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Hi Folks, I'm still working on zyzzyva for the live-cd. Has anyone had any luck compiling it on Debian? In particular, I'm using the qt4-X11 debian package...
jimmy_patrick
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Mar 1, 2006
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I've released a new version of Zyzzyva, 0.11.0. Zyzzyva is a program for studying words and practicing anagramming. It runs on Windows 2000/NT/XP, Windows...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 1, 2006
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Hey Michael, Great job with all the new features and fixes. As I had previously posted, I was most interested in the probability feature which you've now...
joemarc77
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Mar 2, 2006
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First, I was wondering if it would be possible to sort the search results by probability. We novices need to prioritize the filling of our brains. :) Second,...
atomiccupcakebrianna
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Mar 2, 2006
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... Yikes! This is definitely a bug. Apparently my QA person wasn't doing a good enough job... oh wait, that's me. :-) That's a serious enough bug that I'll...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 2, 2006
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... Oh, by the way... the bug is in the code that *reads* the saved quiz file, not the code that writes it. The quizzes are saved correctly, so feel free to...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 2, 2006
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... I know, that group includes me too! More advanced sorting and grouping of lists (including sorting by probability) is something I would like to implement...
Michael W Thelen
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... s/probability/playability/g...
Jason E Katz-Brown
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I've just released a new version of Zyzzyva, 0.11.1, to fix the error reported by joemarc77 (saved searches and quizzes with Probability Order conditions are...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 2, 2006
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great news. I've just got .11.0 built under the wacky debian system for the Knoppix. I'll pull down the latest tarball and rebuild. But before I can do that, I...
islaymalt
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Mar 2, 2006
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... Awesome!! Thank you very much for doing this... all the work to make the Knoppix disk available, and to get Zyzzyva on there as well. I appreciate it,...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 2, 2006
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I was so excited I saw the instructions, and didn't read them!...
islaymalt
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Mar 2, 2006
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If I were designing that feature, I would have it go to a neutral screen with warnings and instructions when someone hits a variety of exit-type keys,...
Austin Nichols
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Mar 2, 2006
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... It depends upon the major purpose for using full screen Word Judge. If more people are going to use it privately on their own systems in their own homes,...
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Mar 2, 2006
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The first time I tried the full-screen mode, I misread (or misremembered -- more likely) what the preview screen said. So when I pressed Ctrl-Esc, Zyzzyva...
Richard Johnson
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Mar 3, 2006
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... Hmm, that's interesting... I'll check that out. I think it should be possible for Zyzzyva to avoid that situation. Thanks for letting me know! ... That's...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 3, 2006
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... (Snip!) ... You are right, sir! My apologies! Yesterday was also the day I presented an Albertson's coupon to the Kroger cashier. They say, as you age,...
Richard Johnson
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Mar 3, 2006
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... LOL. Yesterday I presented a Darrenkamp's coupon to the Musser's cashier. What is really sad is that a week earlier I had presented a Musser's coupon to a ...
aeinrst3x3x@...
Go5shawk
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Mar 3, 2006
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Forgive my rather basic question: I have had good success learning high-probability sevens using zyzzyva. Having just played a game where I had LENTOID (which...
cgiloi98053
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Mar 18, 2006
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... The default is "anagram match", so click on Quiz; then type "LENTOID?" in the text box. The 7 answers come up as 6 test anagrams. Do the same text as a...
David B. Lewis
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Mar 18, 2006
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At the DO last weekend, I talked to Michael about being able to view the anagram hooks (words + ?) as you did a quiz. I think this might be what you are...
Paul Cole
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Mar 18, 2006
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As far as I know, these can only be constructed one at a time for each high-probability rack. I have started a project of constructing flash-cards from 3x5...
Richard Johnson
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Mar 18, 2006
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Hello! I have noticed some differences between Zyzzyva's probability lists and LeXpert's. In an attempt to wean myself off of LeXpert, I have been trying to...
Paul Cole
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Mar 20, 2006
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Here's something I noticed when I started doing the same thing in LeXpert: The top 5000 (or 1000, or 500, or whatever) is rarely exactly that length. Perhaps ...
Richard Johnson
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Mar 20, 2006
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... 5000 and ... results I ... Hopefully, Mike will come by and clarify this, but I believe he said there is currently a bug (in Zyzzyva) with the probability....
atomiccupcakebrianna
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Mar 20, 2006
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... What you're probably seeing is an effect of how the Probability Order condition is applied. I'm not very happy with how it currently works, but I'll...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 20, 2006
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... This sounds like a very interesting idea... it sounds like what you're suggesting is an Anagram Hooks quiz. Let me know if I've misunderstood, but are you...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 20, 2006
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... Oh, this is another good point! Thanks for bringing this up... another thing I dislike about how Zyzzyva handles probability searches is that it can put a...
Michael W Thelen
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Mar 20, 2006
4:16 am
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That's what I have traditionally done with LeXpert. Once I find out what the final word in the list of 1st through nth, I create a new list: 1 thru (n*1.2)th. ...
Richard Johnson
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Mar 20, 2006
7:52 pm
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First of all I've been using Zyzzyva now for a few months and I've found it to be an invaluable study tool for Scrabble. I recently acquired a different...
Joey (the budgie)
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