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.
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:
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