Exploring Word Chains

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Komentáře • 975

  • @97P96
    @97P96 Před 17 dny +2103

    Now combine the graphs with a rule of adding or removing a letter is also allowed, instead of swapping. Maybe there will be less islands then

    • @PunmasterSTP
      @PunmasterSTP Před 17 dny +257

      I was expecting him to do that near the end of the video! I'd definitely be interested to see a follow-up where letters could be added or removed as well, and I bet there'd be some interesting structure based on where you could or couldn't remove letters from...

    • @zepht
      @zepht Před 17 dny +30

      it would be so cool to see this, exactly what i was thinking

    • @oEQjet
      @oEQjet Před 17 dny +44

      I thought so as well, seems an obvious place to go, though the challenge here would be that it massively increases the number of nodes and edges, so even displaying such a graph might not be all that informative. It may even just blob the whole thing together.

    • @Willwantstobeawesome
      @Willwantstobeawesome Před 17 dny +50

      I think that would have a lot of paths shrinking down (even to one letter words) and then expanding back up

    • @telotawa
      @telotawa Před 17 dny +5

      was going to reply exactly this

  • @carykh
    @carykh Před 17 dny +437

    7:15 I was so curious what the large 2nd island was gonna be - it makes sense that it's all the -ING words, since it's easy to go from XXXing to YYYing, but not any non-ing words!

    • @Firefly256
      @Firefly256 Před 17 dny +14

      Woah Cary is here!

    • @Hotsilog_Gaming
      @Hotsilog_Gaming Před 17 dny +7

      Hello Cary one of the creators of bfdi and the creator of "scale of the universe"

    • @mackycabangon8945
      @mackycabangon8945 Před 17 dny +10

      Not surprised to see you are into data visualization Cary

    • @asheep7797
      @asheep7797 Před 17 dny +1

      Drary kh

    • @heichan8657
      @heichan8657 Před 17 dny +2

      woah wild cary caught

  • @nyuh
    @nyuh Před 17 dny +273

    5:51 "care" being the most connected word is so poetic

    • @Sunvy101
      @Sunvy101 Před 17 dny +9

      Synchronicity!
      Whenever I got to the "care" part of the video I also thought of that.
      And right after that this comment popped up in the single comments that are shown on top of CZcams comments.

    • @Sunvy101
      @Sunvy101 Před 17 dny +11

      And yeah...
      Care/Love is what connects everyone & everything.

    • @ClementinesmWTF
      @ClementinesmWTF Před 6 dny +2

      @@Sunvy101evidently, being mad does the same thing. Not so poetic, just a coincidence

  • @notwithouttext
    @notwithouttext Před 17 dny +209

    1:40 of these words, the ones i know are:
    aa - some type of lava
    qi - chinese natural force or something
    xu - a vietnamese currency
    cwm - cirque (in welsh)
    brrr - onomatopoeia for shivering
    zzzs - multiple zzz sounds, onomatopoeia for sleep
    crwth - some instrument (also from welsh)
    yclad - clothed, clad
    miaou - french spelling of "meow"

    • @pengil3
      @pengil3 Před 17 dny +39

      Of course the french spell it miaouxeuxe

    • @dfw-k6z
      @dfw-k6z Před 17 dny +26

      And Qibla is the direction to the Kaaba - the direction in which muslims pray.

    • @pyra9345
      @pyra9345 Před 17 dny +8

      ​@@pengil3actually in french, with the french accent, miaou is exactly how it should be spelled. french is a different language. meow. you go m, you go i, which in french sounds like e does in english, you go a, which is like the beginning of ow, and you go ou, which is like the end of ow. the only change you could make is turning ou into w, but w isn't a vowel is it?

    • @Friendly-Neighborhood-Asexual
      @Friendly-Neighborhood-Asexual Před 17 dny

      The ones you missed were:
      KY: Kentucky abbreviation
      Vly: some kind of swamp or marsh (Dutch origins)
      Ziz: apparently it doesn't have an official definition in Scrabble from what I can find
      Pht: also no Scrabble definition
      Euoi: another word for evoe, which is an archaic exclamation of Bacchic frenzy
      Hwyl: emotional fervor, as in the recitation of poetry
      Qibla: direction of the Kaaba

    • @benonaru
      @benonaru Před 17 dny

      shut up kid

  • @MooImABunny
    @MooImABunny Před 17 dny +574

    5:35 funny that isle is within one of the islands.
    The word isle had the s put in for actual historical reasons, but later they added an s to island because they thought it was related to isle. It wasn't.

    • @notwithouttext
      @notwithouttext Před 17 dny +22

      same with aisle

    • @DragonTheOneDZA
      @DragonTheOneDZA Před 17 dny +19

      Wait isle doesn't have to do with islands?

    • @soewithanumber
      @soewithanumber Před 17 dny +7

      i thought island was spelled that way because there is-land

    • @notwithouttext
      @notwithouttext Před 17 dny +74

      @@DragonTheOneDZA isle comes from french "ile", previously "isle", which comes from latin "insula", where we get "peninsula" (nearly an isle), "isolate" (to separate off like an isle), and "insulate" (also to separate off like an isle).
      island, on the other hand, comes from "yland", from old english "iegland". "ieg" is distantly related to "aqua", which is latin for water.

    • @comradecameron3726
      @comradecameron3726 Před 14 dny

      I dont remember that being accurate.
      As I recall some 400 or whatever years ago poets and scholars started adding letters that had fallen out of words over time back in for the hell of it.
      .
      I think we should overhaul english spelling. Seriously. I'd be willing to put time into this.
      .
      Just like what Teddy Roosevelt did back in the day. He is why we have "Jail" Instead of "Gaol"
      .
      Excise all silent letters and standardize at least in part the sounds of the alphabet.

  • @simple385
    @simple385 Před 17 dny +147

    for 100% completeness the 1 letter words are all connected [ I and A]
    they are both the start and end of the largest diameter ( I -> A or A ->I ) and they tie in largest degree at 1

    • @AllenKnutson
      @AllenKnutson Před 17 dny +33

      The graph of 0 letter words, by contrast, is not connected.
      Nor is it disconnected!
      If you want every graph to be uniquely the disjoint union of connected subgraphs, you'd better decide that the empty graph is not connected. Much like 1 is neither prime nor composite.

    • @CatLoverNightshade
      @CatLoverNightshade Před 12 dny +2

      The simulation of -1 letter words, to compare, is _imaginarily_ connected!
      It contains imaginary words that you can make by keyboard smashing, and however letters apart it is from a real word is its negative count.
      Permutations are about to get interesting.

    • @CatLoverNightshade
      @CatLoverNightshade Před 12 dny +1

      @@AllenKnutson​​⁠​⁠This is like the 0th dimension, where it is everything and nothing at the same time, containing itself but nonexistent. It toys with the idea of 0/0, which you could prove is indeterminate, meaning all real numbers!
      Everything is amazingly analogous to our universe and the idea of 1 in infinity, which is also infinite infinitesimal numbers in 1.
      Something can be infinity and 0 all at once.

    • @aformofmatter8913
      @aformofmatter8913 Před 4 dny +1

      O is also a 1 letter word
      But by definition, every 1 letter word is connected to every other because they're all 1 letter apart, no matter how many there are

  • @sawarinyan
    @sawarinyan Před 17 dny +268

    1:32 Miaou is how we do the cats noises in French! The Meow equivalent!

    • @4rumani
      @4rumani Před 17 dny +28

      ok why is that in an English language dictionary

    • @kijete
      @kijete Před 17 dny +33

      ​@@4rumani for funsies

    • @LeReubzRic
      @LeReubzRic Před 17 dny +10

      We do Miaow or Meow in the UK

    • @minirop
      @minirop Před 17 dny +15

      @@4rumani Harper Collins Scrabble dictionary has many words of many languages (scots, hindu, arabic, etc) because "UK/worldwide" whilst the merriam webster has (almost) none of them. Will Anderson made a video titled "Why Is The Scrabble Dictionary SO WEIRD?"

    • @4rumani
      @4rumani Před 17 dny

      @@minirop autism

  • @anguscos4506
    @anguscos4506 Před 17 dny +539

    your son has the coolest dad

  • @ebrdsht
    @ebrdsht Před 17 dny +378

    imagine coming home from school and telling your dad about a game you learned only for him to get just as, if not more, into it than you are. its so so so sweet

  • @IcelyPuzzles
    @IcelyPuzzles Před 17 dny +354

    this concept of word manipulation has interested me for a while and if anyone is looking for more stuff like this, there's an online game called Wordward Draw about changing a 4-letter word letter by letter (and also the steam game Lingo which is a rule discovery word puzzle game with a large amount of 'word changing' functions).
    one of the chain types that I want to see, and I don't know if anyone's ever done, is doing this but with synonyms or antonyms, like what's the farthest (fair) seeming synonym or antonym chain? one interesting puzzle like this I wrote was 'RAISE -> FOLD -> DECREASE -> RAISE' which I think is an incredible antonym cycle (using a different pair of meanings for each one in the cycle). also I just want to say I really appreciate the visualization in this video :)

    • @fifablockly9752
      @fifablockly9752 Před 17 dny +39

      CBA

    • @lbqg637
      @lbqg637 Před 17 dny +29

      hello chess battle advanced

    • @darkshoxx
      @darkshoxx Před 17 dny +24

      Do I even have to say it...?
      CHESS->BATTLE->ADVANCED
      On a more serious note, I remember these "Word ladders" both from an old game I had on CD and a puzzle book my parents had. Wonder where that ended up...

    • @CodeParade
      @CodeParade  Před 17 dny +86

      Thanks! Yeah it's hard to find any good antonym or synonym datasets, most of them really stretch the definition to include too many things, it's very subjective what should count.

    • @geeteevee7667
      @geeteevee7667 Před 17 dny +6

      hello mr. cba

  • @cobaltbluesky2276
    @cobaltbluesky2276 Před 17 dny +94

    idk if this is adressed later but the one at 0:48 you can go aim -> arm -> are -> age

    • @TrackpadProductions
      @TrackpadProductions Před 17 dny +4

      Or AIM - ATM - ATE - AGE, that's the one I got

    • @cobaltbluesky2276
      @cobaltbluesky2276 Před 17 dny +34

      @@TrackpadProductions i think ATM being an abbreviation wouldn't really count as a word

    • @stickguy9109
      @stickguy9109 Před 17 dny +1

      So this isn't necessarily finding the shortest path

    • @Riverperson_4
      @Riverperson_4 Před 17 dny +3

      huh, i went aim-ail-all-ale-age

    • @Spoomguy
      @Spoomguy Před 17 dny +3

      Ahhhhhhhhhhh, I went Aim -> Alm -> Ale -> Age

  • @nathanael.higgerson
    @nathanael.higgerson Před 17 dny +168

    0:21 CBT is real, I do it every day 😤

    • @htspencer9084
      @htspencer9084 Před 17 dny +25

      Hopefully the therapy kind and not the torture kind!

    • @TheRabbitPoet
      @TheRabbitPoet Před 17 dny +24

      ​@@htspencer9084if that's what they're into, who are we to judge

    • @vytah
      @vytah Před 17 dny +18

      from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 Před 14 dny +3

      I knew that somebody was going to leave this comment.

    • @northernsines
      @northernsines Před 13 dny

      I can help with that

  • @DrakiniteOfficial
    @DrakiniteOfficial Před 17 dny +73

    Wow, it's so great that you were able to get your son interested in network theory by nerding out about a game he learned!
    By the way, nice touch adding emoji each time you read out a word. Helps out when it's a word that not everyone might remember.

  • @PianoMastR64
    @PianoMastR64 Před 17 dny +81

    When I was like 12, I tried to start an email chain that was exactly this except I allowed you to add or remove letters. They still had to be real words. The chain never took off, but I still loved the idea

    • @Swagpion
      @Swagpion Před 17 dny +1

      I played a mobile game like that.

  • @donotdew
    @donotdew Před 17 dny +162

    0:22 oh trust me CBT is *definitely* a word

    • @Mukuta_Pavlov
      @Mukuta_Pavlov Před 17 dny +10

      NO!!!!

    • @Bulba413
      @Bulba413 Před 17 dny +38

      it actually has more than one meaning! cognitive behavioral therapy and. you know

    • @donotdew
      @donotdew Před 17 dny +18

      @@Bulba413 yes i meant cognitive behavioral therapy. does it have another meaning or something

    • @EggBastion
      @EggBastion Před 17 dny

      yeah it means broken
      don't it?

    • @yeetus5763
      @yeetus5763 Před 17 dny +18

      @@Bulba413closed beta testing?

  • @Minty7602
    @Minty7602 Před 17 dny +37

    “Orgy” and “sexy ”being all alone is quite ironic

  • @tird_boi4206
    @tird_boi4206 Před 17 dny +26

    I actually had this idea as a kid. A few months ago, I wrote a script that found the shortest chain between any 2 words. In all 49,995,000 combinations of the 10,000 most common English words, the longest shortest chain I found was 26 long (actually, there was a many-way tie): having -> saving -> saying -> staying -> stating -> seating -> eating -> mating -> making -> baking -> biking -> hiking -> hiring -> firing -> fixing -> mixing -> mining -> dining -> diving -> living -> loving -> losing -> posing -> posting -> postings. Looking at it now, it's a bit strange that they're all 6-7 letter words. Maybe there was a mistake in my code, or the solution happens to be this way.

    • @veldrovive9442
      @veldrovive9442 Před 16 dny

      I tried it out with the dataset CodeParade used and got a 46 chain: hammerings -> hammering -> hampering -> pampering -> papering -> capering -> catering -> cantering -> bantering -> battering -> bettering -> fettering -> festering -> pestering -> petering -> peering -> peeing -> seeing -> sewing -> swing -> sing -> sine -> mine -> mire -> mere -> metre -> metred -> metered -> petered -> pestered -> festered -> fettered -> bettered -> battered -> bantered -> cantered -> catered -> capered -> papered -> pampered -> hampered -> hammered -> yammered. Interesting that the longest chain always seems to start or end with an "-ing".

    • @lacavernedug33k
      @lacavernedug33k Před 10 dny

      So you did have it so that you can also remove or add letters, right? Then the rules are a little different I guess.
      Also he did find a chain that is 29 letters long with only 5 letters words and his stricter rules (at 6:27) so either you had less words, or your code really didn't find the longest connection !

    • @tird_boi4206
      @tird_boi4206 Před 10 dny

      @@lacavernedug33k Yeah, it could add or remove letters. He found a 29-long chain because he was looking for the longest chain in general, while I was trying to find the largest chain in the set of all shortest chains between all permutations of the 10,000 most common words.

  • @jblen
    @jblen Před 13 dny +5

    It's so nice your sons curiosity influenced this project. The fact he wanted to challenge himself with harder words is a good sign for his future, and tackling the problem rather than just going 'it's too complex' is setting a great example. I still don't know if I want to be a parent at all but this is the kind of parent I want to be.

  • @SpencerTwiddy
    @SpencerTwiddy Před 17 dny +32

    This almost felt like a carykh video. I enjoyed watching!

    • @gavinarad2288
      @gavinarad2288 Před 13 dny +1

      That’s funny, because Cary actually commented on this!

    • @SpencerTwiddy
      @SpencerTwiddy Před 13 dny

      @@gavinarad2288 whoa, he got my bat signal lol

  • @Ryco117
    @Ryco117 Před 17 dny +12

    Fun coincidence that the connection power of "care" is so strong ❤

  • @AsiccAP
    @AsiccAP Před 17 dny +423

    CBT is definitely not a word but i feel like ive heard of it before
    Edit: Dang, no way I got more likes than carykh and icely puzzles. Go like their comments, their comments are way more relevant to the video lmao, and icely proposes an alternate ruleset for the game. Also watch their videos, cary makes cool videos and projects, and icely does puzzles (duh).

  • @zer0mar322
    @zer0mar322 Před 17 dny +13

    1:35 "Qibla" popped out to me among all the other jumbled letters, as it is an English transliteration of an Arabic word that's very important in the context of Islam. The qibla is the direction Muslims must pray in on a daily basis. When speaking in English, qibla is rarely translated, because there isn't exactly a singular word in English it accurately translates to. Therefore, it is written out very often in English. I guess you could call it a loanword?

  • @HiFish74
    @HiFish74 Před 17 dny +34

    1:35 "BRRR" is a word and you can't convince me otherwise!!!

    • @nathanjohnson2066
      @nathanjohnson2066 Před 17 dny +1

      Really? It doesn't have a vowel, so it cannot produce sound, so it's not a word. It's typically pronounced "berr" or like "bur." Bur is a word, I believe. But br is not.

    • @jacobgonzalez1386
      @jacobgonzalez1386 Před 17 dny +4

      ​@@nathanjohnson2066but you still know what it means, and you know how to say it.

    • @Firefly256
      @Firefly256 Před 17 dny

      @@jacobgonzalez1386It is a word in Scrabble, I use the CSW21 and I can confirm it's a word

    • @bubblinebee
      @bubblinebee Před 17 dny

      @@nathanjohnson2066 What about tsktsks?

    • @nathanjohnson2066
      @nathanjohnson2066 Před 17 dny +1

      ​@@bubblinebeeI wouldn't know that word. It likely isn't a formal one, I reckon.

  • @ianweckhorst3200
    @ianweckhorst3200 Před 17 dny +33

    the most fun thing about my name is it actually hails from a 3 generation word chain, my grandpa is Don, my dad is Dan, and I am Ian, I've long pondered on what to name my kid if I wanted to continue that

  • @UltraMC3
    @UltraMC3 Před 17 dny +7

    There's a game called Word Evolver and it takes this concept and expands upon it by adding the insertion of characters and removal of characters.
    So the three operations are:
    Cat -> Cot (Change)
    Fame -> Frame (Insertion)
    Post -> Pot (Removal)
    The game seems to only contain any word with 7 or less letters.

    • @Alexander-v-w
      @Alexander-v-w Před 15 dny

      not really 7 letters or less, but any word in the network, because i can type clapping/slapping and it will accept it

  • @Catman_321
    @Catman_321 Před 17 dny +78

    Oh no, Now he's going to make it into an fps game

    • @PunmasterSTP
      @PunmasterSTP Před 17 dny +10

      I'd definitely be up for a graph theory game of some sort...

    • @swedneck
      @swedneck Před 17 dny

      @@PunmasterSTP sounds like a very decent premise for some sort of puzzle game

    • @jenriesgamingworld8041
      @jenriesgamingworld8041 Před 15 dny

      MAKE
      AH-IT
      SUPERCALIFRAGA-

  • @HaniiPuppy
    @HaniiPuppy Před 17 dny +11

    1:35 - Cwm, qi, and crwth are all perfectly fine (if unusually spelt) words.
    - Qi is a variant spelling of chi, as in life-force in the context of Taoism, and what keeps popping up in martial arts anime.
    - A cwm is a bit in a valley where it opens up to a sort-of plain still surrounded by hills.
    - A crwth is a medieval instrument, a bit like a fiddle? Look it up on youtube, there's videos of people playing it.
    Also, "Brrr" and "ZZZs" are probably included as common onomatopoeia.

    • @midshitfuta
      @midshitfuta Před 12 dny

      Qibla is the term for the direction towards the Kaaba its the direction u pray every day for salah its one of the more basic concepts in islam, shocked this one wasnt known

  • @GuyPerson-jt9tv
    @GuyPerson-jt9tv Před 17 dny +18

    Your son in kindergarten is learning about graphs, which I only learned about a couple of years ago in a college computer science class. 😮

  • @kenarnarayaka
    @kenarnarayaka Před 17 dny +18

    1:40 idk about the other ones, but qibla is the transliteration of an Arabic word which is used a lot by Muslims

    • @PorterStatsTheSecond
      @PorterStatsTheSecond Před 10 dny +2

      I know one too. Cwm is Welsh for valley. I see it a lot around town names and village names. However, I doubt that is the reason it is on there.

    • @CauliflowermuncherNo5634
      @CauliflowermuncherNo5634 Před 8 dny

      Miaou is very similar to the German spelling for meow, so I'm just gonna assume some language adds the O

  • @ZerglordGhi
    @ZerglordGhi Před 17 dny +6

    Fin -> Sin -> Sim -> Aim -> Ale -> Age
    Solved the hard one!

  • @sandrin0
    @sandrin0 Před 17 dny +6

    this reminds me of the phenomenon of psycholinguistic activation
    when processing a word, other words that are either semantically or phonologically related will become more cognitively 'prominent', with the phenomenon usually being described as forming a web-like shape (I'm not super familiar with graphs or graph theory so I don't know if this is how it's modelled in the literature, but I don't think that these sort of chains are what's usually looked at in experiments, I could be wrong of course though)
    a word like 'cat' will activate words in its phonological web that have a similar initial (the sound at the beginning) like core or curl, words with a similar nucleus (usually a vowel) like zap or had, words with a similar coda (the sound at the end) like pot or rut, with words that fulfil several of these being activated more strongly like bat or sat (nucleus and coda), and cap or cab (initial and nucleus), this aspect of a word is referred to as its 'form'
    in the semantic web, 'cat' will activate words that are similar to its referent (ie a four legged, relatively small, furry animal with a tail, whiskers, prominent ears, often kept as house pets, etc) like dog (lots of similar characteristics), lizard (four legs, kept as pets), fox (also similar, usually not pets though), bird (kept as pets, preyed on by cats), mouse/rat (same deal as birds), this aspect of a word is referred to as its sense
    experimental evidence, iirc, suggests that 'prominence' generally results in, among other things, being able to access words faster when prompted. someone for who a word that has been 'primed' (is prominent/activated) will for instance, if presented with a grid of four pictures (lets say one of a phone, a cup, a pencil, and a sandwich) with one of the pictures being of the primed word (the cup in this example), when prompted to, pick the image of the prime (the cup) measurably and consistently faster than someone who hadn't had 'cup' primed for them in any way

  • @pleappleappleap
    @pleappleappleap Před 17 dny +8

    Both "brrr" and "qibla" are words I've actually used in life. As is "aa". Well, it's actually "a'a". So is "qi", now that I think about it. It's the "life force " thing from Chinese culture. "brrr" is an onomatopoeia. I didn't have to look up any of these.

  • @mikeraphone7868
    @mikeraphone7868 Před 17 dny +3

    This guy is a legend for making the engine for 4D Golf an open source plugin for Unity WITH THOROUGH DOCUMENTATION. I love indie devs

  • @louisreinitz5642
    @louisreinitz5642 Před 17 dny +8

    We played the game with the added rule, you may add a letter to the beginning or end then you can jump up or down in word size

  • @tux1468
    @tux1468 Před 17 dny +27

    0:21 implying that its not a real word? >:3

    • @EnZon3
      @EnZon3 Před 17 dny +3

      bro 😭🙏

    • @naoxi1
      @naoxi1 Před 17 dny +1

      Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    • @ImpossibleEvan
      @ImpossibleEvan Před 17 dny +3

      Cog & Bullet Torture

    • @Eavontide
      @Eavontide Před 17 dny +3

      it's not. it's an abbreviation

  • @seod1353
    @seod1353 Před 13 dny +2

    this is going to be a BANGER youtube reccomendation in 7-12 years

  • @Konomi_io
    @Konomi_io Před 17 dny +10

    4:21 the australian in me feels the need to tell you that it's pronounced "ee-myu"

    • @Nanuak_
      @Nanuak_ Před 12 dny

      The British in me feels the exact same way

    • @bengamincopper6508
      @bengamincopper6508 Před 9 dny

      I cringed when he said E moo, like, ew

  • @sophiegrey9576
    @sophiegrey9576 Před 17 dny +138

    BRRR isn't even that unusual out of the weird words you picked out for the scrabble dictionary-it's just onomatopoeia for shivering in the cold, like "brrrr it's freezing"

    • @isaaclowe5000
      @isaaclowe5000 Před 17 dny +17

      onomatopoeia aren't real words. and if you find that they are because someone more qualified than me said so, I still completely disagree

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Před 17 dny +47

      @@isaaclowe5000 How do you not realize how conceited you sound when you say "I'm right even if experts say I'm wrong" out loud?

    • @BryanLu0
      @BryanLu0 Před 17 dny +14

      ​@@isaaclowe5000buzz, splash, crash are all onomatopoeia

    • @Philip-qq7ql
      @Philip-qq7ql Před 17 dny +3

      ​@@timothymcleanbut experts can be wrong, especially if they think onomatopoeia should be considered words

    • @zmaj12321
      @zmaj12321 Před 17 dny +13

      ​@@Philip-qq7ql Every definition of onomatopoeia that I can find calls it "a word" or "the creation of a word". I think it makes sense. If onomatopoeia's not a word, then what is it exactly?

  • @ScrumpeyBros
    @ScrumpeyBros Před 16 dny +7

    6:35 Interesting how "beaut" goes to "beast"...

  • @brunnomenxa
    @brunnomenxa Před 16 dny +1

    3:00 Thank you so much. I've been looking for something like this for months with zero results.

  • @in_sa_ne
    @in_sa_ne Před 17 dny +40

    1:34 Qibla is an Arabic word (also in English): the direction of the Kaaba (the sacred building at Mecca), to which Muslims turn at prayer.

    • @isaaclowe5000
      @isaaclowe5000 Před 17 dny +2

      It's not even an english word, so i was confused as to why it's in the data set. It's a transliteration for pronunciation. It's just using english letters to pronounce an arabic word

    • @k.k.9378
      @k.k.9378 Před 17 dny

      English tends to build its dictionaries on the principle that if people are talking about doing taekwondo, then taekwondo is an English word now.

    • @in_sa_ne
      @in_sa_ne Před 16 dny

      @@isaaclowe5000 Usually, when some words are being used regularly in a language/country, it gets integrated into the language. Most languages have a large number of foreign words. You think this is not an English word, so it shouldn't be considered english, but we are using thousands of words thinking they are english. French and Latin words make up 58 % of modern English vocabulary today. On their own, purely French words make up 29% of English.

    • @in_sa_ne
      @in_sa_ne Před 16 dny

      @@k.k.9378 That is true for every language.

    • @k.k.9378
      @k.k.9378 Před 16 dny +1

      @@in_sa_ne Not for the likes of standard French and Icelandic, which much prefer to coin a compound. You can debate whether anyone actually *speaks* the standard version, but they are what the dictionaries represent.

  • @Neoh53
    @Neoh53 Před 17 dny +3

    1:37 Because english is mostly based on French (British Royalty spoke french), you can find some french word. Here "Miaou" is actually Mew (the cat noise) in french

  • @hAboyd
    @hAboyd Před 13 dny +4

    2:47 But that's just a Theory, a NETWORK THEORY!

  • @ori5315
    @ori5315 Před 17 dny +3

    The solution I came up with for fin > age was fin > fir > air > aim > arm > are > age

  • @roeyshapiro4878
    @roeyshapiro4878 Před 14 dny +1

    Thanks for making the inspiration that I can always come back to.
    Love the smaller scope of the project (maybe it had its classic share of tangential problems, but at least conceptually), definitely a super cool example of patterns emerging from simple rules.

  • @comtoisetienne
    @comtoisetienne Před 17 dny +3

    It would be interesting to change the rule to : change, add or remove one letter. That way there would only be one graph. Maybe unconnected words in one "level" (word lenght) could be connected to the whole.

  • @lemon4378
    @lemon4378 Před 12 dny +2

    "There's this really cool little game my friends at school learned about-"
    "COME HERE SON, WE'RE GOING TO WIN THIS USING ALGORITHMS."

  • @maddymakesgames
    @maddymakesgames Před 17 dny +3

    This is actually a problem we did in my graph theory course! Its a really fun thing to play around with and learn about graphs and networking.

  • @Tremuska
    @Tremuska Před 16 dny +1

    Finalt 4D is over and we start to see high quality content. Well done mate!

  • @Ty-Jack
    @Ty-Jack Před 17 dny +6

    7:06 you could make a map with this L0L.

  • @KaiTheCyberCat
    @KaiTheCyberCat Před 17 dny +2

    I've encountered a similar puzzle where you have to add a letter instead of changing one, starting with one letter. For example
    i
    in
    sin
    sing
    sting
    string
    staring
    starring
    You can add the new letter anywhere in the previous word, as long as it stays a real word, ofc.

  • @albertchosenko8514
    @albertchosenko8514 Před 17 dny +3

    I think what's interesting, is the first and last word of the longest line, every word you can change it into is already in the line, since otherwise it would be the longest instead

  • @jamesdadabo
    @jamesdadabo Před 17 dny +1

    I made a game with this concept called Lettermorph, and all of the levels were hand-coded. It’s interesting to see how this could be used to generate levels by selecting two nodes within an island. Cool video!

  • @Wapcvm
    @Wapcvm Před 17 dny +6

    5:25 great words in the middle there.

    • @cashierexo
      @cashierexo Před 15 dny +1

      I saw goon 💀💀💀💀

    • @black-mesa
      @black-mesa Před 8 dny

      @@cashierexoI saw tits 💀💀💀

    • @AKPittaz
      @AKPittaz Před 19 hodinami

      Reason y I came to the comments

  • @DanielLCarrier
    @DanielLCarrier Před 17 dny +2

    Reminds me of the game Counterfeit Monkey. It's a text adventure where you start out with a device that can remove all of one letter from a word. Like you can remove the b to turn garbage into a garage. But it has to be an actual object, and not alive. Later on, you get access to a way to reverse words, swap them with homonyms, get rid of the restrictions that prevent abstract things like "sin" and allow living things, a way to combine words (like cross and word become crossword), remove all the t's, and swap words for anagrams. Also, in-universe there's ways to remove just the first letter of a word and to turn any plural word singular (you can usually do this by removing all s's, but not always). So word chains that you can do with those sort of things are very important, and half of the main character (who is Alex and Andra combined) was trying to create a conlang to make it all especially useful. Personally one major thing I'd do is make a single letter that's only used to make words singular, so once you have one of something, you can get more just by removing that letter.

  • @EvanG529
    @EvanG529 Před 17 dny +11

    0:22 AYOOOO

    • @lonekoq4646
      @lonekoq4646 Před 16 dny +6

      cognitive behavioral therapy 😊 it can also be an abbreviation for co-

    • @tmansdigistudios1675
      @tmansdigistudios1675 Před 14 dny

      ​@@lonekoq4646 I don't get it

    • @tora9567
      @tora9567 Před 12 dny

      @@tmansdigistudios1675it’s a popular meme abbreviation for
      Cock and ball torture

  • @suupe4453
    @suupe4453 Před 15 dny +1

    0:40 fit > pit> put> rut > rue> rye> aye> age

  • @ees4.
    @ees4. Před 17 dny +7

    Qibla isn't an archaic word, or out of use. It refers to the direction that Muslims pray in.

  • @cnc-enthusiast
    @cnc-enthusiast Před 17 dny +1

    I was stoke to see this small idea being so fruitful... and then you end the video with telling me you open sourced your 4D golf engine with documentation. Mad respect

  • @chexo3
    @chexo3 Před 17 dny +11

    2:42 oh boy, this feels like an NP hard problem

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 Před 17 dny +4

      longest path is np-c, but graph diameter (longest shortest path) isn't

  • @mckseal
    @mckseal Před 17 dny +1

    I did a version with a given budget of "fake" words you could use. This means you can bridge some of the gaps, but the fake word must still be one letter off.
    It was actually a really fun twist! Recommend it

  • @itsyusufcraft4674
    @itsyusufcraft4674 Před 17 dny +31

    Where is 1 letter

    • @NinjaKatzKool
      @NinjaKatzKool Před 17 dny

      Fr, I bet there are no connsctions

    • @Gjeea
      @Gjeea Před 17 dny +11

      @@NinjaKatzKoolinfact quite the opposite, every word would have connections! Since 1 letter words are only- well.. a letter long. Since you switch 1 word per time, every word with a single letter would have connections.
      Although im pretty sure the only 1 letter words are a and i.

    • @user-kc9lm3ev9h
      @user-kc9lm3ev9h Před 16 dny

      The only real 1 letter words are i and a, but u and y can also do, plus every letter is a word in the dictionary

    • @Gjeea
      @Gjeea Před 16 dny

      @@user-kc9lm3ev9h well either way, you get my point

    • @frenchburgur
      @frenchburgur Před 14 dny

      everything would be connected as you change all (1) letters in one move

  • @wermaus
    @wermaus Před 17 dny +1

    THIS as a tool for guiding conlang development to help "feel" out the consonant composition based on conjugations, affixations, short words and roots seems like a really promising area of exploration. Just using the tool (which I think might have some edge cases where it fails to make connections it should because I was getting some missing branches) really helped feel out a few new shorter words to help out a conlang I'm working on niow!

  • @닉네임-u4q
    @닉네임-u4q Před 12 dny +3

    FIN->MIN->MID->AID->AMD(Advanced Micro Devices)->AMP(adenosine monophosphate)->APP->APE->AGE Gotcha!

  • @Valgween
    @Valgween Před 15 dny +1

    it makes sense that they get less connected the more letters. because the number of potential letter combinations increases faster than the words that are actually used.

  • @Firefly256
    @Firefly256 Před 17 dny +3

    1:11 As a Scrabble player, I literally thought of the same solution too!
    Also, what do you think of a variant of word chains, where you can either add a letter, change a letter or remove a letter? So a chain could be something like
    GOAT -> GOT -> COT -> CLOT -> CLOTH

  • @vassilisstergioudis
    @vassilisstergioudis Před 17 dny +1

    As an artists who draws ambigrams and studies ambigram typologies, I find this video really interesting!

  • @moldscraper
    @moldscraper Před 17 dny +3

    48: AIM>ARM>ARE>AGE

  • @cmyk8964
    @cmyk8964 Před 17 dny +1

    There's a browser game called Craftwords, which is a word ladder game where you're also allowed to connect anagrams (e.g. egos-goes), and add or remove 1 arbitrary letter (e.g. qua-aqua, quit-quite). I wonder how much that reduces island words.

  • @kongolandwalker
    @kongolandwalker Před 17 dny +3

    I played this game in childhood. But the rules also allowed to add (insert) a letter or delete one.
    Lap->flap

  • @ltkdt
    @ltkdt Před 17 dny +1

    I didn't expect a programming solution when I see the title. As a coder myself I enjoyed the video very much

  • @oblivion5683
    @oblivion5683 Před 17 dny +3

    1:37 lol im sure you didn't know but the inclusion of qibla on the absurd word list is probably gonna get a frown out of a few people

  • @Showsni
    @Showsni Před 14 dny +2

    Fun fact - this game was invented by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. He called it Word-Links or Doublets. In terms of the dictionary used, the original published instructions in 1879 say "It is, perhaps, needless to state that it is de rigueur that the links should be English words, such as might be used in good society." He later made his own glossary of legal words for the game (though being from the 19th century, some of it is probably what we'd regard as archaic now!). For example, his legal links to CARES are:
    BARES
    CAGES
    CAKES
    CANES
    CAPES
    CARDS
    CARED
    CARER
    CARET
    CARPS
    CARTS
    CASES
    CATES
    CAVES
    CORES
    CURES
    DARES
    FARES
    HARES
    MARES
    PARES
    WARES
    losing CAFES, CARBS and TARES, but gaining CARET (the ^ symbol) and CATES (dainty food delicacies). It might be interesting to run his glossary through your programme and compare the difference!

  • @ocks_dev_vlogs
    @ocks_dev_vlogs Před 17 dny +10

    0:22 CBT!?!?

  • @stuvl_33
    @stuvl_33 Před 13 dny +1

    The 6 letter graph kinda started resembling the world map. Or maybe I'm just tripping.
    Great video!

  • @WeaselOnaStick
    @WeaselOnaStick Před 17 dny +3

    4:40 blurring right as the CU- appears lmao

  • @victork8708
    @victork8708 Před 16 dny +1

    Thank you for showing me Gephy, because i need something like this, and i didn`t even know where to look!

  • @hAboyd
    @hAboyd Před 13 dny +3

    0:33 Batman!

  • @jwvdvuurst
    @jwvdvuurst Před 17 dny +1

    Interesting! Next step is to combine all these graphs by making the connection from one word to another that you can get to by adding 1 letter to it. So you can either go to a next word by changing one letter or expanding the word by adding one letter.
    AND->END->BEND->BOND->... etc

  • @cobinasaur
    @cobinasaur Před 17 dny +4

    2:58
    It's the year 2024 I shouldn't be-

    • @liam.28
      @liam.28 Před 3 dny

      GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

  • @jeanbon4961
    @jeanbon4961 Před 17 dny +2

    1:32 Scrabble goes brrr

  • @theominouspigeon
    @theominouspigeon Před 17 dny +14

    new codeparade vid dropped :D

    • @SlushyCupLOLZ
      @SlushyCupLOLZ Před 17 dny +4

      Actual coding?

    • @amyshaw893
      @amyshaw893 Před 17 dny +1

      Yeah I know, I'm watching it

    • @SlushyCupLOLZ
      @SlushyCupLOLZ Před 17 dny +3

      @@amyshaw893hey you were supposed to say “Call the coder!” not this (omg Google en passant chain reference??)

    • @Vodboi
      @Vodboi Před 17 dny +2

      @@SlushyCupLOLZ 4D engine in the corner, plotting steam domination

    • @SlushyCupLOLZ
      @SlushyCupLOLZ Před 17 dny +2

      @@Vodboi Code sacrifice, anyone?

  • @CollinWilliams-by5cs
    @CollinWilliams-by5cs Před 13 dny +1

    I love network theory! This reminds me of that guy who did the Wikipedia graph. Thanks for the video, CodeParade!

  • @Alexander-oh8ry
    @Alexander-oh8ry Před 17 dny +3

    0:22 interesting example for a forbidden word. Cognitive Ball Torture

  • @leo9463065
    @leo9463065 Před 17 dny +1

    I had heard about an extra rule to allow more connections when the words get loger: allowing rearranging letters, i.e. turning it into one of its anagrams.
    One interesting word chain this rule allows is the cycle of 4 seasons: spring → summer → autumn → winter → spring

  • @xr5thegooberguy
    @xr5thegooberguy Před 14 dny +3

    0:01 i thought this video was about this weird cell thing

  • @ehmaree
    @ehmaree Před 17 dny +2

    0:48 Fin -> Pin -> Pie -> Pre -> Are -> Age immediately came to mind. It depends on if you count Pre as a word

  • @xaigamer3129
    @xaigamer3129 Před 17 dny +5

    0:39
    fin
    sin
    sip
    dip
    dim
    aim
    arm
    are
    age

  • @samiralawton7497
    @samiralawton7497 Před 17 dny +2

    Holy crap i just came across this puzzle in ian Stewart's "Nature's Numbers". I was fascinated by it and wanted to see something exactly like this. I was going to do it on paper so thank you for this gem

  • @jademonass2954
    @jademonass2954 Před 17 dny +3

    reminded me so much of the levenshtein distance i went to search it up
    turns out, this is called the hamming distance! only with the limitation of being real words
    super interesting stuff tho

  • @jtw-r
    @jtw-r Před 17 dny +1

    This is like a simple levenshtein but with graphs, two of my favourite things haha

  • @TheWorldsLargestOven
    @TheWorldsLargestOven Před 17 dny +4

    6:16 *OMG IT'S ME!!!*

  • @starless_void
    @starless_void Před 16 dny +1

    I like how, at 00:22, he uses "CBT" for demonstration purposes.

  • @cdkw2
    @cdkw2 Před 15 dny +6

    7:47 I know what I saw

  • @Throrma
    @Throrma Před 17 dny +1

    In my primary school there was some people who come for a researc about assosiation chains. They asked us to write down in circles words after each other that comes your mind associated from the previous one and connect it and connect it to the ones with line that also connects by association those are already on the paper.
    Mine was a disaster.
    But ever since I'm a fan of these graphs 😄

  • @CommentBanana
    @CommentBanana Před 17 dny +4

    5:42 it feels fitting that void is completely isolated on it's own as an island in a white void...

  • @moth.monster
    @moth.monster Před 17 dny +1

    I love taking basic childhood games and expanding upon them like this with math. CZcamsrs who are also parents are so fun lol

  • @HerzaPop
    @HerzaPop Před 17 dny +2

    I like playing his game on sporcle, ladders they called. Cool video, enjoyed it

  • @HFIAPY
    @HFIAPY Před 12 dny +3

    FIN → AGE
    Fin→fit→ sit→set→see→bee→bre→ore→are→age

  • @DogeDragone
    @DogeDragone Před 13 dny +1

    that was a good hour entertainment for my day, downloading python again (ig I didnt download it on this computer yet) and then playing around with words and then turning it into a graph