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cowllin··on Show HN: Strava for Cooking
Had not heard of it, thanks for sharing! I tend to think it’s good to follow one’s muse and make something useful for oneself and friends rather than over focus on “competitors”

I took this approach for my last two projects (Water Cooler Trivia and Twofer Goofer) and ultimately was able to scale and sell both with a lot of elbow grease!

cowllin··on Eclipse October 2023
When's the next one? How big does an eclipse need to be to start wreaking havoc on the grid? Or is that a "never" situation still?
cowllin··on Twofer Goofers Found in the Wild
Twofer Goofers are pairs of rhyming words. Here's some found in the real world.
cowllin··on Launch HN: Roundtable (YC S23) – Using AI to Simulate Surveys
10/10, no notes: https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/884fd5db560a3dce2cb2ed1c15596c...
cowllin··on Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
Ethan has been an excellent source for keeping up with the advances in AI on his twitter account, through the lens of both academia (he's a professor) and "industry" (he professors in an MBA program).

I recommend him as a follow: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1636454151272931337

cowllin··on Bard is much worse at puzzle solving than ChatGPT
Fair! But if I wrote Twofer Goofer in the title it would not resonate at at all. Alas, tradeoffs.
cowllin··on Bard is much worse at puzzle solving than ChatGPT
In the article, I mention that Twofer Goofer requires perfect or strict rhyme. Perfect and strict rhyme require that all syllables are pronounced identically in the speaker's tongue (for me, American Midwest accent), except for the first sound of the word which can vary.

Hence pooh-teen and proh-tein do not rhyme. Skell-ih-tin and Gell-ih-tin do rhyme.

A game like this requires a pretty tight rhyming definition to not annoy players in a given day!

Thanks for reading: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/perfect-vs-imperfect-rh...

cowllin··on Bard is much worse at puzzle solving than ChatGPT
Hah - we only made the blog over the weekend and don't have any nav or menu for now. But yep we link the prior article a few times in this article, that article goes into more detail!
cowllin··on Bard is much worse at puzzle solving than ChatGPT
I tried it both ways; with individual prompts and prompts in bulk. I ran both tests the same way. There's a tradeoff in writing a legible/interesting blog post and relating step-by-step the way the evaluation was ran! Appreciate you reading and the feedback :)
cowllin··on Bard is much worse at puzzle solving than ChatGPT
From Chicago ... and with more than a thousand solves on that puzzle we've never received a single complaint about the rhyme on that one (plus the stats say users find it an extremely easy rhyme to solve)! Curious how you pronounce that one such that they don't rhyme?
cowllin··on Can GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 play Wordle?
Hah - very similar to this post earlier today: https://twofergoofer.com/blog/gpt-4
cowllin··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
twofergoofer.com - just a fun daily word game. no monetizing, no plans to monetize. wanted a new "daily brain game" for my grandma's arsenal and have had fun making a celebratory piece of art with midjourney each day.
cowllin··on Interior AI autofills photo of room with CG furniture/art
Love it! More and more consumer-friendly tools using SD/Midjourney/DALLE where it just "feels like magic" is so exciting, like twofergoofer.com and other games sprouting up.
cowllin··on Harrison Bergeron (1961)
The ~25 minute short film titled 2081 of this story is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVHgpCnBmk
cowllin··on Show HN: Twofer Goofer, rhyming word game built with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion
This is fixed :)
cowllin··on Show HN: Twofer Goofer, rhyming word game built with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion
Nope! Or at least not when they have the same number of letters.
cowllin··on Show HN: Twofer Goofer, rhyming word game built with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion
Yep we use both! And Midjourney can be added to a private server in Discord which tbh is just like a web app. I prefer Midjourney to Stable Diffusion so far! While having both, I've been more pleased with Midjourney ~80% of the days. Been on DALL-E waitlist for many months but never got access ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
cowllin··on Show HN: Twofer Goofer, rhyming word game built with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion
Hm, what was the error on submissions? Have not heard of this before and have had thousands of submissions this week! And you can turn off our "custom keyboard" in settings :)
cowllin··on Show HN: Twofer Goofer, rhyming word game built with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion
Yes we actually started working on this without knowing about Midjourney. I was talking to upwork illustrators before realizing it would be expensive to commission one piece of art each day. Learning about Midjourney was perfect timing!
cowllin··on Show HN: Twofer Goofer, rhyming word game built with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion
Huh super strange, digging in right now. Thanks for the feedback!
cowllin··on Show HN: Twofer Goofer, rhyming word game built with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion
Zoinks! Been tricky to get the keyboard on all size devices to fit with the hints. Will go tweak and fix that right now. Thanks!
cowllin··on Show HN: Yearly Faves – showcase your fave books and support indie bookshops
Yup just hand making things in Webflow for now. Will probably automate at some point with zapier or something similar.
cowllin··on Show HN: Yearly Faves – showcase your fave books and support indie bookshops
Well, initially I built this with Amazon affiliate links but then realized I'd like it to spread the word about Bookshop.org which supports independent retailers instead!
cowllin··on Show HN: Yearly Faves – showcase your fave books and support indie bookshops
booyah glad to hear it! Yep, I started this with Amazon affiliate links but was more proud of it when I switched to Bookshop!
cowllin··on Show HN: Yearly Faves – showcase your fave books and support indie bookshops
good point - will change that right now!
cowllin··on Show HN: Yearly Faves – a dead-simple way to showcase and share your fave books
Hi! I've kept a reading journal for each year in the past decade, and this year I decided to move to the digital realm... so I've made a dead-simple website where you can submit your favorite books (or albums!) of any year at a Google Form, then our team will turn it into your personal Yearly Faves page.

I'll be seeding this with famous readers (yearly-faves.com/oprah) and there's an index of all the folks who have submitted: yearly-faves.com/everyone!

Sign up early for the sweet, sweet vanity url of yearly-faves.com/first_name

cowllin··on Show HN: Papercups – Open-source alternative to Intercom
Switched to Papercups from Drift a few months ago. Really like how dead-simple it is and the fact that we can reply and resolve customer threads right in Slack.
cowllin··on GPT-3 vs. 3M free-text trivia responses
I thought about removing those two-word clues but ultimately, they exist for users so I wanted to be closer to apples-to-apples!
cowllin··on GPT-3 vs. 3M free-text trivia responses
We gave him a spreadsheet of questions and he gave us a spreadsheet of GPT-3 responses, so probably not actually shared access :)

But point well-taken!

cowllin··on Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
Async team building as weekly ritual is often a better investment than a one time event, one of the many reasons I built watercoolertrivia.com :)
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