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A liiiiiitle more info on the games from your homepage would be nice! Then I can see if it's something worth playing. Which I'm sure it is! Congrats!


Thanks, you're absolutely right! The plan is to make individual game pages with little gif/video trailers and brief explanation of the different games but this is just something that I haven't yet gotten around to do :D


Based on this, I made a way to search party programs instead using vector embeddings: https://zweefhulp.nl. Lmk what you think.


So, your project still uses AI. I'm curious, what did you do while developing this site in order to fight against the bias?


Vector search isn't full blown AI and should be inherently less prone to bias. It just converts words/phrases into vectors where the distance between the vectors represents semantic similarity.

It doesn't encode value judgements like whether a policy is good or bad, it just enables a sort of full text search ++ where you don't need to precisely match terms. Like a search for "changes to rent" might match a law that mentions changes to "temporary accommodations".

Bias is certainly possible based on which words are considered correlated to others, but it should be much less prone to containing higher-level associations like something being bad policy.


Which bias?


Like every other ML system, probably that it reproduces whatever skews exist in the training data.


But how do you remove that? Is there an objective political truth?


We just reached out and made it super easy to contribute with just a few minutes of their time


Most speakers on Quest haven't published their answers anywhere else before because it's easier to create something sincere and personal using audio. Since people already listen to audio advice in for instance podcasts, we think it works.

Anyway, I'm genuinely sorry for your frustration. I hope your day progresses smoothly otherwise.


What does being sincere and personal add to their message? This is business, not life advice.


Dude come down, if you don’t like it move on, no body is forcing you to listen to them. Stop being so entitled, if you think you know more and are better than the people on Quest go on and build your successful business on your own.


Soon!


Both things we should absolutely do. Thanks!


You're not wrong


The button has the pause icon, but it doesn't pause it stops and when play is hit again, it starts from the beginning. There is no pause behavior.

It would be nice if I knew how far along the individual clip one is. The background for the currently playing segment should be highlighted.

Since this is a multiparty QA, it would be nice to be able to listen to just one person's answers.


Ouch, that first one is definitely a bug. As for duration, that's definitely something that's missing and we can fix it by showing a proper timeline. You can already click on someone's profile to listen only to their answers, but we could make that easier to find and do as well.

Thanks for this!


lol, would love a 1-click button but love the information density and specificity relative to a podcast.


Short, dense podcasts aren't unusual. Scientific American's "60 Second Science" is a good example. "NPR News Now" is just a few minutes long and updated hourly.


Hi, founder of Quest here. Yeah I guess it is! We're building an audio Q&A app where experts answer questions in short audio clips. We're starting with career advice and are already hosting 100+ speakers so far.


Do you have any plans to make this content accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing?


FYI, your about/jobs/policy page is broken.


Thanks! Hotfixing...


Good luck building!

How do you go about meeting them? Or how do they reach you?


Thanks! We just get in touch over email and make it super simple to answer remotely.


Thanks for sharing this! As someone in a fiberless city (Amsterdam), with a monopolistic local provider that's unwilling to expand, this is inspiring.


What happened to Citynet? They were supposed to wire the whole of Amsterdam with open access fiber. Did they stop after the Reggefiber/KPN acquisition?


The cost for micro trenching can be upwards of $200k a building in Manhattan. I would assume dealing with sunken homes, collapsed PoE's and NIMBY folks would make it prohibitively expensive.

But I have no idea why they stopped.


Manhattan?



Maybe life doesn't suck. Today: canal trash is credits cards, cell phones and Megaman. The past: fishing hooks, spear heads, a nazi coin and nothing more fun than tobacco pipes and dice.


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