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   by dictionaryfeed 4y ago

   This is awesome! Unfortunately, I didn't get today's word though. Anyone get it? :)
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   by dictionaryfeed 5y ago

   If you happen to see this, feel free to ignore this entire post. :)
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   by dictionaryfeed 5y ago

   This was just for fun to show people how to post to HackerNews. I hope that you all have a great day! :)
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   Post for Fall 2021 class to demonsration how to share with HN community

   1 points by dictionaryfeed 5y ago|3 comments
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   Startup School project gets featured for Subreddit of The Day on Reddit

   1 points by dictionaryfeed 7y ago|0 comments
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   by dictionaryfeed 7y ago

   Thank you very much for the comment and helpful feedback. :)
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   by dictionaryfeed 7y ago

   I tried posting several months ago, but a lovely HN user encouraged me to post again with a different title / format. Thank you!
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   by dictionaryfeed 7y ago

   Note: This is a free app and I do not profit from it. Over 16,000 translations are crowdsourced from users.
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   Show HN: Word of the Hour – a language learning app sharing one word every hour

   2 points by dictionaryfeed 7y ago|4 comments
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    Word of the Hour is featured on ProductHunt(producthunt.com)

    1 points by dictionaryfeed 8y ago|0 comments
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    Open-Source Kitten Takes a Nybble Out of Arduino Market – Engineering.com(engineering.com)

    1 points by dictionaryfeed 8y ago|0 comments
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    Cutest robotic kitten that I've ever seen goes viral(indiegogo.com)

    3 points by dictionaryfeed 8y ago|2 comments
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Hi there!! Thanks for the message. Your solution sounds pretty neat, but there are a few things that make me a little bit skeptical of your comment. Would be happy to discuss and learn more. :)
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    New Bin Picking Solution Developed by Lean Team of Engineers(engineering.com)

    29 points by dictionaryfeed 9y ago|6 comments
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    What is this? :)
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    Computer generated artwork utilizing concepts from shallow machine learning(youtube.com)

    1 points by dictionaryfeed 9y ago|0 comments
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    /r/Dictionary is featured as Subreddit of the Day(reddit.com)

    1 points by dictionaryfeed 9y ago|0 comments
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Thanks also for pointing out the word querulous! I don't think that the first tree that Treegle generates is so great. You have to click querulous a few times to get better trees. :)
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Cool!! Thank you very much for sharing!! I actually never heard of Wordo until now. Do you work with Wordo? If so, wanta collaborate? :)
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Thank you for your feedback! Yes, that is an issue that I've heard many times. I've tried to solve it many different ways. The issue is that the definition has to be readable while also conveying that the words are clickable wit
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Thank you very much for the follow-up reply in regards to this! The worst definition that I've found is if you search the word "hello". However, I actually like the first definition of the word "word" quite a bit.
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Thank you very much for the feedback! So I actually talked with a dictionary expert that was a developer for WordNet. He told me that he spent tons of time trying to determine which definition is the right one. He came to the conclusion t
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Thank you again! I really appreciate all of your thoughtful feedback. Yeah, one way of measuring connectivity is counting how many definitions that a word appears in. Also, yeah, sometimes there are text artifacts in definitions and words
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    I used Online Plain Text English Dictionary. It's public domain and based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). I had to do quite a bit of cleaning and statistics to improve the definition formatting and ordering. I
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    by dictionaryfeed 9y ago

    Thank you so much for the kind comment! I really appreciate it. Yes, it is fun to just keep clicking and see where it goes. I actually did some ranking to measure the connectivity of words in the dictionary that I used. I made this littl
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    How can you learn a word without knowing the words within its definition?

    6 points by dictionaryfeed 9y ago|16 comments