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New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 23:02:24 +0000

defined https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/Elonzi%20Scheme/eyJ3I...

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 22:48:15 +0000

Thanks! I just fixed it

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 21:16:28 +0000

Just pushed a change to update the blacklist (collapsing hyphens / spaces to single words); it'll never be perfect but hopefully slightly better!

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 21:11:08 +0000

What about REFACTOROLOGY https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactorology/eyJ3Ijo...

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:48:14 +0000

Haha, no but that's neat. The generation process is a sampling procedure so "anything goes" and it can stumble on unlikely samples from time to time. I should probably filter out recursive ones!

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:15:51 +0000

Good call, when you press "generate your own" it tries to detect these and displays a little warning but my blacklist is not complete. My model is bolted on top of GPT-2 which used the web as a training set which is probably why some of these are popping up.

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:12:04 +0000

Amazing! I found https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ there a while back

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:07:49 +0000

Add to the list of reasons I wish I could change my HN name

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:55:46 +0000

My model is bolted onto GPT-2 which is trained on internet text; I think some of these examples are coming from there.

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:52:32 +0000

I'll give it a go! Seems pretty easy to replace the blacklist test with a WHOIS lookup.

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:42:00 +0000

Yup, press the "Generate your own button" on the site. If you want to go the other direction (definition to made-up word) you can hit up my twitter bot @robo_define: https://twitter.com/robo_define

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:37:05 +0000

Your noble spirit embiggens the smallest man

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:32:12 +0000

For slang, I'm training another modelusing urban dictionary as the datasource. I hope to release it someday but there is a lot of work to be done to clean the data. The articles are huge, user-generated and full of racism.

New comment by cosbynator in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

cosbynator — Wed, 13 May 2020 18:48:09 +0000

For example if it consumes lots of data that uses the pronoun "he" for doctor, it's much more likely to spit out "he" in a medical context.

Since the model lacks world knowledge for new words, sometimes it also ascribes words to a specific cultural origin / group that is completely wrong.

Emojineering Part 2: Implementing Hashtag Emoji

cosbynator — Wed, 06 May 2015 21:30:55 +0000

Article URL: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/118304328152/emojineering-part-2-implementing-hashtag-emoji

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501937

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends

cosbynator — Fri, 01 May 2015 22:51:29 +0000

Article URL: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/117889701472/emojineering-part-1-machine-learning-for-emoji

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9475004

Points: 23

# Comments: 0

New comment by cosbynator in "The Technology Behind Hyperlapse from Instagram"

cosbynator — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:24:09 +0000

Both Alex and I are from Toronto (we are the engineers on Hyperlapse). I shot it on a little visit at the start of the summer and it became our go-to demo. That water taxi is particularly windy, bumpy and beautiful.

New comment by cosbynator in "A History of Film in Wikipedia"

cosbynator — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 02:36:39 +0000

My post wasn't really aimed at a technical audience. It was more of "look what cool stuff we can do without looping in a human". I've given a slightly more technical introduction in my post on ranking universities: http://blog.argteam.com/coding/university-ranking-wikipedia/

It really is just PageRank. The source code is available on github https://github.com/cosbynator/WikiRank

New comment by cosbynator in "A History of Film in Wikipedia"

cosbynator — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:16:07 +0000

Good point - this is a view of the English speaking world as an aggregate. I'm hoping to re-run this experiment on non-US Wikipedia sites. If there are any interesting differences I'll try to put together a new visualization :)

New comment by cosbynator in "A History of Film in Wikipedia"

cosbynator — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:05:50 +0000

Cool! I didn't know about this. The score I compute is actually a PageRank, which takes into account the quality of inbound links rather than just the raw number. I'd be interested to try to see how well this correlates to page visits!