• tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    13 hours ago

    Genuine Question:

    if you could split the month names into 3, how would you split them to maximise their choice overlap?

    • “em” is a good overlap for nov/sept/dec
    • “uar” is good for jan/febr
      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        12·
        11 hours ago

        hierarchical letter clustering would be my guess, or graph-based clustering using ngrams of 2-4 as nodes and maximising for connections.

        Or using an optimized Regex and printing out the DFA?

        Edit: Quick N-gram analysis (min=3, max=num letters in that month)

        R-code 
        library(ngram)

tmonths = c("january", "february", "march",
           "april", "may", "june", "july",
           "august", "september", "october",
           "november", "december")

zzz = lapply(tmonths, function(mon){
  ng = ngram::ngram_asweka(paste(unlist(strsplit(mon, split="")), collapse=" "), min=3, max=nchar(mon))
  return(gsub(" ", "", ng))
})
res = sort(table(unlist(zzz)))
res[res > 1]

        This gives the following 9 ngram frequencies greater than 1:

          ary   uar  uary   emb  embe ember   mbe  mber   ber 
    2     2     2     3     3     3     3     3     4

        As you can see two longest most common motifs are “em-ber” and “uar-y”

        Using this I propose the following graph

        Mermaid 
        stateDiagram
    direction LR
    sept --> em
    nov --> em
    dec --> em
    em --> ber
    oc --> to
    to --> ber
    feb --> uar
    uar --> y
    jan --> uar
    ju --> ne
    ju --> l
    l --> y
    ma --> r
    ma --> y
    r --> ch
    
    a --> p 
    p --> r
    r --> il
    a --> u
    u --> gust

          • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            I’m really disappointed by June, April and August. Without these months, everything would be so neat and orderly

        • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          Interestingly

          • Aprch
          • Maril

          are the only two hallucinations, everything else is always a legit month