- I’d recommend having the crossword grid take up the full screen. If there’s enough width and height, you could start the player in the middle. That would give it more of a feeling of unlimited bounds which feels more appropriate given the free-thinking theme
- For rotating between horizontal and vertical, consider using a single toggle key instead of two separate keys. That would make it faster to work with, especially if it’s something that doesn’t require moving to the function keys (something like Shift + Enter).
- You might also want to change the UI color or add a visual indicator so you can immediately tell which mode you’re in. Right now, it’s not clear whether you’re about to type vertically or horizontally.
Having tried a number of these online loudness meters in the past, without using some reference calibration, it's likely going to give you pretty inconsistent results out of the box. (the site does have a calibration offset)
I've got three sites open, one shows 55 dBA, another shows 30 dBA, this one shows 35 dBA, and my actual physical Sound Level Meter shows 45 dBA.
Yeah, I think that's a legitimate concern. It's hard to know, even with sufficient training data, how far these systems can actually generalize their problem-solving abilities when they become data starved in the future either because of scarcity or that any potential new training data is contaminated by LLM radiation.
Too bad we don’t have a portal gun to access an infinite number of parallel universes where large language models were never invented for sources of unlimited fresh training data and unlimited palpatine power.
I'm more optimistic about LLMs tracking down and fixing issues in software, even without SO/forum posts, at least for OSS. I've seen enough unique insights from agents on tricky problems to know it wasn't extrapolating from a helpful comment somewhere.
It hit me that as it's deciphering some verbose log file, it has also read through all the source code that wrote that log, and likely all of the discussions/commits that went into building that (broken) feature.
I don't think so, because Anthropic now has your question, the steps it tried, and the solution that finally worked, all in text form, already on their servers thanks to your claude session. Claude usage is itself a goldmine of training data.
This. I’m sure everyone has a similar story of how difficult it was to explain the difference between a program shortcut represented as a visual icon on a desktop versus the actual executable itself to somebody who didn’t grow up in the age of computing. And this was Windows… the purported OS for the masses not the classes.
Nice job. For reference, these are known as tangram or inlay puzzles.
Growing up we had a physical version of it: a stack of a hundred large cards with progressively more difficult outlines of various shapes along with a bag of simple geometric pieces (triangles, diamonds, etc.). The goal was to fill each outline perfectly using the fewest number of pieces, which was printed on the card.
Yes, my inspiration was the 19th century tangram puzzle, which had 7 pieces called tans.I too have memories of playing that in my childhood, it used to be fun. Netflix has a game called shapes that is exactly Tangram but web based
Kind of reminds me of the "Living Chess" performances they do at ChessFest in London where actors dress up as chess pieces on a large board.
Looks like they recorded people in a time-lapse and then broadcast it as a looped video synced to the current time. Watching the sped-up timelapse is pretty funny because it looks like a clock surrounded by a nest of angry bees.
This. They kind of snuck this into the release notes: switching the default effort level to Medium. High is significantly slower, but that’s somewhat mitigated by the fact that you don’t have to constantly act like a helicopter parent for it.
I used to joke that an Afghan Tinder would just be swiping left or right on pictures of eyes because of the niqab.
Sexy Math
This is sort of a variation on the classic NSFW jigsaw/Rubik’s cube-style puzzle, and of course a number of old ’80s PC games where you revealed a risque picture.
If you want to make this more amusing, you should really include some saucy pictures of actual mathematicians, kind of like a play on the “sexy scientists” calendar in The IT Crowd.
Spot the Differences
There’s a great episode of The Office where Pam distracts Creed, the new acting manager, from destroying the branch by giving him two pictures from corporate and asking him to find the differences. Of course, they’re the same picture.
Funny how a lot of these ideas already exist in some form - just in slightly different contexts.
"Sexy mathematicians" is actually a great direction, didn’t think of that one. Or teachers could upload their own photos and send them as assignments for motivation :))
Non-absurd societists can also play the 3rd sexy math game by changing the URL, where the other premium things are better blocked by the membership tier.
Agreed. I remember seeing quite a few non-standard designs in the days of Vista, especially when Microsoft was heavily promoting the Windows Presentation Foundation framework and using XAML for UI design.
The problem with setups like this is that the moment you need to resize them, place them in a specific spot, or move them to a larger or smaller monitor, they tend to scale terribly and end up causing all kinds of “death by a thousand cuts” issues.
- I’d recommend having the crossword grid take up the full screen. If there’s enough width and height, you could start the player in the middle. That would give it more of a feeling of unlimited bounds which feels more appropriate given the free-thinking theme
- For rotating between horizontal and vertical, consider using a single toggle key instead of two separate keys. That would make it faster to work with, especially if it’s something that doesn’t require moving to the function keys (something like Shift + Enter).
- You might also want to change the UI color or add a visual indicator so you can immediately tell which mode you’re in. Right now, it’s not clear whether you’re about to type vertically or horizontally.
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