maximedb

What kind of games do your kids play on Alexa?

Indeed, I'll change that so you can see the word after you run out of time/questions. The word was belt.

Do they see this game as good way to practice their English?

Thanks for the suggestion! Changed it to 'ask your question here...'

My PhD project is to work on language model capable of playing the answerer in a Twenty Questions game (reverse of Akinator). If you are interested you can play here: https://twentle.com (best on mobile)

The goal is to play together with other people with a leaderboard on a large screen. The player who found the most words wins the game! It is a bit similar to quiplash.

On the back-end is a GPT-3 model answering the questions with: never, rarely, sometimes, always or usually.

Direction display would be useful. You don't need to look at your phone anymore.

Would a smarter auto-correct help?

Did you also try with "retrieval" models models such as RAG, REALM, etc ?

Or block javascript for this domain in the chrome settings.

You can't do pull requests on a normal website. IMO, it is a nice experiment.

Thanks for your suggestions. It is updated every day at market close. Will add a dropdown to select between YTD/MTD/1Y. Would you be interested in receiving a weekly update to your inbox?

Hi guys,

I realized the internet lacks a simple place to monitor financial markets: a list of markets and their year-to-date performance, nothing more.

There it is.

Let me know what you think!

Maxime.

Thank you for this. It is so simple, yet so true.

Thanks, I will check it out. There are a few python wrappers around Bloomberg APIs. For example: https://github.com/kyuni22/pybbg. It mimicks the Bloomberg Excel formulas (BDP, BDH, BDS). Quite powerfull. But you can hit the daily limit easily (500,000 data points per day max). They released the Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) that you can use to make larger queries. But not all FLDS fields are available yet... They also provide BQNT, a jupyter notebook where you can run BQL queries and share "apps" with your colleagues.

Really interesting project IMO. It would be great to have this linked with an app that actually computes how much CO2 you consume while travelling and proposes to offset whatever you are consuming.

Hi HN,

Regular poker platforms ban the use of bots. They fear bots provides an unfair advantage. But honestly, I don't think it is the right response. Instead of fighting the use of bots, platforms should think hard on how to best incorporate bots in the game with humans.

For example, I could find on several forums that the capacity to analyze thousands of "hand histories" provides an unfair advantage to bots. Ok, fair enough. The solution is simple: anonymize players and hand histories become worthless.

That is why I am working on a poker platform for bots. The one thing I learned in StartupSchool 2019 is that you should talk to potential users before working on a solution. So here I am with a discussion and a landing page :-)

What do you guys think?

Thank you!

Maxime.

Really cool. It would be super useful to have this in other languages as well, french in my case. This would be a useful addition to a grammar checker I am currently developing.

Hi HN.

This is a new side project of mine.

The goal is to create a series of questions & answers and use it for off-line treasure hunts, team buildings, online quizzes, or giveaway contests.

FYI: there is a Spider-Man PS4 giveaway contest scheduled on the 23rd of December.

Why did I build this? On the night of Halloween, I created a static website with that my friends had to visit and answer the questions/instructions. Once you answered a question correctly, you were taken to the next. It was in a sense an online treasure hunt that took them from my apartment to the nearest bar, and then to the nearest parc. It was fun. So I decided to make a website out of it. Here it is.

Let me know what you think.

Maxime.

PS: the static website is on my GitHub https://maximedb.github.io/halloween18/