Training Log Archive: j-man

I wrote a little routine to play the (Boris) word game. It took a little less than an hour, but it is semi-ineffective.

I spent most of the time trying to get a dictionary file. I felt a little dirty. It seems like most of the demand for these things are for password crackers.

So, I got one with about 55K words, but it also contained some proper names, which I had to strip out. Leaving me with 48,150, which isn't dense enough.

But, if I get a file with the right density, I should at least "guess" optimally. The interesting question would then become how and why will humans guess better/faster than my routine?

If I were to pick a word randomly from my dictionary, there is not reason a person would be faster than my perfect slicer algorithm? Is there? ESP? (Kidding... although I'm open to suggestions...)