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Re: List animals until failure

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Post by apt-apt-apt-apt »

nerdsniper wrote: post #87
apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #52

Lazy daisy: (async () => { for (c of 'red black white brown blue green yellow golden grey arctic mountain forest spotted striped'.split(' ')) for (a of 'bear lion tiger wolf fox eagle shark whale snake frog cat dog horse bat rat mouse owl hawk duck crab ant bee spider deer penguin elephant rabbit'.split(' ')) { guessbox.value = c + ' ' + a; uncomment(); attempt(); await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 75)); } })();

(async(s=new Set(Object.values(PARENT)))=>{for(i in ID_TO_TITLE)if(!s.has(i)){guessbox.value=ID_TO_TITLE[i];uncomment();attempt();await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame)}})() This is a concise, pretty naive way highest possible high-score by just guessing everything in the internal animal database, and avoiding "parents". I'm not sure how many points it would get us because it would take like 3 hours to complete. Ho…

Bro treated this like a coding interview lol

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe »

Funny. I had an idea in the past about asking schizophrenic patients this kind of task ("list objects"). Then analyze the trajectory in LLM embeddings space of this enumeration. I'd be surprised if there weren't useful patterns.

(I'm a psychiatry resident and dev)

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by yuppiepuppie »

Client1003 wrote: post #137
yuppiepuppie wrote: post #47

Nice! I added this to the HN Arcade https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/list-animal...

Fantastic. Thanks for this. Might you want to add Super Monkey Ball too if you haven't already? https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789961

Here you go :) https://hnarcade.com/games/games/super-monkey-ball

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by merelysounds »

This is a very fun project, I like its UX a lot too.

I generally dislike timers, but I discovered that this one can be customized in the settings, this is a nice touch.

I also like how the sharing feature only prepares the text that the user can later copy to their platform of choice.

There may be downsides (e.g. people could cheat) but I still prefer prioritizing UX like this.

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by ileonichwiesz »

keanebean86 wrote: post #128
eru wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apples are not fruit in the strict botanical sense. > Apples are considered "accessory fruits" (or sometimes termed "false fruits") rather than true botanical fruits because the fleshy, edible part develops primarily from the flower's hypanthium or receptacle, not just the ovary. The actual, true fruit is the core containing the seeds, making it a pome.

These discussions are really fun to me. The opportunities to be absurdly pedantic are almost endless. Common words for things gloss over so many details. Most of the time those details aren't important but they still exist and there's someone on the internet that cares deeply about them.

My wife is a biologist, and as I understand biology on an academic level is just near-constant arguments about seemingly basic terms and concepts.

Life, species, gene, organism - we don’t actually have consistent definitions of what those are. Biology is the science of fluid spectrums, so any rigid classification you’d propose breaks down at the edges.

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by nerdsniper »

apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #191
nerdsniper wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(async(s=new Set(Object.values(PARENT)))=>{for(i in ID_TO_TITLE)if(!s.has(i)){guessbox.value=ID_TO_TITLE[i];uncomment();attempt();await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame)}})() This is a concise, pretty naive way highest possible high-score by just guessing everything in the internal animal database, and avoiding "parents". I'm not sure how many points it would get us because it would take like 3 hours to complete. Ho…

Bro treated this like a coding interview lol

Honestly it was a pretty fun and interesting exploration / investigation. Really scratched a hobby itch for me XD

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by eru »

adrian_b wrote: post #144
keanebean86 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These discussions are really fun to me. The opportunities to be absurdly pedantic are almost endless. Common words for things gloss over so many details. Most of the time those details aren't important but they still exist and there's someone on the internet that cares deeply about them.

We must accept that most people are careless in their choice of words, so they frequently do not use the words in their strict sense but they use them in a broad sense, instead of using the most appropriate word. However this is annoying, because especially with the modern fashion that linguistics shall be only descriptive and not prescriptive, like in the past, many words have become more and more ambiguous. For thi…

I wouldn't blame people. 'Fruit' is a perfectly fine English word.

I would blame botanists for overloading everyday terms with their own specialised meanings.

Mathematicians are also prone to this, but I guess it's less likely someone will mix up a ring or field in the everyday sense and in the mathematical sense.

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