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Game #144
Shortest path: 3 (Avg. 5.5)
Total words: 4 (Avg. 11.8)
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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    4 months ago

    This must be the most frustrating game like these. I don’t get the intuition of why some words are decided distance. I guess it takes into account all possible meanings.

    Edit: in the end I was able to get the perfect score after several tries.

    • themoonisacheese
      4·
      4 months ago

      This type of game is based off a dataset that came out a few years ago, that was originally built to train AI. It’s built by analysing all text fed to it (pretty much all of Google book and a very large part of the internet) and whether a word is close or not depends on how frequently the words appear near each other.

      • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
        3·
        4 months ago

        how frequently the words appear near each other

        That’s what I thought for yesterday’s puzzle and tried “final” and “version” but apparently there was no connection between them. I guess if you keep playing you’ll start learning the dataset too.

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          4 months ago

          One thing I misunderstood is that it’s not about how close they are semantically, but in meaning. It’s subtle.

          • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            4 months ago

            I just played for the first time and got:

            Game #144
            Shortest path: 3 (Avg. 3)
            Total words: 3 (Avg. 3)
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            I must have just got lucky with the word I chose: >!food!<

            • lemonmelon@lemmy.world
              2·
              4 months ago

              Interestingly, I chose the same word that you did. But the direct connection to “living” seems to be a stretch.

  • inlandempire@jlai.lu
    2·
    4 months ago
    Game #144
Shortest path: 3 (Avg. 5)
Total words: 3 (Avg. 6)
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  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
    2·
    4 months ago
    Game #144
Shortest path: 3 (Avg. 4)
Total words: 3 (Avg. 6)
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    That was unexpected

  • berryjam@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago
    Game #144
Shortest path: 5 (Avg. 5)
Total words: 6 (Avg. 14.8)
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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 months ago

    Game #144
    Shortest path: 7 (Avg. 7)
    Total words: 12 (Avg. 12)
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    I am not sure how it determines links or not because I gave it many linked words and it did not agree.

    • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.orgOP
      2·
      4 months ago

      I get frustrated by this too. Figured I’d post a new game but if people don’t like it I can stop. I like it well enough to put up with some words that really should be linked not being linked, and unexpected words linking, but I can see why not everyone would.

      3. How does Linxicon determine how similar words are to each other? Behind the scenes, words are entered into a machine learning model that returns a score which indicates how similar words are to each other. If you want to learn more about the model used, click here to the documentation on SentenceTransformers.

      source: https://linxicon.com/faq

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        2·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, it quickly turns into a game of “what does the LLM want”, instead of the intended word relationship.

  • lemonmelon@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    Game #144
    Shortest path: 3 (Avg. 4.5)
    Total words: 3 (Avg. 6.5)
    🟦🟪🟥 | 🔥 2

    I’m still not sold on this one; it’s interesting enougn but it seems incredibly subjective. I don’t believe my word should have connected to “living”, and there was a link yesterday that wouldn’t form that I’m convinced should have.