Square Theory | Adam Aaronson
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The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes delightful town square where total noobs, veteran constructors, and champion solvers alike come together to talk about words that cross each other.
  • m_f@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Thought this was really interesting. Talks about a particular word problem and expands into crossword clues and what makes them satisfying. Also reminds me of word embeddings that current LLMs run on, such as the classic “King - Man + Woman = Queen” example:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec

    The HN comments also have some good comments about various word games they’ve played