You know that sinking feeling when you realize your phone number is as bland as your will to live? That's the phone number void, my friends, and buckle up, In just eight brief paragraphs, you will partake in a journey. were we are both going to learn a thing i myself only learned a mere two hours ago. hanks to the divine intervention of our caffeine deity, Caffeina. I embarked on the Phone Number finder project, not just to pick numbers, but to sift and craft some semblance of digital identity.
In a world where everyone's vying for attention, why should your phone number be any different? It's not just a means to call; it's a attributable item . When was the last time you remembered a phone number that wasn't as catchy as a finding madeleine mccann? so I dove into making phone numbers not just useful, but under valued.
My Approach was
There are some mobile service provider allow customer to pick their own phone number. Let's make a crawler and fetch all the cool phone numbers avaible for purchase!
Data Collection: Amaysim allow customer to pick a phone number online. It will be very easy to fetch all the phone numbers from the API. I use Fiddler to repeatly call the API without worrying about the header/payload of the http request. Then I save all the response into a text file, wash it with python scripts in addition i went hunting down number repos and other blogs.
next, Pattern Recognition. identifying and prioritizing patterns in phone numbers, leveraging statistical likelihood, Phonetics, mnemonics, and phonetic appeal. I also wanted to remove certain patterns, including:
'Triple digits' pattern – Removed because it wasn’t desirable.
'ABAB' pattern – Dismissed as being too simple for your analysis.
I worked on a Python script fitinglu named Bayesian.py to analyze these phone numbers using Bayesian statistics. The goal was to find desirable patterns and prioritize them based on their appeal, making the search results more meaningful beyond just matching standard numeric sequences.
other ideas:
Fibonacci: Imagine your number being as naturally beautiful as the Fibonacci sequence. 1-1-2-3-5-8? It's like wearing the universe on your sleeve!
EKG/ECG: Numbers with a heartbeat? Now that's living!
Catalan Numbers
Phonetic Desirables: Let's make numbers sing across languages. 04- word-word
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