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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 riffraff »

vasco wrote: post #146
riffraff wrote: post #145

Brilliant idea but e.g. I got the conversion of the kingdom of Aksum to Christianity and none of the images resemble reality. I think this might work better if you fed the LLM some real image and asked it to expand it than by using prompts.

How would you be able to get real images of the past?

archeological objects exist. E.g. This is one of those stone pillars erected by King Ezana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ezana%27s_Stele

And this is the Obelisk of Axum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Axum

You can see they have nothing to do with what is shown here, which is a weird cross of greek, middle-eastern, and stonehenge.

https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/93fb81ef-002c-459d-9726-b14...

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

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Post by valiant55 »

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…

I had cranes constructing the library at Alexandria.

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

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Post by jtwaleson »

samplank2 wrote: post #8
jtwaleson wrote: post #6

Super cool! Tried a couple of rounds, will try it with my oldest kid who's very into history tomorrow, I'm sure he'll love it.

Thanks for playing! Let me know what your kid thinks

He's 11 and loving it! Had to close the computer to get him to stop and go to bed. Well done!

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

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Post by vasco »

riffraff wrote: post #221
vasco wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you be able to get real images of the past?

archeological objects exist. E.g. This is one of those stone pillars erected by King Ezana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ezana%27s_Stele And this is the Obelisk of Axum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Axum You can see they have nothing to do with what is shown here, which is a weird cross of greek, middle-eastern, and stonehenge. https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/93fb81ef-002c-459d-9726-b14...

Then it'd get one object right and the rest wrong.

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

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Post by sdotdev »

its nice but how does the points calculation work? I know its 5000 for time and 5000 for event, but with the time is it linear so 1 year away (for example) is -1 point, and 100 years away is -100 points? I feel it should give you more of a curve so if youre a couple years off/in the same decade you're score isn't that off. apart from that its good.
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