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Re: Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

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Post by redrix »

dalyons wrote: post #47
OisinMoran wrote: post #34

Some funny related cultural trivia is that often Americans find the hardest thing about integrating into Irish culture is how much we reference the Simpsons in day to day life.

Same as Australia, if you’re a millennial/genx. Only 4 tv channels and one of them was showing endless simpsons repeats in the after school time slot. Almost everyone knows s1-11 references. Kids these days with their on demand streaming don’t understand the monoculture :)

Absolutely! Australian Millennial year. Grew up watching S2-8 every night over dinner on Channel 10 (IIRC), and I sometimes think I could communicate exclusively in Simpsons quotes from that era.

Re: Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

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Post by redrix »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #44

I prefer comb.io, it has full clips

IMO Frinkiac is hard to beat if you just want to caption a Simpsons image (or gif) and share it directly; particularly with a few words modified to fit the situation.

comb.io is good for those occasions where you need the actual clip with audio.

Just my own opinion of course!

Re: Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

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Post by redrix »

Zee2 wrote: post #12

Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.

I actually prefer it this way.

When I use Frinkiac, I already know the quote (or at least a few words from it), and I simply want a still or short gif of it (with a customized caption typically).

YMMV of course.

Re: Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

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Post by AmbroseBierce »

thejazzman wrote: post #53
AmbroseBierce wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it's not a policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also missing but perhaps it's too unknown or too recent to be there.

Pre-AI it’s tedious to find/fix/verify the subtitles — and there are a lot of episodes of South Park. Literally the reason why it’s not there :|

If you sort the top 50 best rated episodes of all time on IMDb you would already have 90% or the quotes people search for, so I would focus on your those if you ever try to take a stab at it.

Re: Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

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Post by davnicwil »

reaperhulk wrote: post #48

Maybe for our tenth anniversary we should update the codebase and finish some features we haven’t touched in a decade…

A friend of mine uses frinkiac all the time, I wasn't sure where he was sourcing all these quotes/memes from until he told me about it a few months ago.

Awesome to see you're on HN. I'll take the opportunity to say thanks for this service! We're of that cohort who grew up on the simpsons and it formed a large part (a majority?) of our humour.

Brings joy and laughs to my friend group at least!

Re: Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

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Post by deanputney »

reaperhulk wrote: post #5
monkpit wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frinkiac has been around for at least a decade :)

We launched Feb 2, 2016 so almost a decade since then! Of course, we ran it for just ourselves a bit longer so it’s been slightly over a decade at this point.

Have you written about the tech behind Frinkiac and Morbotron at all? I'm super curious how it works (although I'm sure I could guess), and also how it might be generalized for other shows. Hosting infrastructure and cost to run would be interesting too!
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