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I was not prepared for the text-to-speech blaring out at maximum volume without warning. I was further not prepared for "mute site" in chrome having no effect. Does anyone have any advice for blocking this behaviour on a global level? Just a warning for future explorers
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I think it's perfectly fine to ask " How many bottles of milk are in the fridge? " even if there is no milk. I admit that most sane people will not answer "Zero". If someone ask " How many elephants are in the fridge? " it would be weird. I don't think that it is unnatural to answer "zero" in the first question, it is probably a social convention. For the second question I agree that is unnatural.
You reflected the example wrong though. Asking "How many blue cats are bouncing?" makes the presupposition that blue cats exist. "How many bottles of milk are in the fridge?" makes no presupposition of any kind. To demonstrate my point using your example: You ask: "How many of the milk bottles in the fridge are rancid?" I go to the fridge and see that there is no milk in the fridge. I now can't answer with any number…
I was recently writing a function that returns early if all items in a list meet a certain condition. It was interesting to think about what should happen if that list is empty.
This is cool though. I never thought to build something to help teach my son anything
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Actual objects don't teach this sort of thing. They may well teach other things. I encourage you to parent your own children. HN users are typically adults and can make their own decisions on whether some screen time for their kids is ok, and what sort of screen time. Doing a logic puzzle is not, in my opinion, the same as going from video to video of squeaky voiced ladies with brightly colored nails opening toy eggs…
The world is complex. And that's why division between screen time and real world at this age makes sense. You let many more brain areas develop when you can touch stuff, move it around with many more degrees of freedom, you have way more complex visual stuff to analyse at different focal lengths and so on. It's quite well documented. But of course, do parent your own children. You are the optimisation function. You m…
I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I mean, here's typical examples of my kid taking in some screen time:
Controversial opinion, but I don't think kids ages 2 to 4 should be having screen time, let alone an activity that is better presented with real objects.
I don't think that's controversial at all. I'm not aware of any kid of age It's usually the first/second issue discussed when sending kids to friends homes.
If it never happens, why would you discuss if it's going to happen?
How many of you have 2 year olds that can read?
For those that can read, was this thru your parental efforts, self taught, or daycare / 3rd party?
How many languages can your 2 yr old read?
I just played this with my daughter who is 4 year old. She have found the first 4 levels easy. She was having a little bit trouble with level 5 negation and conjunction but we had to take a break since we were running for a date.
She didn't have any problem with zero being on the right.
She didn't have any problem with linguistics compherension so far.
She was able to differentiate colors and animating cats from the rest and it was perfect.
She is familiar with digital buttons so she was able to press them but even with her tiny fingers sometimes pressing 4 instead of 5 etc. (We played on mobile)
I direct the game for her. (Start, go up levels when she was bored)
Overall thank you for this because she is going to have a gifted and talented "test" next week and this looked very similar to that and she was active and entertained choosing the answers so I can see this could be a good segway I to it.