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Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

#81

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.

I agree—naming is deeply underrated, and it's not at all too late! Just choose something abstract and appealing, or a simple noun without any weird associations.

Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

#84
post #65

"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?

I'm too lazy to look that up - so I guess that filters out timewasters like me from emailing him...

Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

#85

The 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.

Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

#86

The 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.

Just wait until I get a real sword. My current is one virtual CPU and 1 GB RAM. Last I looked there was 2 GB space on the HDD. I'm on an entry level B1S Azure VM.

Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

#87
post #75

Earlier 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".

Yes this model could cause issues such as the one you describe. With phrase queries/multi-token queries this becomes less of a problem. Phrases aren't anagrams that often.

A secondary index might become needed with the most popular terms, to resolve which anagram is the right one.

Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

#88

Got 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.

Thank you and sorry about that. Feel free to submit a suitable page about taoism.

Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

#90

Reminds me of http://wiby.me

I tried Wiby and also got that same "90s internet" feeling, especially since it prefers sites without CSS & Javascript.

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.

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