[mmastrac]

I find these to be less-than-ideal puzzles. For example, (no spoilers) today's puzzle answer is an abstract concept X, and two very common examples of X score both higher and lower (83 vs 7) than words that are much further away IMO (29).

[eternalban]

It's interesting that it works. (179->150->13->1 for me. [I think it is more interesting to discuss paths instead of x and neighbors. A graph plotting all successful paths so far would be ++interesting to see. I wonder if a certain common final sub-path (like above) occur. And which one is it?])

Can we actually assert a 'natural semantic order'? I've always thought this was a fundamental aspect of our cognition, that we have 2 distinct ways of ordering: names and numbers. Outside of lexical ordering (which is ordering a representation not the things themselves), names can at best be ordered in a DAG. Pretty much half of computer science is converting names into numbers so we can compute over them.

[jasonjmcghee]

Semantle (of which this appears to be a clone) uses cosine similarity with word2vec from my understanding and it felt much more intuitive.