47 points Liogra123 1 hour ago 15 comments

codeulike 1 hour ago | parent

For those confused by this, here is the Mitchell and Webb "Numberwang" sketch

https://youtu.be/0obMRztklqU?is=qufDLUkqofpr-K1Y

doormatt 59 minutes ago | parent

And that's a bad miss...

shervinafshar 49 minutes ago | parent

And here's the history of Numberwang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofnDdi-vfw

codeulike 18 minutes ago | parent

And so OPs app should have been called Colloson I guess

grufkork 15 minutes ago | parent

Rotate the board!

pimlottc 11 minutes ago | parent

Featuring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman!

tazjin 43 minutes ago | parent

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.

wrs 41 minutes ago | parent

Do we really know that? Or have we only seen the sequences from people searching for Numberwang? Has a number been both Numberwang (or Wangernumb) and not Numberwang (or Wangernumb)?

tazjin 15 minutes ago | parent

Yeah, we do - there's a famous episode where after rotating the board both contestants stubbornly kept picking 1, and after a couple of iterations one of them was Wangernumb.

aesthesia 29 minutes ago | parent

I'm also not sure that we know a non-number can never be Numberwang.

ceocoder 24 minutes ago | parent

A non-number could be either a Numberwang OR a Wanganumb - this does depend on whether Yorkshire is a pudding or not.

stackghost 35 minutes ago | parent

Hello I have a question, and my question is what the fuck

dofm 20 minutes ago | parent

That's not even a number.

numberwan9 14 minutes ago | parent

Hey! I was not consulted?

bonyt 6 minutes ago | parent

You're playing with fire here, don't forget the tragedy of Colosson. Computers weren't meant to do this.