I’m Not a Robot
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The 'I'm Not a Robot' game challenges users to prove their humanity through various tasks, sparking discussion on captcha effectiveness and game design.
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Same for eggplants/aubergines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant
For what it's worth, I consider tomato a vegetable too, and so, I failed the level initially. Which, to be honest, mirrors my experience with real captchas - I usually have a disagreement with them, regarding what counts as part of the traffic light etc.
> The face expression recognition model is lightweight, fast and provides reasonable accuracy. The model has a size of roughly 310kb and it employs depthwise separable convolutions and densely connected blocks. It has been trained on a variety of images from publicly available datasets as well as images scraped from the web. Note, that wearing glasses might decrease the accuracy of the prediction results.
I'm quite surprised that for a moment I thought about genuinely doing it. I like neal.fun a lot! I think a few other people did show their face?
Also, I hit a bug at the AI challenge which prevented me to pass it. So I had to spent at least 5-6 more tries to pass it.[2]
Fun, but wouldn't go near it again :)
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz3gxm42jc2w
[2] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz2o4mdrzc2l
It's the third row where other buildings show up.
https://i.redd.it/rwudh4r46eqf1.png
Edit: never mind. turn off dark reader if you have the same problem.
"You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"
Here is the scene (violent at the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIFMwObyst4
BTW, the movie is very worth watching IMO.
I got stuck on finding a "guitar cat" in Germany.
Now I'm stuck on express yourself.
Maybe I'm a robot after all.
EDIT: 5 or more colours does the trick
I found the latter (it's SPOILER in a window)
I did hit an issue in FF on level 17 (draw a circle): mouse-down triggers a "too closely resembles a dot" and I can't draw a circle on a laptop.
> Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition; it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.
Well, the Wikipedia author who wrote this is clearly mistaken here. Sweet fruits like grapes are rarely called vegetables, so this definition uncommon, not common.
In idiomatic British English vegetable excludes fruit except for those fruits that are treated as vegetables such as tomatoes, etc.
The definition is arbitrary, hard and tedious to specify but nonetheless most people I know agree on which side of the line most common edible plant parts are on.
2. Carrot (whole plant shown). The top is just edible leaves, that is the most definite vegetable. The root is considered a root vegetable and is used as a vegetable.
3. Red onions, one of them is sprouted. All parts are edible (to humans, they are toxic to many other species including dogs and cats). Same situation as with the carrot.
4. Banana or plantain. It's botanically a fruit. Both are the same species and the name depends on whether the cultivar is used as a fruit (sweet, eaten raw or used in desserts) or more as a vegetable (more starchy and used mostly for cooking). I don't bananas well enough to discern the cultivar, so I don't know.
5. Grapes. Botanically a fruit. They are also used as a fruit and the most uambigously not a vegetable of all of them.
6. Corn, seems to be sweet corn. Again botanically a fruit (strictly speaking the individual corns are the seeds). Shown with husks which are also technically edible but you'll probably need to deep fry them to make chips or something. Assuming we are just going with the corn they are considered a vegetable.
7. Avocado. Botanically a fruit. Eaten raw like a fruit. Used in salads and condiments more like a vegetable? The Wikipedia article avoids making any judgment on whether it's a vegetable. So dunno.
8. Mr. Potato Head from Toy Story. A CGI rendering of a plastic toy. Mr. Potato Head should not be eaten. But also he is presumably based on a potato which is considered a root vegetable.
9. Eggplant. Botanically a fruit, culinarily considered a vegetable.
I hope this left you even more confused because it certainly did for me. Also I have no idea what the correct answers are for the quiz, and I got tired of trying different combinations.
https://newsroom.hasbro.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...
I wonder if that's also part of the joke? but I think it's sugarcane, not corn, so probably not.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Diamond_Pickaxe
Also useful to know you need to arrange them in that order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F36bJ57TmM&list=OLAK5uy_khd...
They should teach proving you're not a robot in school, it's a valuable life skill.
Until then, the LLM was infuriating. It kept misunderstanding what I was saying and then calling me a bot.
I apologize to the author for blocking ads. It's a legitimately creative and very well executed site.
I know about the optical illusion, but no idea how to count them.
I quit right after this, because I realized how dangerous it was that I had spent so much time on it already. No good can come after level 23 of a neal.fun game
It seems I can make sticks from the two blocks? But it doesn't seem to work (is there a button to press?)
EDIT just figured it out. I turned those blocks to something else and _then_ turned them into sticks. Got it by randomly moving them around.
I have no idea which images are AI generated, what's the sign that I'm missing?
Par for the course with these captcha-like tests though.
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I just didn't like that you had to use your camera. Oh well I only gave them my ceiling and shutterstock pictures.
Some of the funniest works of Neal that crossed 1,000 points here on HN:
1. Stimulation Clicker (3082 Pts, 8 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611536
2. Design the next iPhone (1463 Pts, 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32567147
3. Space Elevator (1456 Pts, 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35629972
4. The Password Game (1413 Pts, 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36493715
5. Absurd Trolley Problems (1296 Pts, 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31996235
6. Infinite Craft (1177 Pts, 2024): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrLQXR7mKU
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