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What kind of games do your kids play on Alexa?

Indeed, I'll change that so you can see the word after you run out of time/questions. The word was belt.

Do they see this game as good way to practice their English?

Thanks for the suggestion! Changed it to 'ask your question here...'

My PhD project is to work on language model capable of playing the answerer in a Twenty Questions game (reverse of Akinator). If you are interested you can play here: https://twent…

Direction display would be useful. You don't need to look at your phone anymore.

Would a smarter auto-correct help?

Did you also try with "retrieval" models models such as RAG, REALM, etc ?

Hi HN, With the following function, you can compare the semantic of two strings in Google Sheet. It is essentially a wrapper around the Universal Sentence Encoder [1]. It will enco…

Or block javascript for this domain in the chrome settings.

Do you know of an app that computes the CO2 impact of food? Like MyFitnesspal but for CO2 instead of calories/nutrients. Thanks.

You can't do pull requests on a normal website. IMO, it is a nice experiment.

Thanks for your suggestions. It is updated every day at market close. Will add a dropdown to select between YTD/MTD/1Y. Would you be interested in receiving a weekly update to your…

Hi guys, I realized the internet lacks a simple place to monitor financial markets: a list of markets and their year-to-date performance, nothing more. There it is. Let me know wha…

Thank you for this. It is so simple, yet so true.

Thanks, I will check it out. There are a few python wrappers around Bloomberg APIs. For example: https://github.com/kyuni22/pybbg . It mimicks the Bloomberg Excel formulas (BDP, BD…

Really interesting project IMO. It would be great to have this linked with an app that actually computes how much CO2 you consume while travelling and proposes to offset whatever y…

Hi HN, How do you monitor financial markets? I used to have a Bloomberg Terminal license at my previous job. Now that is gone, I lack a good tool to monitor markets (like WEI /WB /…

Hi HN, Regular poker platforms ban the use of bots. They fear bots provides an unfair advantage. But honestly, I don't think it is the right response. Instead of fighting the use o…