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- This is hilarious and I miss numberwang. Also, the history of numberwang. And everything to do with numberwang. It was the most prescient sport back in the day.
I'm glad that someone has stepped up to revive the legacy of numberwang.
by karim79 - How did you all first learn about the original Numberwang? Netflix?by da02
- Hey! I was not consulted?by numberwan9
- What's the training corpus, just the canonical Mitchell and Webb sketch? Or ancilliary data like comments and references, or worse synthetic data generated on the primary sources?by TZubiri
- Amazing, I passed by Mornington Crescent only yesterday!by jl6
- You're playing with fire here, don't forget the tragedy of Colosson. Computers weren't meant to do this.by bonyt
- For those confused by this, here is the Mitchell and Webb "Numberwang" sketchby codeulike
- 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.
by tazjin