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Hidden Door is an AI storytelling game that makes sense(theverge.com)
4 points by hmason 1y ago|1 comments
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by hmason 1y ago
The platform lets you create stories in familiar universes, but you can’t just write your way to an instant win. Now in early access!
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Show HN: Micro-Story Creator(share.hiddendoor.co)
4 points by hmason 3y ago|0 comments
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by hmason 12y ago
yes.
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by hmason 12y ago
It's actually because Twitter rate limits the oembed endpoint by IP, so the app caches the oembed codes and uses those if it gets limited. I've been meaning to flip that bit to the client but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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by hmason 13y ago
+1
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by hmason 13y ago
Only women have to prove that they are engineers enough to matter to HN. Men get that for free.
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Generating Very Large Synthetic Natural Graphs(lab41.github.io)
2 points by hmason 13y ago|0 comments
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by hmason 14y ago
This isn't a problem with guys or with developers in general. The vast majority of people who participate in conference are good people. However, it only takes one person (out of thousands!) who has this kind of personality dysfunction to l
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by hmason 14y ago
Thanks. I just deployed this update. Have fun!
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by hmason 14y ago
It's a play on "duck duck goose", the children's game. The similarity to duckduckgo was unintentional, but I like it. I actually wanted to call it "bookroulette", but all permutations of that domain were taken.
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by hmason 14y ago
Yes! This was really just to establish the base case -- is randomly 'walking' through all books available interesting?
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by hmason 14y ago
Both, actually. The API is too slow to use live for this app.
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Browse Amazon, Randomly(bookbookgoose.com)
32 points by hmason 14y ago|26 comments
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by hmason 14y ago
To be clear, I'm not knowledgeable about online advertising. I do understand that the incentives of the advertisers and the users are often opposed, but I was highlighting this as an example of poor product design likely due to optimizing c
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by hmason 14y ago
In most data analysis work, we assume that the data resides in some database and that you have the luxury of iterating over that data as many times as you like to get to a final result. The challenge with stream analysis is that you are dea
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by hmason 14y ago
Don't read too much into that example -- I chose it as a humorous metaphor, not a mathematical argument, and I messed up the delivery in the talk, anyway. I'll refine the example for the next time!
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by hmason 15y ago
I started this job before "data scientist" was in common usage. My title was scientist. Then we hired more scientists, so I got a promotion. :) We build systems on top of the bitly data. This involves things like algorithms for identifying
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by hmason 15y ago
The video is on sale for $14.99 today w/code DDMAS. And let me know if you have any questions!
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by hmason 15y ago
I'm happy to e-mail the PPT with notes and image attribution URLs, too. Ping me at h@bit.ly!
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by hmason 15y ago
Yes. I didn't know about the Chrome extension when I created this project or I would have chosen another name.
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by hmason 16y ago
This is at bit.ly world headquarters in NYC. I'm looking forward to seeing you there!
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by hmason 16y ago
Thanks! I'm trying to use the model of the unix command line -- each script is useful and simple on its own, but in combination they become incredibly powerful.
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by hmason 16y ago
I agree. For example, why do we look at email ranked chronologically? I'd much rather rank it by relevance or importance (or my likelihood to actually answer it). The feature set includes sender, recipients, whether I'm the only recipient,
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by hmason 16y ago
Initially it did, but that went wrong a few too many times. :-)
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by hmason 16y ago
I put all of the auto-generated e-mails in my drafts folder, so I can edit, modify, or delete before I send on a case by case basis. There's also a whitelist. I'll release the code as soon as I disentangle my personal data from it. Patches
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by hmason 16y ago
Girls are perhaps less likely to try programming when they're younger, which means they come into undergraduate programs less well-prepared, which overall may contribute to fewer women pursuing CS as a major. (I don't have the data to back
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by hmason 16y ago
I didn't intend the title to reference anything in particular, thanks for the comment. I'm sorry that you've found our field to be so inhospitable. That hasn't been my experience at all, though I appreciate your point about making technolog
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by hmason 16y ago
She should learn to write well and share her ideas. Then she has well-articulated ideas that people may pay attention to.