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Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-ex
by turtlesoup 5y ago
Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist)
Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/ https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/
- dymax78 5y agoNo specific question, but thank you for the highly entertaining (and interesting) site; I've had a blast with it. "A Way With Words" would probably love this.
- TobTobXX 5y agoThere's a link called "link" which creates a permalink to a given word.
- vinhboy 5y agoShould have named it startupnamegenerator.com
- shaftway 5y agoThe alternate site is particularly relevant to me; the first two words I "made up" were "cromulent" and "embiggen". Well played.
- not2b 5y agoYou might need some filtering. I got the following output for my 7th or 8th try (I did s/ig/*/g because I hate typing this): noun. n*gerbar n*·ger·bar a bar from which the beer and liquor are sold "that party got a whole lot cooler this week with a n*gerbar refreshment" a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.
- throw10920 5y ago(you might want to read up on the use-mention distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...)
- gberger 5y agoPlease could you explain the relevance of the article to the previous comment?
- not2b 5y agoPerhaps throw10920 thinks I should have just used the word because I was only quoting the output, so it wasn't really me saying it, but I chose otherwise. I don't need to read up on the use-mention distinction to decide whether to make such a choice.
- asxd 5y agoI have a feeling the parent poster realized they were only mentioning the word, but chose not to write it anyway. For a lot of people, it is a very uncomfortable word after all.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoIt's hilarious that not even this GPT side project can escape the need for OpenAI-style output filtering. Someone really ought to make an open source lib to solve this once and for all...
- wodenokoto 5y agoI don’t have access to gpt-3 but have wondered how much adding “without being offensive” to the prompt would help. On one hand it’s the promise of the algorithm that such things will work, on the other hand I doubt it.
- cookieswumchorr 5y ago
- Yajirobe 5y agoHow long did it take to train this GPT-2 based model?
- turtlesoup 5y agoIt's a refinement of a lightweight version of GPT-2 by Hugging Face -- https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/gpt2.html https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/gpt2.html. I don't recall exact numbers, but once I had the structure of the problem right (i.e. sequencing words, part of speech and definitions) it was around 12 hours on my old 1080 TI.
- revolvingocelot 5y agoAhh, and you've made the wise decision to NFTify the fucked up Homers! Nothing says "investment vehicle" like-- hey, wait a minute!! That's a fucked up Bart! Good day, sir! [0] https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/36564177330580734605664597925986527990405067766273752561767449852309527330817 https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
- turtlesoup 5y agoAlright! Someone shilling on my behalf. Say what you want about NFTs, every time I see one of the homers sell it brings a big smile to my face.
- revolvingocelot 5y agoFrankly, I'm mocking it. Or trying to. Riffing on it? NFTs strike me as obvious nonsense -- why not use all that energy for something more useful, like piping /dev/urandom to /dev/null -- but NFT sales of obvious nonsense, of an algorithmic corruption of an artistic representation of a shared cultural totem, are almost high art. Like, unpleasantly high art. Way too high art. Art that makes me want to go lie down for a bit.
- Apofis 5y agoIt's just digital trading cards, like pokemon or baseball cards. Just amateurs are running the show now, but the NBA already got in on this, so if you want something more legit: https://nbatopshot.com/ https://nbatopshot.com/
- revolvingocelot 5y agoHey now, they're not just "digital trading cards, like pokemon or baseball cards"! They're also an enormous waste of resources! Yeesh. At least collectors of sports memorabilia have some memorabilia to admire. I can't imagine what value-add there is for "NBA Top Shots" that I can't replicate by backing up a short clip of the play. My solution is more durable, too!
- netcan 5y agoPlease say you take requests.
- turtlesoup 5y agoPress "write your own" and it'll make up a definition for you :)
- shermablanca 5y ago"excremulant" Somewhat inspired by your homer work :) https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/QcRs https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/QcRs
- swayvil 5y agodoes the definition exist or is that machine-generated too?
- turtlesoup 5y agoBoth definitions and words are machine generated!
- swayvil 5y agoimpressive
- weisk 5y agoWell duh obviously it exists, arent you reading it? Therefore it falls in the realm of existence lol jk, im just fucking around with the semantics of words here. However I have to admit, this thought about existence or truthfulness of concepts or statements being spitted out by unsentient machines that mix and match infinite "real" patterns, has me quite worried... Sometimes I find myself reading at a whole discussion thread, and I get the uncomfortable sensation that everything I've been reading is a bunch of bots training each other's models... Not quite when the concepts are complex enough, all right, it is easy to spot pointless mouthfuls deviations of a main subject being discussed, but what about, for example, the user reviews on an amazon product? Or a youtube's vid comment section? Or whatever shit you consume from the internet. I'm by no means any expert in the subject, and current state of the art of the Turing test, but I've seen just enough GPT-3 whichcraft to start being totally skeptical about anything I see online. sorry for the huge rant, but i took a great effort to make it sound like its coming from a real person XD also, to @turtlesoup: Thank you, that was wonderful. I hope you enjoy this cup of coffee too :-)
- dools 5y agoHas it generated a word for the noise you make after sipping a cup of tea or a cold drink? The “ahhhh” sound. I nominate the word “fonce” if it’s not already taken. “The pair sat foncing so noisily over their hot cups of tea that it drove everyone else from the room”
- aasasd 5y ago> https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com I'm now more interested in how the transitions are made than in the generators per se.
- turtlesoup 5y agoI'd suggest this code to follow: https://github.com/lucidrains/stylegan2-pytorch/blob/fc22408b238a2ff5d016468adfdd9c8a53cda5f2/stylegan2_pytorch/stylegan2_pytorch.py#L1286 https://github.com/lucidrains/stylegan2-pytorch/blob/fc22408.... The standard practice is to interpolate between the source latents and target latents and feed the interpolated values into your GAN. There are various ways of doing interpolation (i.e. not always straight linear interpolation)
- scoot 5y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962
- francoisdevlin 5y agoSo I just had a hit on a real word (pejorative), not sure if that's the plan or not https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/oLvV https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/oLvV
- asdf3243245q 5y agoThe word linked above is "perjorative", which is one letter away from being a real word.
- bashinator 5y agoI think what it does with real words is almost more interesting. The definition it picked for the word "real" was accurate, but kind of odd. If I recall correctly, "real" was defined as, "committed", or "dedicated", as in "real fans only like the vinyl edition of that record." Which is like, true for sure, but not in the top 10 things I'd think of first.
- smegcicle 5y ago>adjective. >real > very high opinion or commitment. > "it is not the kind of performance that real fans would listen to" >abbreviation. >miles > millions; a billion. > "miles of people traveling in miles"
- elb2020 5y agoI agree. It does the same with for instance "ballsy", which it defines as "stunning and stylish", as in "the ballsy pink dress".
- bashinator 5y agoI just thought of it. Kind of terrific crossword clues.
- bix6 5y agoFantastic work! How did you learn to make the Homers? I would love to create something like this.
- hyperpallium2 5y agoWhat's the meaning of "liff"?
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- disconcision 5y agohmm. out of 5 words i generated, two actually exist: bioamine and bioprocessor.
- joshspankit 5y agoYou may have just done more to bastardize the english language than all the slang of the past 10 years. And by that I mean that the words are good enough that people will use them and lexicographers will have no choice but to add them to dictionaries.
- capitainenemo 5y agoRegrettably I hit refresh, but one word it said did not exist was "geochronology" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochronology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochronology
- rendall 5y agoIt writes Wikipedia articles too? Thus the Singularity begins.
- danans 5y agoThe "word" segmentation seems pretty off, even for these hallucinated words and meanings. Are they generated by the same model?
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- askvictor 5y agothiscrossworddoesnotexist could be fun and perhaps devilish.
- wodenokoto 5y agoDo you do inference on every visit? What is the cost of being on the front page?
- baxter001 5y agoAlways curious of how you walk around the latent space in these, are you just linearly interpolating between two random high dimension points?
- rendall 5y agoIt would be glorious if we could share definitions. Who wouldn't want to tweet "chadocracy"? or "prospectivism, the belief that an action will have a good outcome".
- elb2020 5y agoIt's got a good grasp on the difference between Norwegian and Swedish, I see; it defines Norwegian as "very light, quiet, or peaceful; tranquil", as in "we live our lives Norwegian in a quiet quiet city", and Swedish as "wicked or excessively wicked", as in "his swedish exploits". Haha...
- torgard 5y agoThis is cracking me up LOL It would be an amazing screensaver, just iterations upon iterations of Fucked Up Homers.
- leoc 5y agoI first got 'rudimentally' which certainly does already exist although it's not the most popular of words.