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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#101
http://mathb.in/

It has been in its half-baked state since 2012 when I wrote it in a single night so that I could share solutions to mathematics puzzles my friends and I used to challenge each other with.

Somehow the use of this tool spread from my friends to their friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then to IRC channels that involve mathematical discussions.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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I just created http://unaffixed.com for finding and posting Gumroad-like jobs [1]. It's just a markdown file converted to html and served from a Fastmail folder. My process was: Read this thread [2] yesterday afternoon. Thought this sounded like a "looser" work environment. Searched "synonym loose". 3rd result was "unaffixed". Bought unaffixed.com and pointed it at Fastmail. MD to html with pandoc. Added water.css st…

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://cinetrii.com analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film. There are a bunch of things that could be improved with the text processing applied here. The wrong movie title is resolved occasionally, like failing to distinguish between an original and a remake, or a book. Sometimes the wrong part of an article is parsed, resulting in wrong connections. But I think it works overall, for the right…

Cool! this may be /r/internetisbeautiful material when it's done.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #101

http://mathb.in/ It has been in its half-baked state since 2012 when I wrote it in a single night so that I could share solutions to mathematics puzzles my friends and I used to challenge each other with. Somehow the use of this tool spread from my friends to their friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then to IRC channels that involve mathematical discussions.

Nice! It would be nice to see some of the puzzles that were shared using this tool.
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