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Another question: are there other scenarios outside of playing Scrabble where something like this would be useful?
by danger 16y ago
Another question: are there other scenarios outside of playing Scrabble where something like this would be useful?
- jerf 16y agoIn the abstract? Probably. But in human domains I suspect you're unlikely to find something very amenable to this sort of approach without a lot of looking. I actually think he's better off just memorizing because the words are human words from human minds and just trusting to your own human mind is going to work better than a simple math approach. The one thing I'd consider adding is memorizing the tuple (word, origin), because English's problem is that my first paragraph is simplified for English; we actually use many different distinct human patterns, and helping the brain partition the problem might be helpful.