Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by Fnoord on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:42PM (#16304793)

Can recommend Lichess [1], the puzzles are a lot of fun! I can also recommend Wordfeud (a Scrabble clone), and Duolingo (an interactive language-learning tool by professor Luis von Ahn (creator of reCAPTCHA)). But I can also recommend mindfulness, or listening to music which makes you relaxed such as classical or ambient music.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by pcmaffey on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:37PM (#16306429)

Self-plug: I built a 5 minute word game for this very reason (diffuse mind time) that fits right in with your list of options.

www.esoterica.io

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by Fnoord on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:27AM (#16307425)

That's cool, just didn't know how to confirm at start.

Reminds me of a game by Microsoft. I really like Wordament. What I like about it, is that if you select the same language, you get the same puzzle. So you can play against a friend who's sitting in the same room! Who'd have thought I'd love a game by Microsoft (for Android!). Only annoying this is the ads; I wish I could buy a premium version.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by pcmaffey on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:23PM (#16310758)

Will check out Wordement. I definitely plan on incorporating heads up mode, as I love the competitiveness of blitz on lichess and similar. But it introduces a whole new level of engineering challenges, so first building out solo mode.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by driton on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:21AM (#16308101)

Cool game!

Is there a chance to get longer words in the mix? I could be blind, but the longest word I was able to spot was 5 letters long, I think.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by pcmaffey on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:19PM (#16310728)

Thanks! Sure are. Words currently go up to 7 letters long... I will probably increase to 10 soon, so long as that size dictionary doesn’t impact performance.

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