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That said, that this is a meme some people take seriously (like the idea of wordcels) really makes me irrationally mad.
For those unfamiliar with the meme context of "shape rotators": https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotato...
As an undergraduate in physics, I sort of prided myself on being able to "derive things from scratch" which is the culture in physics, given profs gave tests with the formulae and physical constants so you never really had to memorize, you just needed to show your work. At the time, honestly, I looked down humanities and history and even bio students as they were just memorizers who didn't have a deep understanding of things.
When I went to graduate school, one of my best professors said he heard people amongst my cohort saying things like this, that physicists are good a deriving and are not memorizers, he made the joke that he thought that people saying this were doing so to weaken the competition, so to speak. The idea that any set of skills is not necessary to be a scientist just makes you a worse scientist than others who have those skills. At this point in life, I've learned that holding on to things like your MBTI scores as if it's your identity honestly just limits you. Like imagine saying, "I'm a python person, I'm not able to do ruby. It's against my personality," instead of it really being what it should be seen as, just another skill to learn or one your just haven't learned yet (or might not even want to!) Instead, saying "I use python in my daily work, I'm less familiar with ruby" makes more sense because that's how it is. So, ditto that with everything else honestly, I feel like people can have preferences and that's fine, like you can enjoy reading a book more than playing a video game with spatial reasoning, but limiting yourself to being a "math person" or a "people person" or a "reading person" is just that, limiting yourself.
A totally different style of game which also seriously stretches spatial reasoning: https://vladimirslepnev.itch.io/zigzag Inspired by Super Hexagon (remember that?), you need to repeatedly tell a "snake" which way to go with the left and right arrow keys... while the game viewport twists and rotates randomly as it continually zooms out. GoOd lUcK. (It's from here, 1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29…
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Does anyone else feel their brain “heat up” when doing intensive thinking like this?
Sometimes the initial rotation hides a part of the shape. Also, I have always wondered if there's a way to translate these shapes to strings for quick "mental algorithm" matching. Something like, "5, left turn, 3, right turn..." I guess you'd need a normal form. The first turn can be defined as always "right" or "left," and subsequent turns can be right, left, up or down. The first turn that's "up" or "down," can be…
No it can’t, not in 3D... it is just a turn.
You can however choose to rotate about the first segment until the turn is Right, then use this orientation for the rest.
In terms of normal form and restarts, who cares? Just generate the string both ways, it’s 2n computations, choose the lowest in lexicographic order, and life is good. If you get to billions of turns are humans really going to be doing the comparison? Surely we’d just stream the string into a hash function or something...
apt install blockout2I’d be really curious to collect gender before testing, because I feel like this is always one of those go to examples of the difference and male and female brains, would be curious to know if there is any substantial actual difference.