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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

#71
post #69

I guess I'm getting a bit paranoid, but whenever I see a game like this, my first suspicion is that it's just a trainset annotation UI in disguise.

Nah seems like pictures choosen for this purpose? Or do you mean they will sneak in a picture with an unknown date every now and then to good estimators?

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

#72
post #31

Very fun, but I'm horrible at this WhichYear 4/20/25 3045 pts 13 avg. years off 4⃣ whichyr.com

I thought hackernews strips out emojis, interesting.

There are indeed no emojis on that comment for me, are you using a different client?

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

#75
post #69

I guess I'm getting a bit paranoid, but whenever I see a game like this, my first suspicion is that it's just a trainset annotation UI in disguise.

Nah seems like pictures choosen for this purpose? Or do you mean they will sneak in a picture with an unknown date every now and then to good estimators?

Something like this, pretty much.

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

#76
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought hackernews strips out emojis, interesting.

There are indeed no emojis on that comment for me, are you using a different client?

I can actually see the emoji for number 4 on iOS Safari.

It’s in the 3rd line, the one before the website url (penultimate).

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

#77

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

Is that really true? It is true for me, but I always assumed that is just because I were younger last century. In 1990 I could easily tell if someone was looking like 1980, but today I could never guess if someone looked like 2015 or 2025. I would be happy to learn that this is because fashion actually slowed down, but until proven wrong I will just assume it is because I am older and not paying attention.

It's easier to identify women's fashion among millennials imo:

2000's: jeans

2010's: leggings

2020's: not those

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

#80

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

This cultural phenomenon is sometimes called "the Long 90s"
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