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Fixed: I missed Z and got X instead ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Pretty cool. I'm a bit of a master at picking the wrong choices in Wordle.
I recall the NYTimes said less than 50% of players solved the PARER solution recently. On average the puzzle solving success is closer to 99%.
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I got PARER only because one of my starters has an R in the middle. My streak would be 99 or 100 except I did one on the wrong computer and it didn't go in my stats. I know, I know, get a free NYT account...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have not yet seen a 5 letter Wordle that is simply a 4 letter word with an "s" on the end of it to make it a plural. But i have only been playing for a few weeks. Are simple plurals "allowed"?
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I hope not, but they would run out of a words quicker.
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I have no idea what is and isn't on the Wordle word list.
(Not quite true; I've discovered a few that weren't there when I expected them to be.)
As I said in my original message, I started with the standard Linux word list, which I think is targeted at naive spellcheckers.
And although I've played 150+ Wordles, my average retention time of the answer is measured in minutes.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Debugging a bit, words aren't verified via a webservice; there's an embedded wordlist. If you look at the page source in the Chrome debugger, it's under www.nytimes.com / games-assets/v2 in a .js file starting "wordle." I guess the long GUID in the rest of the filename may vary by user etc, but it's easy enough to identify. The wordlist starts at around offset 33900, and appears to be in a random order:
ft=["cigar","rebut","sissy","humph","awake"...
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People who have dug a bit deeper tell me that there are two embedded word lists - one is the "dictionary" of what it recognises as words, the other is the ordered list of daily solutions. (probably the one you found)
Re another subthread above, they also say there are no plurals in the list, so the analysis in my OP is, as I suspected, biased.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Open about junction (5)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OVERT - open
OVER - about
T - junction
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yay - YAUM
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The formatting has been garbled for me for a couple of weeks, but it only affects Chrome.
Clearing Microsoft cookies doesn't help, and it works fine in Edge.
Gotta be a setting somewhere, because MS wouldn't deliberately bork Chrome pages just to get people to use Edge, would they? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: MS wouldn't deliberately bork Chrome pages just to get people to use Edge, would they?
I'm shocked, shocked, that you would think such unworthy thoughts about those selfless benefactors of Humanity in Redmond!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They use DBAs to write chrome specific CSS.
Something has happened to Chrome. I see the font has changed for me.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Looks fine for me in Chrome 105.
Maybe it's something to do with switching from docs.microsoft.com to learn.microsoft.com?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Still perfectly clear for me - Google Chrome 105.0.5195.127
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Interesting. I just tried it in an incognito tab and ... it works fine.
Strange - I deleted "microsoft" cookies earlier to see if that did anything useful, but no.
At a guess it's a cookie somewhere, but not under MS. Sod it - that'll be fun to find.
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Yeah,
I remember just a few years ago everyone was making fun of the 'AI' buzzwords. Yet here we are today. I can say that I am absolutely blown away by what I'm seeing.
Check out some of these (over 7000) generated images.
Generated: 7,240 images generated with DALL•E 2 prompts
What do you think?
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I love diffusion AI but you have to remember it's simply taking lots and lots and lots of images from actual artists and just mushing them up robotically. Very, very cool effects, but there's no actual creativity here (it just looks creative because we humans generally don't review a million images and keep them all firmly planted in our heads)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah,
But I think it looks really useful. I can envision it being used as a creativity assistant. Where the human artist uses it as a tool to augment their work.
I found the papers that describes how it works, but it's not something I'm able to understand.
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I do agree that it's certainly useful. We've been throwing around ideas in the office about it this last week.
I saw an awesome explanation (with pics!) that explains some of the processed involved: The Annotated Diffusion Model. Just statistics and line fitting taken to an absurd level.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Maybe it will go evil and produce a long-lost Vermeer that sells for millions!
I'd like to see this approach applied to music. Maybe it can finish Bruckner's 9th or write Sibelius' 8th.
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Greg Utas wrote: Maybe it will go evil
I've already seen the 'naughty' images created with 'stable diffusion' and it does those very well.
Btw, I found a really easy to understand explanation of how it works: How DALL-E 2 Actually Works
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Pictures or it didn't happen. 
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