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Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by rob74 »

tdb7893 wrote: post #136
lelandfe wrote: post #84

> The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail Are they ever? > They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest academic research on how they looked Like the one of the age of castles man loading an American civil war cannon by holding another cannon up to it: https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/37e02fea-bbb2-4b88-ae…

The inaccuracy was disappointing to me. If the point is historical trivia it's hard when the historical trivia isn't right. I have done some fencing and I noticed it especially for weapons and armor (though that might be just because that's what I know at least a tiny bit about). Overall it's a fun idea though. I was able to consistently get pretty close in time and location so even with the anachronisms there was en…

It's also a bit disappointing how much AI still deviates from what you ask of it. In one case, the prompt is (with spoilers removed):

> This star-lit scene in a [...] garden showcases [...] using a seven-foot reflecting telescope, with speculum metal mirrors, in 18th-century [...]. The [...] row house architecture, oil lantern lighting, and his period attire all pinpoint the late 1700s. The meticulously ground mirror indicates the telescope’s custom design that enabled this revolutionary astronomical finding.

The result is a picture (with some panning animation) of a guy who for some reason has a pistol in his belt, looking through a complicated-looking telescope that is however definitely not a seven-foot mirror telescope in broad daylight with an oil painting inexplicably hanging in mid air behind him. No starlight, row houses or oil lanterns to be seen.

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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yobbo wrote: post #153

Scoring function is unfair. If you get a location wrong with 100 km on a world map or the time wrong by 50 years, score drops like 50%.

Also, the "Alaska purchase" has both indoors and outdoor images. The outdoors clearly depicts Alaska but the correct location is supposed to be Washington DC.

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by maratc »

samplank2 wrote: post #39
maratc wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got within 15 years and 200 km but got 7,275 / 10,000. If the expectation is to absolutely nail it, I can hardly imagine who is it for.

My hope is that one day there is a Rainbolt for Time Portal. For someone like that to exist, the game has to be hard. That said, I agree the scoring could definitely use some improvement!

I've put the part about Pope Gregory (and St Paul Basilica) at the St Paul basilica in Vatican. Was punished by not putting it in Rome (where by "Rome" the game probably meant "whatever the meaning is in the underlying map engine").

The Alaska sale is in DC? One of the videos has the exchange of the flags on the post.

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