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Very cool idea, but what I'd need way more often: Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of stocks and tell me how to put them together to have a perfect portfolio. https://www.tradingview.com/heatmap/stock/ Or better yet, tell my robot how to do it.
What meme is this from?
I just tested it on my kids lego clone bricks; there are like 800 of them but they are almost exclusively basic shapes (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and 1x4) in red/black/blue/green/yellow/gray. This is a picture of the box: https://static-v3.e-jumbo.gr/uploads/resources/137879/201611... ; you'll see they are exactly like legos. The app identified 400 pieces (of the 800) and unfortunately the resulting ideas were not poss…
Wild to comment that someone’s app for identifying legos doesn’t identify not legos.
To be honest, what I love about legos is the free play aspect. When I play with my kids, (now 8 and 10), I find that the key thing is not what pieces we have (admittedly, we have a lot of pieces), or instructions, but developing some theme or challenge. The theme could be ‘space’ or ‘under water’ or ‘I’m going to build the taller possible leg structure’ or ‘I’m going to build a vehicle that can be blown across the fl…
My preference towards free-play, and opinion against guided-play (following manuals) used to be similar to yours. But my sister made me realize how much that my earlier guided-play was essential to develop my fundamental building skills that allowed my later free-play to thrive. My sister inherited my Lego box but with no manuals, so she only ever knew free-play, and she describe her experience with Lego growing up a…
I guess my point here is, you’re right. The fundamentals are important. Both the guided and the free.
To be honest, what I love about legos is the free play aspect. When I play with my kids, (now 8 and 10), I find that the key thing is not what pieces we have (admittedly, we have a lot of pieces), or instructions, but developing some theme or challenge. The theme could be ‘space’ or ‘under water’ or ‘I’m going to build the taller possible leg structure’ or ‘I’m going to build a vehicle that can be blown across the fl…
My preference towards free-play, and opinion against guided-play (following manuals) used to be similar to yours. But my sister made me realize how much that my earlier guided-play was essential to develop my fundamental building skills that allowed my later free-play to thrive. My sister inherited my Lego box but with no manuals, so she only ever knew free-play, and she describe her experience with Lego growing up a…
I wonder if the specialization of bricks since then has contributed to that "totally lost" feeling. I look at our pile and it's mostly specialized doodads and widgets for who knows what Star Wars thing a few years ago.
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Not so fast. Sock magic: I've only bought black socks over the last 5 year, and still I can't seem to find ones anymore that exactly match in both fitting and color (they all seem to have degraded in different color tones)
Ah, the trick here is to buy all your socks at the same time, and open all the packs at once. Don't just open a pack every now and then, or they'll age differently and you get the variation in wear and tear. Then once you're down to a few days' worth of raggedy socks, throw them all out at once and open the next batch. (Source: Am a fellow black-sock-only person who made the above mistake last time around.)
Mitigation might include not washing any socks until all clean pairs are exhausted, but this may result in a smelly linen bin. Alternatives might be keeping clean socks in a pair of tights with the toes cut out - most recently cleaned in the top pushing down, fresh pairs taken from the open toe; hang this up for a better UX.
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My preference towards free-play, and opinion against guided-play (following manuals) used to be similar to yours. But my sister made me realize how much that my earlier guided-play was essential to develop my fundamental building skills that allowed my later free-play to thrive. My sister inherited my Lego box but with no manuals, so she only ever knew free-play, and she describe her experience with Lego growing up a…
When was this? As a kid in the eighties, there were few unique bricks. Squares, rectangles, varying thickness. Maybe two types of wheels and tires (these were prized above all). I wonder if the specialization of bricks since then has contributed to that "totally lost" feeling. I look at our pile and it's mostly specialized doodads and widgets for who knows what Star Wars thing a few years ago.
Oh it's _Lego_ bricks (:
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Wild to comment that someone’s app for identifying legos doesn’t identify not legos.
These bricks are exactly the same as normal legos and of course they are compatible. I can't differentiate from real legos unless I check if they have the lego logo on them. So I'm not sure this is a problem with these bricks...
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> What's next? Finding a needle in a haystack? I’m working on a jigsaw puzzle and hit a bit of a dry spell and was hoping there might be an app that could help find the pieces in a pile and where they go. Nothing exists yet that I could see. I imagine with a completed picture and a view of a piece it would be possible to show where in the picture the piece goes to reduce the burden. Extra pints if you can give it a v…
Combined downloads for my Scrabble game solver (take a picture of the scrabble board, take a picture of your rack of tiles, play the optimal word) and my jigsaw puzzle solver (finding a needle in a haystack) totalled up to less than the fingers on the hands of a bad Youtube woodworker practicing every unsafe operation with a table saw whilst being inanttentive. After two years, back in 2013-ish, I removed the apps fr…
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These bricks are exactly the same as normal legos and of course they are compatible. I can't differentiate from real legos unless I check if they have the lego logo on them. So I'm not sure this is a problem with these bricks...
Why don’t you try the app on real legos first?
It just happened that my kids were playing with the lego clone and I definitely don't want to have both boxes on the floor at the same time :|
