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How a Stylistic, Machine-Generated Thesaurus Impacts a Writer’s Process
The thesaurus sucks. You can always tell when a writer is using a thesaurus and random words are substituted to sound smart. The problem is the thesaurus has a bad architecture. It's flat. Everything connects to everything (the original sin), and it treats every synonym as equal (they're not!). Since we don't have a hierarchy of "core words" and "s
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Several participants wanted to be able to use Wordcraft to facilitate access to information. The idea of using the language model as a search engine repeatedly came up. In MT’s words: “I can’t read the entire internet or all the books by my favorite authors, but I can use a model like this one to leverage prolific catalogues” of information. DH hop
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A thesaurus is a word treasury.
Writing isn’t just how I communicate ideas or discoveries; it’s how I come up with them in the first place.