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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 defrost »

pembrook wrote: post #200
input_sh wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I'd prefer for a young white male demographic to not riot against music primarily associated with certain marginalised communities anymore.

The person you’re responding to is an autistic wheelchair-bound lesbian woman living in Ghana. What now? Personally, I’d prefer internet commenters argue in good faith instead of emotionally parroting 2010s social justice identity jargon. You could have responded with something op was missing about said music (interesting history, examples of artists innovating there, etc) instead and added some value to the thread.

I'd be suprised if an autistic wheelchair-bound lesbian woman living in Ghana would either confuse reggaeton with trap or be overly bothered by a local excess of either sufficient to want to detonate and destroy any physical media given much of it would be immortalised as digital patterns in the cloud.

I can respond with music from women in

* Nigeria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvY31eN3gtE

* Zambia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lvgKDpiSA

* Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ4by3lUJo

* The Gambia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmmlOQnTXM

and suggest there's some interesting cross cultural threading in all these examples.

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

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Post by input_sh »

pembrook wrote: post #200
input_sh wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I'd prefer for a young white male demographic to not riot against music primarily associated with certain marginalised communities anymore.

The person you’re responding to is an autistic wheelchair-bound lesbian woman living in Ghana. What now? Personally, I’d prefer internet commenters argue in good faith instead of emotionally parroting 2010s social justice identity jargon. You could have responded with something op was missing about said music (interesting history, examples of artists innovating there, etc) instead and added some value to the thread.

What a sane and normal response! Did I not already share some interesting history? Aren't you directly replying to that?

But okay, here's another one: that same queer and black community from Chicago that definitely didn't feel great about ~50k white men burning their records developed a new (now super popular) genre on top of the ashes of disco (both metaphorically and literallly).

Its name is a reference to a nightclub in Chicago called The Warehouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse_(nightclub)), which was frequented primarily by gay black men in the early 1980s. People all over Chicago were looking for the type of music that was playing in the Warehouse, hence the name: 'house music. So, not only was that day in Chicago fundamental to the death of disco, but it was also fundamental to the birth of house music. The more you know!

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

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Post by akudha »

clippyplz wrote: post #94
psittacus wrote: post #45

There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the location https://timeguessr.com/ Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203511 edit: found another game like OP in the linked thread https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html

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

Where do these sites source the photos from?

This is a nice idea. Only issue are the ads - the ad on the bottom right is bleeding over the photo, there are two video ads playing simultaneously... Makes it annoying to play

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

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Post by rafram »

dgfitz wrote: post #133
numa7numa7 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's all been done before Until something new is done ;) The sound pallette is just about infinite with what's possible.s. I think modern music has become homogenous because true art is risky and won't pass a modern focus group.

I keep waiting for inside-out clothes to be a thing. Hipsters were getting close at one point.

They are. Lots of sweaters with seams on the outside.

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

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

input_sh wrote: post #90
Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Can we organize an event to blow up reggaeton records (or trap, or latin urban, or whatever they call it now - sounds all similar to me) and hope for it to go away?

Personally, I'd prefer for a young white male demographic to not riot against music primarily associated with certain marginalised communities anymore.

I'm from Spain and here that music is pretty much everywhere you go. Not associated with any specific community at all.

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

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Post by foobarchu »

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

I found it equally interesting how much you can identify a photo's time period by the film qualities.

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

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Post by jazoom »

pngeez wrote: post #194
jazoom wrote: post #189

Looks like I also have to play "guess the timezone of the creator of this game". I enjoyed playing it yesterday. It's now 11am today and it's still not open again. I have no idea when it will be.

Hey thanks for playing! The game resets at midnight ET. I'm working on adding a countdown to the next challenge right now. Apologies for the lack of clarity on that

You don't need to apologise. You created something cool and my family enjoyed playing it.

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

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Post by peripitea »

codetrotter wrote: post #199
calmoo wrote: post #183

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I would bet it would still do well. You can give a frontier LLM photos that it has never seen before and it will reason about them incredibly accurately, since is is trained on, well, a lot of other similar photos. You can easily try it yourself, give o3 a photo you have taken yourself of a random place, it will crop, zoom and analyze different sections of the photo until it gets most of the time the exact coordinate…

> it will crop, zoom and analyze different sections of the photo until it gets most of the time the exact coordinates of where the photo was taken. I will give it a try myself too. But all my photos that I take with my iPhone have date and GPS location embedded in the metadata so I will first have to transfer the pictures to my computer and strip them of metadata.

You can just take a screenshot of them. Not the cleanest way to do it but probably the fastest if you don't already have special tools on your phone.

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

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Post by gblargg »

pngeez wrote: post #53
gblargg wrote: post #44

I wanted to play more but couldn't find any way. Refresh page, no new game link, tried entering URL again. Checked but no cookies to delete. That's one way to ensure I never visit the site again.

Hi, I made the game. Appreciate the feedback! Working on a mode that lets you play more right now.

Sorry for being so hard on it. I looked at the intro page again and see now that it's not what I was thinking, where you have a large database of good photos with known dates it can choose from, instead each day your curate (I assume) a few photos for everyone to try and compare results (for the same photos). So it's not just a matter of letting someone play again, because currently they would get the same five photos. I took it to be something like the classic "Am I hot or not?" with a database of tons of photos.
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