[HN Gopher] Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
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Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
Author : Arubis
Score : 84 points
Date : 2022-07-20 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| unfunco wrote:
| I searched for "Somehow, it's always right now until it's later."
| and it found nothing, I checked on
| http://www.s-anand.net/comic.calvin.jsz and it's "Somehone, it's
| always right now until it's later." - it's not very forgiving.
| jkingsman wrote:
| If anyone else is looking for the dataset, it appears here:
| http://www.s-anand.net/comic.calvin.jsz
| irrational wrote:
| I don't think this is correct. For instance, if I search for
| Susie, it finds Susie comics even when she isn't mentioned by
| name.
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| For instance, the first comic with her has this information
|
| Script Here comes that new girl. Hey Susie Derkins, is that
| your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar? I hope you
| suffer a debilitating brain aneurysm, you freak! She's cute,
| isn't she?? Go away. Description Calvin sees the new girl
| coming and yells a question asking if that's Susie Derkins'
| face or if a possum is stuck in her collar. He then yells that
| she should have a debilitating brain aneurysm. Hobbes says
| she's cute, to which Calvin wants Hobbes to go away.
|
| None of which is in the dataset you listed.
| optimalsolver wrote:
| Calvin & Hobbes & Dune (Calvin & Muad'Dib):
|
| https://calvinanddune.tumblr.com/
| Arubis wrote:
| This is incredible; thank you!
| fzliu wrote:
| I remember this from a while back - good to bring back memories.
| This may be a bit excessive, but using CLIP
| (https://towhee.io/image-text-embedding/clip) or some other
| multimodal learning model in conjunction with Milvus
| (https://milvus.io) could make for a search engine that takes the
| graphics into consideration as well. Not sure how well it would
| work for comics, but it could make for a pretty unique weekend
| hack.
| aargh_aargh wrote:
| Thanks, you insensitive clod!
| racl101 wrote:
| Cool!
|
| Wish there was one of these for Archie comics.
| bombcar wrote:
| I use one for Penny Arcade: https://pipefour.org/pa/
|
| https://inducks.org covers the Disney Duck universe (think:
| Carl Barks, Don Rosa, et al) but it isn't full-text, mainly
| metadata.
| sp332 wrote:
| This page is great and I've used it for years. One thing to note
| is the underlying data (from gocomics) is not always accurate,
| and sometimes you will end up on a comic that does not match the
| search. Sometimes you can find the one you're looking for by
| browsing about a week out in either direction. If you email
| Yingling about it with the correct date or URL, he'll update the
| database.
| acheron wrote:
| I use this all the time to pull up C&H references.
|
| Here's a favorite one I found by searching for "townsfolk" (in
| fact one of two strips that has that word):
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/10/06
| flanbiscuit wrote:
| I found my favorite one right away by searching "snowmen" and
| clicking on the first result:
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/02/28
| damagednoob wrote:
| I quote this one pretty regularly:
| https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/01/02
| teddyh wrote:
| See also: http://www.ohnorobot.com/
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| Looked up "munch", seems like script doesn't match comic for a
| couple of 'em
| gk1 wrote:
| > Your search returned no results.Remember that it searches for
| the EXACT phrase you typed! (And dates must be of the format
| MM/DD/YYYY)
|
| Requiring an exact search is fairly prohibitive. For example I
| searched for "feeling frustrated" and got the above error,
| despite 100% certainty there are strips about feeling frustrated.
| You (or someone) could update this to search by semantics and not
| by keyword, using a combination of SBERT (or similar model) + a
| vector database: https://www.pinecone.io/docs/examples/semantic-
| text-search/
| dakial1 wrote:
| Felt the same way. Some off the shelf algorithms would do
| wonders here. More sophisticated ML to tag (image and themes)
| would be awesomely overkill.
| bombcar wrote:
| Or allow people to tag strips, etc.
| dylan604 wrote:
| shudders at the thought of what "people" would contribute
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| I think this is serious overkill, like you can get a way with
| simple stemming.
| leobg wrote:
| Or lemmatization and BM25. Often better than SBERT in my
| experience when using it out of the box.
| snapdeus wrote:
| I believe there is built in stemming in this search.
|
| I searched the key word "commit" and some results were
| returned with the word "committed"
|
| My guess is this guy just set up a simple DB query on the
| search form and left it at that.
|
| That's what I've done in the past for simple text search.
|
| I know that at least mongodb comes with built in full text
| search and stemming.
|
| What he really should do is set up elastic search but that's
| a big pita to learn all that
| ComputerCat wrote:
| This is so cute! I have all the collections and absolutely love
| Calvin & Hobbes. Definitely brings back some memories!
| irrational wrote:
| Outstanding. I wish it could display the actual strips, but I
| understand why it cannot. I can't even imagine how much work it
| must have taken to compile the metadata for this.
| sharps_xp wrote:
| i've been thinking of doing something similar but for anime and
| with semantic search (ie., "rudeous getting punched") but i have
| concerns about DMCA notices. I also know that search engines have
| a different set of rules for copyright liability but i couldn't
| make sense of them since IANAL.
|
| I might just make it for myself and call it a day.
| forrestbrazeal wrote:
| I immediately searched "Weltanschauung", and was not
| disappointed.
| madcaptenor wrote:
| Looked up "amendment", which I thought of after I had COVID last
| Christmas. It finds 6/16/90
| (https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/06/16) which is
| what I was looking for.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119380 - Feb 2021 (163
| comments)
|
| _Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600211 - Aug 2010 (27
| comments)
|
| _Calvin & Hobbes "Search Engine"_ -
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| comments)
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