the volume. This overall project has involved >100M LLM inferences, spread across 1.9M headwords. the building block is "what words or short terms are related to X?", but scaled out. Plus a
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Ha — you're probably right that it would have been less controversial. But I kept it precisely because it's arguable. Added a parenthetical acknowledging the HN debate and framing it as on-the-fence by design
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Added a note: "'I love you' isn't opaque, but it's tight enough to put on a tile." The familiar end of the spectrum picks up collocations that are transparent but loaded — I'm not claiming they're wor
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
You were right — it is now. Thanks
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Yeah — added a note below the slider that the obscure end is noise (LLM artifacts, jargon fragments, Wiktionary debris) and that where to draw the line is up to the reader. It was always intended to show the full gradient including where it
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Added Japanese nettō alongside the Slavic examples. Thanks for the specifics
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
This was a great detail — added Russian kipyatok and Polish wrzątok to the article as evidence that "boiling water" carries enough conceptual weight that other languages crystallized it into a single word
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Added Dutch "creditcard" as another example. Thanks
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Added a German/Norwegian section — but vidarh corrected me below: German doesn't 'remove the space,' the compound never had one. Adding a space changes the meaning or breaks the grammar. The article now reflects that.
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Great example — I added svart hull to the article as an illustration of a language that writes it as two words but still puts it in the dictionary because the meaning isn't obvious from the parts. That's exactly the instinct Engli
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
You and Shorel were both right — added it. Thanks -- the lexicographers like https://www.sketchengine.eu
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Fair point — added a mention of collocations
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
I'm the author. Updated the article based on this thread — thanks to everyone who pushed back. Changes: reframed "boiling water" as deliberately on-the-fence rather than asserting it's a word; added a note that the obscu
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
The very bottom of the slider is there to illustrate where LLM artifacts and Wiktionary noise live — it's not presented as legitimate vocabulary. The slider lets you see the full quality gradient, including where it breaks down.
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by michaeld123 7mo ago
Fair point. I just rewrote the intro w/ the naming-function argument first.
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by michaeld123 8mo ago
Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Swift, JavaScript, semantic systems, LLM orchestration Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.com Email: m5@inotherwords-studio.c

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