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Calibrate - New Chrome Extension for hiding numbers so you can guess

by chanamessinger
7th Oct 2022
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Calibrate - New Chrome Extension for hiding numbers so you can guess
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[-]ChristianKl3y91

To be a good calibration tool it might be worth allowing the user to specify a confidence interval before the number is revealed and store the guesses. 

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[-]chanamessinger3y20

One of my feature requests! Just hard to do.

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[-]Tom Shlomi3y60

I really love this idea! Thanks for sharing this, I'm excited to try Calibrate.

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[-]Austin Chen3y31

Big fan of the concept! Unfortunately, Manifold seems too dynamic for this extension (using the extension seems to break our site very quickly) but I really like the idea of temporarily hiding our market % so you can form an opinion before placing a bet:

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[-]Stephen Bennett3y10

Using javascript it'd be pretty easy to dynamically hide/show numbers depending on whether or not the text is a member of a certain javascript class. In this case, the class of interest is "mb-0.5 mr-0.5 text-2xl" (which doesn't show up anywhere else on the main page).

More generally, the extension could allow users to mark numbers as "I want to see numbers that show up in places like this" or "I don't want to see numbers that show up in places like this" and then create a rule to show/hide all numbers in that class. If you create a central database of these votes, you can then extend this across users, so that when someone comes across a new website numbers that they want to see are shown automatically.

Of course, sometimes classes aren't enough, but in the case of Manifold it seems like it'd be sufficient (users could vote on whether or not to see text with the class "text-base text-red-500" and green (for recent shifts in market probability).

One downside to this approach is that it would break if the page updates its javascript classes, but if it's crowdsourced it would probably get fixed pretty quickly and only impact a minority of users.

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[-]chanamessinger3y20

Do you know how to do this kind of thing? I'd be happy to pay you for your time.

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[-]Stephen Bennett3y10

I haven't worked on any browser extensions before (not sure what language they're written in), but I do know javascript well enough. We can probably work something out!

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[-]chanamessinger3y10

Here's the git! https://github.com/SonOfLilit/calibrate?fbclid=IwAR2vBZ8IWfMgHTPla0CbohCUIqmrMUl-XEcYIWhKUrJ4ZRfH2Eg7Z7Zf1J4

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[-]Sinclair Chen3y10

we update our classes very frequently since this we use tailwind and iterate on the styles all the time

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[-]IrenicTruth3y31

Feature request: some way to keep score. (Maybe a scoring mode that makes the black box an outline on hover and then clicking right=unscored, left-right=correct, and left-left-right=incorrect - or maybe a mouse-out could be unscored and left = incorrect and right = correct).

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[-]Eli Tyre3y20

This is great! 

Is there a firefox version? I use firefox for my main web browsing. 

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[-]Maxwell Clarke3y10

I just spent a couple of hours trying to make a firefox version but I have given up. It's a real pain because firefox still only supports the manifest v2 api. I realized I basically have to rewrite it which would take another few hours and I don't care that much.

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[-]tcelferact3y20

Looks great, can you publish it for firefox too? (If the code is open-source I can try and help with this myself.)

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[-]chanamessinger3y10

I will talk to the developer about it being open source - I think that was both of our ideals.

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[-]Maxwell Clarke3y10

I just spent a couple of hours trying to make a firefox version but I have given up. It's a real pain because firefox still only supports the manifest v2 api. I realized I basically have to rewrite it which would take another few hours and I don't care that much.

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[-]chanamessinger3y10

Let me know if you have a cheerful price for this!

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One thing I wish I did more often is checks to see if I understand the world - Fermis, landmark numbers, predictions about how things work, etc.

Along the way I started wishing I could cover up numbers on websites so I would have the chance to guess first and then reveal via mouseover, and Aur Saraf agreed to make a chrome extension, and here it is! Lets you set the default for a whole site or a page. (Not good for dynamic sites like twitter)

Extremely excited.

The code is open source here if you want to add any feature requests.

(I think I want to change the name - let me know if you have thoughts)