[HN Gopher] Nonsense Laboratory
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       Nonsense Laboratory
        
       Author : bdr
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2021-05-10 19:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (artsexperiments.withgoogle.com)
        
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       | efferifick wrote:
       | Here's another model to generate nonsensical words.:
       | https://www.soybomb.com/tricks/words/
        
         | dminor wrote:
         | Here's something similar I made awhile back:
         | http://password.supply
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         | It uses Markov chains to pick the next letter (the current
         | state is the previous two letters)
        
       | some_random wrote:
       | This is wonderful.
        
       | teddyh wrote:
       | I 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".
        
       | ling3 wrote:
       | I would love to know how this project came about. Is this the
       | famed 20% time?
        
       | Y_Y wrote:
       | This 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 wrote:
         | I hit the "play" button on the SEQUENCER 5 times hoping it
         | would say the word out-loud for me :)
        
       | kungito wrote:
       | What would be a related use of this? How come they funded this?
        
         | eihli wrote:
         | https://www.creativitypost.com/article/spinning_plates_and_t...
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         | "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...
        
         | mattkrause wrote:
         | A 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.
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         | [0]:
         | https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/jsp/drugportal/DrugN...
        
           | barbazoo wrote:
           | Interesting but I somehow don't see why Google would spend
           | engineering time on what sounds like less of an engineering
           | problem.
        
             | mattkrause wrote:
             | It 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.
        
         | smnrchrds wrote:
         | Maybe someone up in the chain liked this too much:
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
        
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