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  1. Comment on What are some corporate websites that you consider extremely reputable sources of information? in ~tech

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    Back in school I was taught to avoid URLs with a ~ in it. I later learned that URLs with a ~ were not "reputable" because they were often a user's home directory where they may have published...

    Back in school I was taught to avoid URLs with a ~ in it. I later learned that URLs with a ~ were not "reputable" because they were often a user's home directory where they may have published content that was not officially affiliated with the main organization. Pretty silly.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Correct! Everyone has the same word and shrimp wasn’t ever used to date.

    Correct! Everyone has the same word and shrimp wasn’t ever used to date.

  3. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Thank you so much for all the feedback! We just pushed some changes: Fixed the word of the day being incorrect in some cases, like yours (let me know if you still have issues) Added some...

    Thank you so much for all the feedback!

    We just pushed some changes:

    • Fixed the word of the day being incorrect in some cases, like yours (let me know if you still have issues)
    • Added some additional notes in the "How to Play" section.
    • Improved answer consistency for vague questions (though, as you mentioned there's only so much we can do here)

    I'm glad you guys are enjoying the game! We're constantly trying to improve the game and comments like this really help us.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Yeah, size comparisons work much better than just "small" or "big". We left some notes in the how to play section about this.

    Yeah, size comparisons work much better than just "small" or "big". We left some notes in the how to play section about this.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We handle this better on the back-end now, but we also added a page that gives some tips around asking questions.

    We handle this better on the back-end now, but we also added a page that gives some tips around asking questions.

  6. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We ended up adding a "How to play" section with some tips around asking questions that will hopefully help people.

    We ended up adding a "How to play" section with some tips around asking questions that will hopefully help people.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We just added a "How to play" button that mentions this as one of the things not to do. :)

    We just added a "How to play" button that mentions this as one of the things not to do. :)

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Haha you'll know when you win. You're on the right path though. ;)

    Haha you'll know when you win. You're on the right path though. ;)

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We were confused why some people were posting #18 challenges a day early and realized that some of you were living in the future! The daily word changes every day at 00:00 UTC, but there was a...

    We were confused why some people were posting #18 challenges a day early and realized that some of you were living in the future! The daily word changes every day at 00:00 UTC, but there was a client side bug that displayed the wrong number for some users. This is now fixed and everyone should be on #18 today.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Heh, we picked up some tricks when we made another game called Doublespeak that gamified jailbreaking LLMs. We learned a lot on the way and wrote down a lot of our findings in the handbook there.

    As an aside I was not able to jailbreak the LLM or override the character limit in the pages javascript in the cursory attempts I made so good job on that.

    Heh, we picked up some tricks when we made another game called Doublespeak that gamified jailbreaking LLMs. We learned a lot on the way and wrote down a lot of our findings in the handbook there.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We originally built another game called Doublespeak that gamified jailbreaking LLMs. We learned a lot on the way and wrote down a lot of our findings in the handbook there. OpenAI LLMs are the big...

    We originally built another game called Doublespeak that gamified jailbreaking LLMs. We learned a lot on the way and wrote down a lot of our findings in the handbook there. OpenAI LLMs are the big dependency we're using for Quizzle. The backend is written in Go and does input normalization to help with response quality and caching, before getting sent to the LLM. We also do what we call Templated Output to handle responses from the LLM.

    Can't wait to see what you launch!

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Thank you so much to everyone that's been playing and leaving comments in here. It's been super useful in helping make the game better! Here are some changes that are live: Added "View Your...

    Thank you so much to everyone that's been playing and leaving comments in here. It's been super useful in helping make the game better! Here are some changes that are live:

    • Added "View Your Questions" button after winning or exceeding 20 questions
    • Added alt tags to emoji answers (on hover) to improve accessibility
    • Reduced "Quizzle" logo size on smaller screens
    • Questions about the word itself (letters, counting, etc) will return "not sure" responses to lead people away from that path. It's not accurate and also not in the spirit of the game.

    Keep the feedback coming! :)

    6 votes

  13. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

  14. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We were working on a change after hearing it from others as well. If you refresh you should be able to go back to your questions now.

    We were working on a change after hearing it from others as well. If you refresh you should be able to go back to your questions now.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We were working on a change after hearing it from others as well. If you refresh you should be able to go back to your questions now.

    We were working on a change after hearing it from others as well. If you refresh you should be able to go back to your questions now.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Need gift ideas for a seven year old girl in ~life

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    I got a Yoto Mini for myself...even though it's for kids. Edit: Ah, I misread. This is more than $20.

    I got a Yoto Mini for myself...even though it's for kids.

    Edit: Ah, I misread. This is more than $20.

  17. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Did you happen to lose internet connectivity at that point? Going to investigate the issue, but for now you should be able to just refresh the page and continue the game.

    Did you happen to lose internet connectivity at that point? Going to investigate the issue, but for now you should be able to just refresh the page and continue the game.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    I appreciate the feedback! I just responded to another comment about this issue so I'll re-post: I think we do need to think about the behavior some more though so that people don't end up getting...

    I appreciate the feedback! I just responded to another comment about this issue so I'll re-post:

    We haven't tuned it to work well with asking about letters, length, or other linguistic characteristics of the word itself. Questions like "does it start with A?" are usually considered "cheating" when it comes to twenty questions. While we don't outright block those questions, we've made no effort to ensure the accuracy of those answers.

    I think we do need to think about the behavior some more though so that people don't end up getting frustrated over going down the wrong path.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Thanks! We'll look into that and try to push a fix soon.

    Thanks! We'll look into that and try to push a fix soon.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    We're modifying the user input a bit and using various LLMs for answering the question which have context of the word.

    We're modifying the user input a bit and using various LLMs for answering the question which have context of the word.