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WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages

55 pointsby 2h agogithub.com
19 comments
22m agoHN ↗

My favorite line, especially as an American because I can say it out loud without the person getting upset since they have no frame of reference. And other Anglophiles I could probably handle.

50m agoHN ↗

And so OPs app should have been called Colloson I guess

42m agoHN ↗

Featuring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman!

1h agoHN ↗

I don't think that this produces correct results, as it seems to determine whether each individual number is Numberwang. However, whether a number is Numberwang can also depend on the previous numbers in the sequence or other factors.

So I think as it stands right now this model can only determine whether a number would be Numberwang as the first number of a sequence, but even for that I still wouldn't rely on this in the actual game show.

1h agoHN ↗

Do we really know that? Or have we only seen the sequences from people searching for Numberwang? Has a number been both Numberwang (or Wangernumb) and not Numberwang (or Wangernumb)?

47m agoHN ↗

Yeah, we do - there's a famous episode where after rotating the board both contestants stubbornly kept picking 1, and after a couple of iterations one of them was Wangernumb.

1h agoHN ↗

I'm also not sure that we know a non-number can never be Numberwang.

56m agoHN ↗

A non-number could be either a Numberwang OR a Wanganumb - this does depend on whether Yorkshire is a pudding or not.

1h agoHN ↗

Hello I have a question, and my question is what the fuck

24m agoHN ↗

In some bases it is. Numberwang!

With All Due Love,

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, Esq.

38m agoHN ↗

You're playing with fire here, don't forget the tragedy of Colosson. Computers weren't meant to do this.

17m agoHN ↗

Amazing, I passed by Mornington Crescent only yesterday!