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Twitch was kinda already interdimensional cable. A former roomate and I would occasionally dive into the depths of twitch looking for unusual and interesting streams and we called it "watching interdimensional cable". There was some really wildly strange stuff out there. I toyed with building a tool to help find streams with the right je ne sais qua, but I never could quite beat our heuristic of just sorting by fewest viewers and scanning for things that looked like they might be good.


Wonder how far you could get with ML plus a simple filter for games that are unlikely to be interesting. Something like "how strange is this stream title for Twitch" and "does this stream preview look like other stream previews that were interesting". Can neural networks detect je ne sais quoi and whimsy?




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