[YeGoblynQueenne]

Hey, so, I know everyone is complaining about their favourite castle/fortress/palace missing but... it's missing the Acropolis.

The Acropolis, in Athens. There's no more famous castle than that. Or fortress, whatever you want to call it.

I get that this is vibe coded but I really wonder how the data was compiled. This will take serious effort to fix if it's so deficient it doesn't include the most famous castle of all. And I don't mean it will take iterating the vibe coding, this needs serious knowledge work that I don't think an LLM is sufficient for, sorry.

[MengerSponge]

Bro. The Acropolis is a temple.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

"Bro", the Parthenon is a temple. The Acropolis is a citadel.

The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens

In fact, that's what "acropolis" (small a) means: it's Greek for "citadel".

And what is a "citadel"?

[ux266478]

The distinction does make sense, as castles (formally speaking) are medieval structures, but clearly that didn't matter because the map has other ancient acropoleis. Even putting that aside, the relationship between 'aκρόπολη' and 'castle' is a pretty trivial latent feature that a transformer is literally, mathematically designed to capture. Briefly interrogated an LLM on the matter and they struggled with the classification too. Definitely an interesting failure point. I wonder if it's because of semantic dilution. Like, because the training data had so much on the Athens acropolis which is non-castle related, that the fact ended up living in a long tail for that specific acropolis. I bet a higher precision model wouldn't have done this. Quantization sucks!