This is awesome. I had the same feeling I had when I first played GeoGuessr. It's one of the first times I've seen what is obviously AI-generated video used in a super compelling way. I want to keep playing.
A few super nitpicky comments:
- I dropped my pin for "Seward's Folly" on Alaska. The videos were clear enough that I knew that's what it was, which made me excited. But then it said it happened in Washington, DC.
- It might be sample bias, but I've only gotten events after year 0 (and technically, it went from 1 BCE/BC to 1 CE/AD.
I'd love to play with this my seven year old, but some of the images are too violent. A "PG mode" would be awesome.
The Seward's Folly had an additional issue besides the fact that some of the locations were in DC and others were in Alaska:
The video of the signing in the White House shows Rutherford B. Hayes, not Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was president in 1867, not Rutherford B. Hayes.
Your location estimate was off because you matched the 3-out-of-4 of videos showing Alaska / Russian Army / Tligits.
My time estimate was off because I matched the only video from the White House ...which was showing Rutherford B. Hayes in office.
The internal struggle of this project is that it's most likely to attract people interested in history, and these are exactly the people who are most likely to spot inconsistencies and dislike the experience.
Having said that, it's a first occurrence when I see AI-generated videos that provide something of a value.
I gave up on gpg when I couldn't get my key signed at defcon multiple years in a row. If there's not interest in it at defcon, I don't know where else to go.
The one that gets me every time is Parkmoore and Moorepark on opposite sides of 280 in San Jose. I be someone thought they were being clever when they named them.
In Chicago, Wacker Drive has an Upper and Lower, goes North, South, East, and West, and crosses itself 6 times. Confusing for people who aren't familiar with it!
It’s called Bayesian Search Theory, and is even more interesting when you consider that not finding it at a given location gives you information about where it might or might not be.
Not quite the worst use for floats, bad though that would be.
I've received a few SMSes over the pandemic that used a float for their caller ID.
Not sure why the German Federal government chose to identify itself as "+4.4786E+11" when welcoming me into the country (actually me switching my UK SIM card to no-longer-Airplane-mode) and telling me to quarantine and test.
I recently recieved an email from Phillips (re CPAP recall) which said "In the meantime, your device registration confirmation
number is 2.02xxxxE+15." [some digits obscurred by me, although they dropped some of the trailing digits].
The all matching socks strategy breaks down over time. Eventually you need to buy more socks, and the new ones aren't as worn as the old ones, so you end up having to match them anyway. My solution to this is to buy a large batch of identical socks. Then when you need new ones, buy another large batch that are slightly different - e.g. grey hiking socks instead of black, or wool hiking socks that have a slightly different pattern but are still the same style. This reduces the matching problem from matching all pairs to matching into a couple different sets, which is much easier.
They have lotion in the fabric. You probably want to wear them more than once, if possible, maybe stretch them to a couple days if you didnt make them gross right away. Once you wash them they turn into regular fuzzy socks.
But on those days that they are fresh, there is nothing like them. I have a stash tucked away for special days, and once they are done, they get added to the normal fuzzy sock rotation. Turns out you can wear black fuzzy socks pretty often.
I have tinnitus and hearings aids help a lot. I only have mild hearing loss (35db at high frequencies in my worse ear), but it matches the frequency of my tinnitus.
A few super nitpicky comments:
- I dropped my pin for "Seward's Folly" on Alaska. The videos were clear enough that I knew that's what it was, which made me excited. But then it said it happened in Washington, DC.
- It might be sample bias, but I've only gotten events after year 0 (and technically, it went from 1 BCE/BC to 1 CE/AD.
I'd love to play with this my seven year old, but some of the images are too violent. A "PG mode" would be awesome.