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by bee_rider 1139 days ago
I got ocean->radio

My path:

Ocean-> waves -> amplitude -> radio

Solution path:

Ocean -> air —> radio

It seems odd that waves could be less closely related to radio than air.

I wonder if there’s some homonym issue with wave or something like that?

Edit:

Similarly, I got a random puzzle:

Heat -> Bar

“Pressure” seams like it ought to be a good guess. But apparently Heat and pressure are 29% related (ok! Seems reasonable). But bar and pressure are only 7% related despite a bar being a unit of pressure.

The solution was to add kilobar between bar and pressure, which is fine I guess.

2 comments

I got the same ocean->radio How is 'waves' not a qualifying word?
I don’t know… in particular, I don’t really have a good intuition for word embedding closeness at all.
Same here. I just concluded that this is probably not that well implemented.
I bet it is a good implementation of word vectors. I just have no intuition for how word vectors work (does the presence of homonyms which are far from the pairing result in a less close pairing, for example?)