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So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by cnlwsu »

chc wrote: post #39
bittermang wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would concur about the date thing. It makes it a lot less fun when your path looks like: Polycephaly -> August 18 -> Adolf Hitler When I was able to get their manually by: Polycephaly -> Freak Show -> Cannes Film Festival -> France -> Germany -> Hitler I think just dropping dates from contention, apart from any other contextual algorithm improvements, would put a lot of the fun and discovery back in to it.

I agree wholeheartedly. Not only is it far too easy to link dates to Hitler, but dates are also likely to be connected to other dates, thus getting even further way from a real connection to the original page and giving two chances at the heightened chance of a hit that dates have. I tried "Mark Zuckerberg", and the path from him to Hitler was: December 5th -> 1889 -> Adolf Hitler When there's a perfectly obvious con…

Jewish -(redirect)-> Jews -> Adolf Hitler. Both are 3 but December is first in alphabetical so it was the first one recorded.

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by zalew »

awesome :)

but it raises 500 (Iresult from ajax call) when I type unicode f.ex Polish letters: ńżźśąć etc., so I can't make fun of people :)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

btw turn debug off ;)

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by darklajid »

I was tempted to say "NSFW in Germany", but then again - that would be provoking havoc. :)

Living in Germany I find of find the idea mildy irritating (and the Graphics - erm - far too "comical"), but I love the technical side of the project.

Would be interesting to have a way to show the hops between arbitrary two words (but, yeah, the domain name gives away that this is not planned).

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by cnlwsu »

darklajid wrote: post #43

I was tempted to say "NSFW in Germany", but then again - that would be provoking havoc. :) Living in Germany I find of find the idea mildy irritating (and the Graphics - erm - far too "comical"), but I love the technical side of the project. Would be interesting to have a way to show the hops between arbitrary two words (but, yeah, the domain name gives away that this is not planned).

That was actually the original idea but the CPU behind it (requires a lot of ram and multiple systems the way I worked it) was too expensive to swing by the wife for a goof off project ;)

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by mahmud »

cnlwsu wrote: post #41
chc wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree wholeheartedly. Not only is it far too easy to link dates to Hitler, but dates are also likely to be connected to other dates, thus getting even further way from a real connection to the original page and giving two chances at the heightened chance of a hit that dates have. I tried "Mark Zuckerberg", and the path from him to Hitler was: December 5th -> 1889 -> Adolf Hitler When there's a perfectly obvious con…

Jewish -(redirect)-> Jews -> Adolf Hitler. Both are 3 but December is first in alphabetical so it was the first one recorded.

I find it viscerally painful to see the casual association.

6000 years of culture and all you can think of is some delusional scumbag.

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by nostrademons »

pbourke wrote: post #13
seancron wrote: post #5

Interesting result for "Facebook": Facebook -> April 30 -> Adolf Hitler

This is a fun hack. Strangest path that I've found so far: Sitar -> Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -> Adolf Hitler

Lady Gaga -> Electropop -> Adolf Hitler
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