Pencil cloud
- Charlie Reams
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Thought I'd try presenting some data in a new way. Will be interested to hear what people make of the pencil cloud.
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Virtual fun size Mars Bar for the first person to capture the arch-pencil-evader PEINED!
(Have seen these word clouds before... I think Q Magazine (yuck) brought them to my attention by feeding the entire lyrical output of Oasis into a word cloud. I'll let you know if it helps me to remember the unpencilled words, if I ever nab one of them.)
(Have seen these word clouds before... I think Q Magazine (yuck) brought them to my attention by feeding the entire lyrical output of Oasis into a word cloud. I'll let you know if it helps me to remember the unpencilled words, if I ever nab one of them.)
- Kirk Bevins
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Is it supposed to aid memory? It is worse for that IMO as there's too much information. I printed out a list of unpencilled words by length earlier this year and it was relatively easy to memorise given that it was in a list. A cloud like that is just too much information packed in too small a space, imo.Matt Bayfield wrote:Virtual fun size Mars Bar for the first person to capture the arch-pencil-evader PEINED!
(Have seen these word clouds before... I think Q Magazine (yuck) brought them to my attention by feeding the entire lyrical output of Oasis into a word cloud. I'll let you know if it helps me to remember the unpencilled words, if I ever nab one of them.)
- Jon O'Neill
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I don't think it's for aiding memory, just a nice visual representation. More please.Kirk Bevins wrote:Is it supposed to aid memory? It is worse for that IMO as there's too much information. I printed out a list of unpencilled words by length earlier this year and it was relatively easy to memorise given that it was in a list. A cloud like that is just too much information packed in too small a space, imo.Matt Bayfield wrote:Virtual fun size Mars Bar for the first person to capture the arch-pencil-evader PEINED!
(Have seen these word clouds before... I think Q Magazine (yuck) brought them to my attention by feeding the entire lyrical output of Oasis into a word cloud. I'll let you know if it helps me to remember the unpencilled words, if I ever nab one of them.)
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Haha I knew I could rely on you to object to anything new, Kirk. Thanks for the feedback all.
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Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?
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I tried posthock probability once, it didn't work out too well.Charlie Reams wrote:Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?
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Evidently you're not a probability genius.Michael Wallace wrote:I tried posthock probability once, it didn't work out too well.Charlie Reams wrote:Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?
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Peined (pwned).Michael Wallace wrote:I tried posthock probability once, it didn't work out too well.Charlie Reams wrote:Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?
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Davies may have got to PEINED first, but by learning a few of the words with more obvious anagrams (DEFINES, STAINED, PARTIES, BOARDER, PLEASE, MAIDEN, NASTIES, SEATING, LOCATES, GUARDS, RETAIL), I've nabbed one from the cloud: ARTELI.
So it has worked, kinda!
So it has worked, kinda!
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Not to mention RODLETS, which has the more obvious anagram OLDSTER.
Mike Brown: "Round 12: T N R S A E I G U
C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)
Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."
C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)
Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."