So to summarize, the opportunity of pattern trading is self-fulfilling, which also means if any become unfashionable then the signal will cease to exist. From that fact alone we can conclude there is no basis in the economic reality of the business or its public stock. Greater fool theory, essentially.
Just wanted to say thanks for your transparency - very cool to see you here acknowledging the pain points head on and sharing your plan to address them.
These aren't even the real pain points. Most people using Medium aren't using it to discover new content. The CEO clearly has no clue what they are doing.
I have had the same experience picking up cycling during the pandemic - work is the last thing on my mind while pushing hard up a steep hill. Cycling comes with occasional injuries too, but is certainly less impactful than other forms of exercise. It's always encouraging to see (and often, be passed by) a much older cyclist, shows that this is a hobby that can be enjoyed for a large part of your life!
This is a really cool approach, definitely did not think of trying this! If you'd prefer to play without the crowdsourced data, I spent a couple hours on the following dictionary search algo yesterday which can typically solve puzzles in 3-4 guesses: https://github.com/rgkimball/wordlebot
I tried yours out, nice work yourself! Seems we took a similar approach in recalculating the letter distributions based on remaining words - both our algos solved it in 4 turns today.
If I may make two small suggestions as a user, I noticed you have a dictionary with nearly 13k words which often results in invalid suggestions like 'clery' and 'meryl'. In testing I found the Scrabble dictionary to be much more likely to yield valid Wordle words (found here: https://github.com/redbo/scrabble), though the official Wordle answers tend to be an even smaller set of ~2,500 common words.
Second, though the implementation is very clean in code (much more concise than mine!), I found the use of the green/gray/yellow methods to be a bit cumbersome when adding constraints. You could wrap these three in a method like guess(word, reply) where your response encodes the feedback as something like [g]=green, [b]=black, [y]=yellow:
Nice work! I spent some time playing with this today and used it to build a solver algorithm. It's a greedy search through the possible combinations that prioritizes words based on letter frequency and uses the hints provided to whittle down the search space.
Though not enforced by the Hyperwordle clone, the script plays the game on "hard" mode by default where all letter hints must be included in subsequent guesses. Ironically, this constraint made the algorithm more efficient, easy mode tends to take longer and fail more frequently!
