Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others

[skndr]

This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash (https://ash-hq.org/) and is deployed on Fly.io.

Some fun ones:

- imagination and vacation -> fantasize

- enthusiasm and zeal -> fervor

- angry and hungry -> famished

- spoon and fork -> spork

[colanderman]

The pre-computer version of this is H. G. Burger's Wordtree [1]. It is an absolutely fascinating one-man project to "binomialize" the entire English vocabulary. It is worth owning just to read the bizarre and fascinating series of prefaces, in several of which Mr. Burger details his strongly held beliefs of a strong copyright system.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wordtree-Transitive-Cladistic-Physica...

[jaclaz]

>- spoon and fork -> spork

but also:

test and spoon -> spork

fork and knife -> spoon

fork and sword -> spoon

knife and sword -> dagger <- a good one

test and knife -> jest

test and sword -> quill

[Scaevolus]

Are you using embeddings, or a prompt where you ask GPT-3 to find a word between other words?

[loandigger]

Halfway between 'golfing' and 'drinking' is 'bowling'. Genius!

[gavmor]

cowboy and paint -> draw

Well I laughed.

[blackboxlogic]

sock -> hat = hock I can see that logic

[steve_adams_86]

one and infinity -> half infinity

Well, sure

Edit:

sex and pooping -> ejaculation

I know I went too far… But what a response

[bitsinthesky]

Very fun project that I'll probably use. However i can't get the website to connect on mobile.

[skndr]

Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.

[bitsinthesky]

This would make a good game. Predict the halfway word!

[1970-01-01]

pool and ocean

"Swimming hole"

much less than 1/2. It's a fun toy. One more:

bread and cake

"Braike"

Oh dear, you're hallucinating again.

[thfuran]

>One and one... One and a half

I have my doubts.

[lightbendover]

great and best => excellent

excellent and best => great

[skndr]

Must have come from the Möbius strip dimension.

[borromakot]

Hey there! Creator of Ash here. Mind if I tweet about this?

[sph]

What does Ash do? The main page is full of buzzwords and I have no idea what it provides over Phoenix or if it is something that runs on top of it.

[skndr]

Go for it! Really enjoying it :)

[devnull3]

I tried "Trump" and "Biden" out came the answer = "indifference" :)