{"id":477,"date":"2022-10-28T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:18:45","slug":"puzzle-63-ai-feat-rose-sloan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/28\/puzzle-63-ai-feat-rose-sloan\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #63: AI (feat. Rose Sloan!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iOORIsYvgCY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/AI.ipuz\">iPuz Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/AI.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of you might remember <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/tabula_rasa.jpz\">our very silly take<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/thedelicounter.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/tabula-rasa-project.html\">meatdaddy&#8217;s Tabula Rasa project<\/a>. We didn&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> do anything interesting there, just taking the four most important words (as per <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tf%E2%80%93idf\">TF-IDF<\/a>) found in clues for each entry and presenting them in descending order of importance. The end result was funny, but the computer-generated clues didn&#8217;t really look like <strong>clues<\/strong>.  The thing is &#8230; I don&#8217;t know how to make them look more like clues. But I know someone who does!<\/p>\n<p>Rose is <a href=\"https:\/\/acrosswordrose.blogspot.com\/\">an excellent crossword constructor<\/a> and a natural language processing expert who I was thrilled to learn wanted to work on a better version of a clue-writing bot. I sent her the code that created the original AI clues and she almost immediately got back to me with a better version. In fact, that version was <strong>too<\/strong> good at writing clues, so she made it a little dumber and the result is what you see here. We mostly let the code do its thing, with only two minor exceptions where it resulted in difficult crossings. Oh, and there are four other exceptions, but you&#8217;ll be able to identify those.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norahsharpe.com\/\">Norah<\/a> for testing this one! We&#8217;ll hear more from her soon &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/AI.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Some of you might remember our very silly take on meatdaddy&#8217;s Tabula Rasa project. We didn&#8217;t really do anything interesting there, just taking the four most important words (as per TF-IDF) found in clues for each entry and presenting them in descending order of importance. The end result&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/28\/puzzle-63-ai-feat-rose-sloan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #63: AI (feat. Rose Sloan!)&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,6],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collabs","category-crosswords","category-puzzles","tag-rose-sloan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}