Notajoo t1_jd1uekj wrote on March 21, 2023 at 5:51 AM

It seems to work well overall but the “closeness” is very misleading. It seems that any word with “ing” had a close rating. “Hiking” gave a 99.35% rating when it’s actually not directly related or very close to the spelling of the answer. Very misleading.

Professionalchump t1_jd22xmn wrote on March 21, 2023 at 7:52 AM

It must not mean spelling but a rough estimate of how closely related the topics are to eachother

Notajoo t1_jd23ch2 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 7:58 AM

But are hiking and camping that close? You hike to go find a camping spot in most cases, so I get that. But as a hobby are they really 99.35% similar? Not IMO.

Professionalchump t1_jd23qgx wrote on March 21, 2023 at 8:04 AM

I'd argue they are because think of how many countless things AREN'T related to camping at all and that's like, most things

Notajoo t1_jd24a3o wrote on March 21, 2023 at 8:12 AM

So if I put in “fire building” that should be 99% similar?” “Tent building”? “Survivalism”? “Foraging”?

There are so many other things related to camping and hiking and survivalists.

To be clear, my main complaint is the “closeness” rating. I think it could be fine tuned. Also, I asked if it involved multiple people and it said yes. Solo camping is definitely a thing.

PM_UR_NUMBER_IN_HEX t1_jd2ncld wrote on March 21, 2023 at 12:15 PM

99.5% is high, but for long hikes you would be camping anyway, and you ofte n need to hike to your campground. And even if you're not camping you probably need to be prepared to camp if something happens. So maybe 85%

No_Yak8345 OP t1_jd36zag wrote on March 21, 2023 at 2:47 PM

Hi, so I am still working how best to describe the concept of closeness but it doesn't mean similarity. It's a percentile score. 100% means the secret word itself. The word hiking compared to all other words was semantically the closest to the secret word. I've noticed that the inflated number sometimes throws people off so I'm working on a way to fix that

DameonKormar t1_jd237b4 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 7:56 AM

Yea. I got totally off track because I thought the closeness was to the meaning/context, not the spelling. Got 97% for "cooking" and spiraled from there.