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amichail
18,811karma·7,884submissions·February 20, 2007
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I'm an indie game developer.
My previous games include DropZap and DropZap 2 for iOS.
My latest game is DropZap World. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1072858930
https://bsky.app/profile/dropzapworld.bsky.social https://x.com/DropZapWorld https://www.threads.net/@dropzapworld
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While I agree that personalization is the way to go, I think that most users would like more control over personalization rather than rely on some mysterious collaborative filtering algorithm. Moreov…
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You can also use it to do code search by automatically tracking which commit comments correspond to which lines of code. That way, you can search for drag and drop say and get back code that has been …
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Is it not the case that a major motivation for doing your own startup is to pursue your own idea? So the question that needs to be asked is this: what is the probability that k people will collectivel…
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Here's my attempt at better social news: http://groups.google.com/group/forwarding-tree. You can try a fully functional service that works like this here: http://forwardingtree.com/
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As another example, consider using human-based genetic algorithms to create daily news shows, perhaps in the style of this site (but using people rather than computers): http://www.newsatseven.com
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If you think that it would be morally wrong to lie in this way, would it be better if the service told you that it may lie at times to enhance the user experience?
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One might imagine having a service lie to, for example, make it look more busy (so as to attract more users) and/or to detect cheating. Is this a reasonable thing to do? See for example how the ESP ga…
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Just to take one example, one might build a service where users invent board games. This could be done using human-based genetic algorithms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_genetic_algorithm.…
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I like this idea but I think success may be limited to games that are highly visual in nature. In fact, the same may be said of startups in general: video is better than images and images are better t…
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http://www.miketaber.net/articles/TheSingleFounderMyth.aspx
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Why are you reluctant to accept one person companies? One person is often sufficient for a workable prototype. Others can join later. In fact, Y Combinator can act as a match maker of sorts, encouragi…
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There are different forms of creativity, some more open-ended than others. Most research done in scientific fields is not what I would call open-ended creativity. BTW, the most creative idea I have se…
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I suspect that startups are for more creative people. So you need to decide whether to pursue an analytical phd or a more creative startup. BTW, you might find this discussion interesting: http://we…