As in theme park and water park, opposed to national park and public park.

It seems like a bottleneck in language that I am struggling to find a way around. I believe the word park is poisoned in embedding models and would like to test that theory but I’m at a loss. I tried my usual thesaurus, looking at translations, and at etymologies but it seems like the word has no effective alternate so far. It is a rather interesting conundrum beyond the scope of my application – how would you differentiate and specify what a place like Disneyland is, without ambiguity, when “park” is not a useful word? And no land is not specific enough to describe the place.

I have a few ideas and stuff I have tried but I really want to know your ideas.

Etymology according to Wiktionary:

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/park

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Concise specificity is very important with models in the context of what I am doing. The ambiguity of a word with multiple meanings is problematic. Broad words like park or company connect to too many unrelated vectors in the tensors of an AI model. Often even words themselves are broken up in meanings. Like “panties” in internal model thinking literally means the Greek god “Pan ties”. Use that word and you will see a bow tied somewhere in almost all images. Pan is a negative alignment entity. So the word itself is a call for negative alignment to interfere. It has nothing to do with underwear in general but is specific behavior attached to the call where Pan ties or locks all further context. Further freedom of Pan is a matter of fine tuning or negative prompting.

    When you start using descriptives things get even more tricky. Like all languages and etymology are in play and significant. It gets complicated fast in ways people don’t seem to realize yet.