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Nonsense Laboratory
- Y_Y 5y agoThis would really benefit from a text-to-speech component. I don't know if a capable one exists yet, but surely it will soon.
- rmac 5y agoI hit the "play" button on the SEQUENCER 5 times hoping it would say the word out-loud for me :)
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- teddyh 5y agoI hoped to find, but did not see, a nonsense-word-to-word-pair function. Like, if it could turn “Frumious” back into “fuming” and “furious”.
- kungito 5y agoWhat would be a related use of this? How come they funded this?
- smnrchrds 5y agoMaybe someone up in the chain liked this too much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
- mattkrause 5y agoA surprising amount of work goes into coming up with the nearly-nonsensical names for drugs, and the process often starts with a list of thousands(!) of candidate names which are winnowed down. For example, generic name needs to follow certain rules: the suffix indicates the class of drug (see the giant list here[0]), and there are other constraints about what must (and must not) go in the prefix. Brand names have some regulatory restrictions, but are also optimized for marketing: Viagra, for example, was supposedly named by combining 'vigorous' and 'Niagara [Falls]', which is...connotative of its effects. Something like this could be helpful for noodling around in that space. [0]: https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/jsp/drugportal/DrugNameGenericStems.jsp https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/jsp/drugportal/DrugN...
- barbazoo 5y agoInteresting but I somehow don't see why Google would spend engineering time on what sounds like less of an engineering problem.
- mattkrause 5y agoIt could be useful for naming all kinds of things. On the other hand, the rest of the stuff on that page is all fairly random and not particularly tied to Google's core products. It might just be a random side project.
- eihli 5y agohttps://www.creativitypost.com/article/spinning_plates_and_the_serious_play_of_richard_feynman https://www.creativitypost.com/article/spinning_plates_and_t... "Serious play means you value play as a tool for fostering creative thinking." This could be the seed, test-bed, and proof-of-concept for a set of libraries that would be useful for speech to text, autocomplete, natural language processing, etc...
- efferifick 5y agoHere's another model to generate nonsensical words.: https://www.soybomb.com/tricks/words/ https://www.soybomb.com/tricks/words/
- dminor 5y agoHere's something similar I made awhile back: http://password.supply http://password.supply It uses Markov chains to pick the next letter (the current state is the previous two letters)
- ling3 5y agoI would love to know how this project came about. Is this the famed 20% time?
- some_random 5y agoThis is wonderful.