The crossword puzzle is over a century old
The first modern crossword appeared in the New York World newspaper in 1913 and quickly became a daily ritual worldwide.
A large language model, explained simply
An LLM is trained on enormous amounts of text so it can predict and generate human-like language -- the engine behind today's chatbots.
Palindromes read the same both ways
'Level,' 'racecar,' and 'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama' all read identically forwards and backwards.
More than half of English comes from Latin and Greek
Master one root like 'port' (to carry) and you unlock import, export, portable, transport, and many more.
Jigsaw puzzles began as teaching tools
The earliest jigsaws, cut from maps in the 1760s, were made to teach geography to children.
'Set' is famous for its many meanings
The short word 'set' has hundreds of distinct senses, long cited as one of the most-defined words in English.
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