Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.
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#83Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.
And maybe also the 'you'?
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#84"If you are willing and able to offer sponsorship, reach out to me at marcuslager at the biggest email provider in the world * dot com." Is that still yahoo.com?
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#85The index is super tiny. A search for "the" got 112 results. Seems like a quick way to explore the entire index. Also it indexes pages twice if you submit them twice, so that needs to be fixed. But for some crazy reason, I kinda like this. It feels like the 90s internet. The links included so far have that same random mix of lots of nerdy links, homepages & personal blogs, a few religious sites, and the occasional bi…
This thing isn't slaying anything.
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#86The index is super tiny. A search for "the" got 112 results. Seems like a quick way to explore the entire index. Also it indexes pages twice if you submit them twice, so that needs to be fixed. But for some crazy reason, I kinda like this. It feels like the 90s internet. The links included so far have that same random mix of lots of nerdy links, homepages & personal blogs, a few religious sites, and the occasional bi…
I was really confused by this too. I searched a Steam, Twitch and a bunch of other sites and it didn't find any of them. Then I did Youtube and it took 12 seconds (following queries were fast, I guess I was the first to search Youtube). This thing isn't slaying anything.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm glad I could make you curious about this. I will gladly expand on the documentation around the language model and querying as soon as I can. In broad terms: its a 16-bit vector space in which you can encode anything you like. I have chosen to encode phrases and words as bags-of-characters. This separates terms from each other enough that they can be searched for reliably (in almost all cases). Terms that share a…
Could the bags-of-characters approach cause issues with anagrams having the same vector? It would be surprising (to me) to get the same results for e.g. "strange" and "garnets".
A secondary index might become needed with the most popular terms, to resolve which anagram is the right one.
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#88Got zero relevant results. Not even sure how the results came back, as the words weren’t in there. Tried “Taoist tai chi,” then “Taoism”. Love the ambition, but a long way to go go.
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#89I tried emailing you at hotmail, but you are over the 1MB limit.
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#90Reminds me of http://wiby.me
I like the "Surprise Me" button, where it takes you to a random page from the index. (I got a 90s era Babylon 5 fan page.) It could be interesting if didyougogo added that, but it would need to add a NSFW filter.