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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by petesergeant »

ksec wrote: post #102
TrackerFF wrote: post #39

One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0

>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0 How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?

> Score: 4947; Avg. Years Off: 1.2

Skill issue.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by pyfon »

4580. Helps if you recognise the current affairs. Gay marriage, Arab spring, London Blitz came up. Leaving me with a party with a mix of drab and 70s disco clothing so I guessed 1981 and was close enough!

The one that got me was some people at a beach in black and white.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by pyfon »

atoav wrote: post #17

A fun (hard) addition to that would be the color photography by Sergey Prokusin-Gorsky because the picture quality is so out of its time (~1900) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Galle...

Oof what! They are like a modern phone camera almost. Much better than 80s film cameras. A lot of work must have gone into that.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by macintux »

earthtograndma wrote: post #118
macintux wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I averaged 5 years off, but my average would have been much better without one photo that I botched by 16 years because I'm unfamiliar with early 19th century swimsuit styles. There were 2 major world events represented, that helps. Clothing style helps.

If you guessed the 19th century, you were off by a bit more than 16 years.

And here I complain about people erroneously specifying EST all summer along. They’re only off by 1 hour.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

airstrike wrote: post #107
clippyplz wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another for year + location https://whentaken.com/

Holy, I was off by 7 years and 427km on my first guess and I don't want to play anymore because I've surely peaked

I just got one that was off by 2 years and 24.2 meters, but it was kinda cheaty because it showed Barbara Bush on the South lawn of the White House.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by HelloMcFly »

conception wrote: post #100
jillesvangurp wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an interesting phenomenon that you can observe with other things as well like tastes in music. I think it has something to do with people having access to about sixty years of people trying out just about everything they could think off. It's all been done before at this point and it's all available in new and fresh forms. So, it's no longer about collectively picking something that is genuinely new but individu…

Probably more that’s it’s much easier to market and sell something that’s been done before than come up with something new. Also our supply chains are highly specialized for the stuff we currently make. In 3-5 years we will see bell shaped pants back again as we go from 90’s repeats to 00’s repeats which were 70’s repeats. Etc etc.

Perhaps another less depressing reason is the intersection of two things:

1) For all its negatives, online culture makes it easier to find and acknowledge different groups with different tastes that share yours, you're not as subject to having to "fit in" just with those near you. Maybe another way to say it is that fewer things are "weird" because it's easy to find others doing something similar

2) The availability of styles is not quite as bottlenecked into a limited number of taste-makers like it used to be.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by lolinder »

pngeez wrote: post #34
redbell wrote: post #15

That was fun and definitely a bit challenging to figure out—I scored 3677, landing in the top 46%, with an average of 9.2 years. As for some (hopefully constructive) feedback: I think the year selection slider could benefit from a few adjustments. If an image is from the distant past—say, pre-1950s—it might make more sense to use decade-based precision rather than individual years. For example, a black-and-white phot…

Hi, I made this game. Really appreciate the feedback! Seems like older images tend to be frustrating, so I think I'll use them less going forward. Also, older photos are scored more generously, so being a few decades off won’t tank your score nearly as much as it would on a newer one.

No, don't stop using the older images! They were the most fun for me! Reasoning about the political landscape that would have led to the beach photo was challenging and rewarding when I got it right. And the London Blitz photo was also a ton of fun to see and think about.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

macintux wrote: post #124
earthtograndma wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you guessed the 19th century, you were off by a bit more than 16 years.

And here I complain about people erroneously specifying EST all summer along. They’re only off by 1 hour.

I skip specifying Standard or Daylight time altogether, and just use ET (or CT, MT, etc). Much easier on my brain, and nobody actually cares which they're in at the moment.
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