Aufhebung

Inspiration

Hegel, Plotinus, Ontological Mathematics, Philosophy

What it does

Dialectical engine bridges opposing sides

How we built it

Qloo api, js, web api

Challenges we ran into

• Qloo's joint taste signal leans toward whichever side is louder, so a "bridge" just echoed one audience. We fixed it by re-ranking every candidate against each side separately and scoring by the lower of the two.
• Insights returns at most 50 results per call, so we capped the candidate pool to keep every score real instead of guessed.
• Some anchors aren't accepted as a signal for some content types (HTTP 400). The agent now borrows that side's own top picks from a type that works and retries on its own.
• Mega-hits score high with every audience. A small popularity penalty keeps each bridge specific to the pair you typed.
• Free-text inputs are messy: "Rancid" matched a book called Rancid Aluminum. The agent re-searches across all types when the first match looks wrong.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting to use Hegelian dialectic for something finally

What we learned

Sublimation

What's next for Aufhebung

Posterity

Built With

• javascript
• node.js
• qloo
• vercel
• web-audio-api