Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
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#19320 matches is my high after spending 20 minutes with it. I think I could probably get that to 30 ish with another hour. Obviously you should not be rotating, but finding features of the shapes that are invariant with respect to rotation to calculate. We can think of the two middle segments as defining two coordinate axes which I'll just call the body, with the remaining segments the legs. There are three cases. 1) bo…
First attempt is 5. But anxiety levels were sky high. Throwback trauma.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Difficult to control for the effects of "building toys" such as Lego being primarily marketed at boys. These types of toys help train this kind of spacial awareness from an early age. See also early computers being marketed almost exclusively at men and boys, potentially being the cause of a major drop off of women in computer sciences in the 1980s: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
Not really. Babies show sex differences in spatial skills. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209100948.h...
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#196This link had me auto banned for one day in FB with no chances of review by human :(
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#198How did you do this in only a weekend?!
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#199great idea but the UX is very poor, it's not intuitive at all
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#200It's fun! I'd love to see some sort of more obvious feedback when you're wrong.