alt Hacker NewsThanks for your response. Getting feedback like "hot or cold" in the algorithm's mind is exactly what I'm thinking of. It's a tricky issue and reminds me a lot of this: https://www.datcreativity.com/
I had tried hard to pick a set of fairly simple words, thinking I had an intricately unique association in my head, only to find out that the reported connections were nothing more than average. My partner obviously landed in an extremely high percentile by instantly picking the first words that came to her without much thought.
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Thanks for that datcreativity.com link. My score was 94.11, higher than 99.88% of the people who have completed this task! I should hope so after working on relations for years. ;)
My words were: apple, shotgun, stardust, anger, hygiene, etymology, proctology, slant, dictator, and displacement.
For good or bad, Semantle is able to report hot/cold because it's vector-based. We tried a few types of vectors, but I thought they were consistently unintuitive. So the best (and most relevant) proxy is remaining shortest distance-to-target, but often the player is only two hops away (spanning 17^2=289 options), and when they go astray and are much further, it's computationally too slow to look out more than 5 hops with brute force.