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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that it's not possible to have them do 13th century architectural style perfectly right now. But I believe it will be soon. The image/video models are improving, but so are the reasoning models, and they can check for and fix anachronisms.

I hope you're right. Are you aware of any image-gen models that apply chain-of-thought style reasoning (either agentic or via reinforcment learning to shape outputs?) For example, consider this imagery from today's challenge: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/fastab-f08e9.app... These are some incredible monoliths: if they were real, I feel like I would have heard about them? And if they did... that's so co…

[Spoiler] I guess it's this: https://madainproject.com/northern_stelae_park

Which is funny, because the monoliths in the AI video look more eroded than the real ones today.

This looked like a nice idea at first glance. At second glance, it's really bad because you have to assume that everything you see in these videos can be wrong or misleading.

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

#162
Love the concept. Got annoyed with the scoring. I was off by about 200 years and got the country right and only got 2,995 out of 10,000. Felt sad i got such a low score then looked at the answer and felt proud I thought I was really close and then annoyed at how strict the scoring seemed.

But overall, I love the concept and will probably continue to play and ignore the scoring.

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

#163

> 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…

It's like lighting one cigarette with another.

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

#170

Interesting that the AI makes many of the outdoor structures look ancient rather than how they'd look in the time period. People walking over crumbling ancient roads whole fallen ruins loom over them isn't exactly accurate.

Maintenance is expensive in all time periods.

hahaha
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