We did that in Bulgaria back in the days as well. We also had a special verb for the act of ringing and hanging up immediately - "to clip" (from Calling line identification presentation = CLIP).

There was also the case where one of your friends would have many free minutes in one of the network. Then you would just "clip" them and the expectation was that they call you, because it was for free.

Same in Portugal: we called it "dar um toque". Literally: to ring only once. I grew up with this.

"Dar un toque" in Spain, grew up with it as well haha

I remember doing it with friends, girls I liked... it's interesting how we're constantly looking for ways to communicate.

'Anklingeln' in Germany. Mobile credit on pocket money was expensive..

„Puścić strzałkę” (to send/drop an arrow) in Polish. Also sometimes called „puścić sygnał (to send/drop a signal), „puścić dzwonek” (to send/drop a ring), and other variants.

Fare uno squillo in Italian

Yes, this will probably happen. Many people in Germany already didn't want it, because of it's worse efficiency...

I find it fascinating that the behavior emerges from the cooperation of many, many people working together towards a common goal.

This is one of my projects using OpenAI's CLIP model to do interesting things. So the big credit goes to them!

I processed 2M images from the Unsplash dataset with CLIP and stored the feature vector representation of each photo (a 512 element vector). You can now encode a text query with CLIP in the same latent space and search the database.

I also tried doing some simple arithmetic with the feature vectors to combine the result of a search query and a photo. You can for example search for "Sydney Opera house" and give it a bight photo and you will get a photo of the Sydney Opera at night.

You can directly jump to the Google Colab notebook if you want to give it a try: https://colab.research.google.com/github/haltakov/natural-la...

Quite an interesting project!

Wanted to give it a shot but it seems to fail when attempting to fetch the precomputed features - 504 Gateway Time-outs. Quota limits might have been reached?

Yeah, it's a 2 GB file, so it hits the quota limit on the Google Drive pretty fast. There is a problem with the mirror at transfer.army that I'll fix today.

This is a small side project I built to see how people play the game of Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. It is funny to see how many people concentrate on beating the bot, instead of maximizing their score...

You can find the bot on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DilemmaBot. You can start playing by tweeting "@DilemmaBot play".

I'll be happy to answer any questions!

This is a small side project I built to see how people play the game of Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. It is funny to see how many people concentrate on beating the bot, instead of maximizing their score...

The code of the bot is available on GitHub: https://github.com/haltakov/prisoners-dilemma-bot

I publish the high-score list regularly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/haltakov/status/1364349097554116615

I'll be happy to answer any questions!

I think we will get there soon! CLIP is a new model that OpenAI published in January and I'm sure Google is working on similar technology, which can be used for both video and image search.

You feel like this, because you are right :) Just search online for "google captcha self driving".

CLIP is quite a new model published by OpenAI in January. Their work is novel and pushed the state-of-the-art in this area by a lot. I'm sure that Google is also working on similar applications.

And I think they already have something similar. Recently, I've seen search results on Google that point you to a specific time of a YouTube video...

Yeah, indexing all YouTube videos is surely possible, but out of the scope of a personal project :)