{"id":374,"date":"2025-09-25T17:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/?p=374"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:31:23","slug":"random-xp-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/random-xp-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Random XP opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n    .smallpts { font-weight:bold;color:darkred; }\n    li { margin-bottom:20px; }\n<\/style>\n<p>Inspired by class today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For <span class=\"smallpts\">+1XP<\/span>: find a website that has both the words <tt>jedi<\/tt> and <tt>hangover<\/tt> (or <tt>hungover<\/tt>) not more than 10 words apart. Caveat: the page you send me must not be the same as the page anybody else has already sent me (otherwise I&#8217;ll give you another change).<\/li>\n<li>For <span class=\"smallpts\">+2XP<\/span>: find me a better example for this. To be clear: what I&#8217;m seeking are two words which are <i>less<\/i> likely to appear together (in the same 10-word window) than their individual probabilities multiplied together. (This would correspond to the &#8220;woman who lives with her parents&#8221; example. Female-ness, and living with one&#8217;s parents, tend <i>not<\/i> to go together, so P(female|liveWithParents) will be <i>less than<\/i> P(female) \u00b7 P(liveWithParents).)\n<p>Note that it&#8217;s no use just coming up with two words that are each independently rare, as Garrett tried to do today. Yes, I&#8217;m sure that the probability of finding <tt>vambrace<\/tt> and <tt>phytosphere<\/tt> together is very rare&#8230;but is it more rare than expected based on how rare they are individually? I&#8217;m far from convinced of that fact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To claim either or both of these XP, send me an email with subject line &#8220;DATA 470 &#8212; random XP&#8221; by midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by class today&#8230; For +1XP: find a website that has both the words jedi and hangover (or hungover) not more than 10 words apart. Caveat: the page you send me must not be the same as the page anybody else has already sent me (otherwise I&#8217;ll give you another change). For +2XP: find me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}