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Matrix Chat with Embed Search Engine

blog.mwmbl.org
1 points·by daoudc·2 months ago·0 comments

Thoughts on Standardizing Languages

daoudclarke.net
1 points·by daoudc·5 months ago·0 comments

Repeating Prompts

daoudclarke.net
2 points·by daoudc·5 months ago·0 comments

Trying New Things

daoudclarke.net
3 points·by daoudc·5 months ago·0 comments

[untitled]

5 points·by daoudc·last year·0 comments

Re-ranking search results on the client side in Rust

blog.mwmbl.org
6 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

Reranking search results on the client side in Rust

blog.mwmbl.org
1 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

Re-ranking search results on the client side

blog.mwmbl.org
4 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine

daoudclarke.net
73 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·138 comments

[untitled]

5 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

How do we know how good our search results are? [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

The search engine where you choose the sites to crawl [video]

youtube.com
4 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

Show HN: Now tracking the number of unique URLs in the Mwmbl index

mwmbl.org
1 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

Pentominoku for Layla

logic-masters.de
11 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·1 comments

Pentominoku for Layla

logic-masters.de
1 points·by daoudc·2 years ago·0 comments

Indexing a billion pages

blog.mwmbl.org
122 points·by daoudc·3 years ago·35 comments

NeurIPS 2023 Primer

nlpnewsletter.substack.com
1 points·by daoudc·3 years ago·0 comments

Why is curation of web search results important?

blog.mwmbl.org
3 points·by daoudc·3 years ago·0 comments

We are entering a new era of web search

blog.mwmbl.org
3 points·by daoudc·3 years ago·2 comments

Mwmbl Update – Over 100M pages indexed

blog.mwmbl.org
4 points·by daoudc·3 years ago·0 comments

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daoudc
·2 months ago·discuss
Our lecturer for condensed matter physics based a large part of the course on an (excellent) book that was out of print [1]. He kindly had it photocopied and bound for us all for free.

[1] https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00stau/mode/2up
daoudc
·2 years ago·discuss
Yes, we veto sites to prevent spam.

I'm not sure you would like the results of what you suggest - if you are really going to crawl everything indiscriminately, you will end up with a lot of rubbish. Just check out Common Crawl if you want to get an idea of what it would look like.
daoudc
·2 years ago·discuss
Yeah the ranking algorithm is just wrong right now. I'm working on it.
daoudc
·2 years ago·discuss
The curated items will stay the same, but we can't expect all queries to be curated.
daoudc
·2 years ago·discuss
I took the page down as it was attracting the wrong sort of attention. As some commenters surmised, the goal was to promote the search engine, but it wasn't working out that way...
daoudc
·2 years ago·discuss
Spot on
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
Here's an alternative for streaming services that I've been trying out: buy second hand DVDs, rip them, then serve them with Plex. You can get 5 DVDs for £10 which is more than I can watch in a month, and less than I'd pay for Netflix, and the choice is huge, even if I restrict myself to these cheap ones.
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
I can't comment on the question as I'm not a designer and not in Germany, but there's a typo on the GitHub page: "tought" -> "thought".
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
Hi HN! Would love to get your feedback on this idea and the feature. It is super early and there are lots of issues with it, but the basic idea is there.
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
All I can see is a "continue with Google" button...
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
This is so cool, the new machine is a beast!

Do you know roughly how many pages you have in your index?
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
I've been using dokku for Mwmbl and have been fairly happy with it.

Congrats on the recent success by the way ;)
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
That seems to be because it's written kamilkazani, and automatically splitting such names is a hard problem
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
The more people that join, and help us crawl, the better it gets.
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
Yes, I took a break for a while, my fourth child was just born! Still committed to the project though and working on it when I get time.

Thanks for your encouragement. Would love to have a chat some time.
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
We actually just take the union and then re-rank. Because the lists are all small, this is cheap.
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
Yes, you're correct on the purpose. We mitigate it a little by also indexing on bigrams.
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
The API is open so feel free to write your own front end that doesn't need js, or send a PR to add support for no js.
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
10240000 - see https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/18dc760a3402c74803823a94...
daoudc
·3 years ago·discuss
Thank you! Join us if you like, there is plenty of work to do.