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Re: GitHubGuessr

#31

Cool idea, but first I got a file which immediately read "This source file is part of the Swift codebase" or smth, and them I got one which is just the characters "})", so pretty inbalanced. Took me a while to figure out that the arrows change between files.

Well if you play geoguessr, you often just see the name of the city.

Re: GitHubGuessr

#32

Created GitHubGuessr: guess the repo from code snippets. Surprisingly challenging. Thoughts?

I would suggest to maybe replace the dropdown list with 12 or 10 tiles instead. would make navigation a bit easier (and the difficulty level less brutal, although that might just be me!) this is a great game by the way! There might be scope for grouping the repos broadly by language. so when faced with some javascript code, the list of possible answers the user gets to pick from are all javascript-y repos. but this o…

The idea of presenting it with tiles is interesting. It can also avoid including too similar repositories. I'm currently working on grouping by language or theme. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: GitHubGuessr

#33

Created GitHubGuessr: guess the repo from code snippets. Surprisingly challenging. Thoughts?

It is quite challenging. I think giving a bit more context would bring it within an enjoyable range; e.g. showing the entire file, including the full path

Thanks! Displaying the file path is a good idea. We just need to be careful not to give away spoilers through the file path.

Re: GitHubGuessr

#34
post #18

Created GitHubGuessr: guess the repo from code snippets. Surprisingly challenging. Thoughts?

Definitely should include more repos, its a little imbalanced towards web dev

Yeah, If you have any recommends, please let me know. I had ChatGPT help me create a popular repos.

Re: GitHubGuessr

#35
post #21

Hey, if any hackers out there have feedback (or even found bugs), let me know!

Some of the choices may be too similar. I answered one question with "TensorFlow", which was wrong. The answer was Bert, a set of models for TensorFlow.

Yes, that's a difficult problem. I'll review the data.

Re: GitHubGuessr

#36

Agh, sorry, but having to read through a dropdown of dozens of items ruins this out of the box. Needs a re-work of guessing. Not fun and not even a game right now, but close!

It would be good to automatically filter by language as that's trivial to guess. Then the remaining set could be placed in a 2D plane, organized through some sort of clustering in vector space.

> organized through some sort of clustering in vector space.

What did he mean by this?

Re: GitHubGuessr

#37

Nice! More time would be good (or a no time limit option). I like the element of being able to make inferences based on the code even if you're not familiar with it, narrowing down to a handful of candidate repos and making an informed guess - but this takes time and the 60s you get doesn't feel like enough to comfortably read the whole list of repos. Being able to quickly eliminate languages might also be good - if…

Thank you for your feedback!! Year, dropdown list UI should be replaced by tiles or something.

Re: GitHubGuessr

#38

Nice! More time would be good (or a no time limit option). I like the element of being able to make inferences based on the code even if you're not familiar with it, narrowing down to a handful of candidate repos and making an informed guess - but this takes time and the 60s you get doesn't feel like enough to comfortably read the whole list of repos. Being able to quickly eliminate languages might also be good - if…

I wish the name of the project wasn't just available at the top. It should hide or omit files that its own name in the text

Re: GitHubGuessr

#39
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be good to automatically filter by language as that's trivial to guess. Then the remaining set could be placed in a 2D plane, organized through some sort of clustering in vector space.

> organized through some sort of clustering in vector space. What did he mean by this?

Curious why you didn't write "what did you mean by this", addressing directly?

Anyway, if I had to guess, I'd say grouping along two or more traits. Maybe size along one axis and purpose along the other, clustering similar projects together.

Re: GitHubGuessr

#40
doesnt work with Firefox:

    TypeError: e is undefined
    NextJS 11
    [framework-63157d71ad419e09.js:9:69810](https://github-guessr.vercel.app/_next/static/chunks/framework-63157d71ad419e09.js)
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