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Mini Cities – Cato Institute(cato.org)
6 points by danielfetz 1mo ago|0 comments
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Mini-Munich Succeeds Where KidZania Fails(minicities.org)
1 points by danielfetz 6mo ago|1 comments
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by danielfetz 6mo ago
"There are two well-known attempts to build miniature cities for children: Mini-Munich and KidZania. Both have streets, storefronts, jobs, and a local currency. But they are built on opposing assumptions about what children are capable
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Serious Play – Mini-Munich, Something More Than Children's Entertainment(minicities.substack.com)
1 points by danielfetz 7mo ago|1 comments
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by danielfetz 7mo ago
Children behind bank counters, in city councils, as mayors, as newspaper and television editors, as employees in registration offices, as workers in a furniture workshop, in a stonemason’s workshop – naturally, none of that is possible. The
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Fermi Question of the Day: How many babies were born worldwide in 2024?(fermiquestions.org)
3 points by danielfetz 1y ago|0 comments
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by danielfetz 1y ago
I have now implemented a share function, thanks for the suggestion once more!
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by danielfetz 1y ago
I greatly appreciate your suggestions, munch. I really like it, but I worry that the game loses some of its mainstream appeal through that. I don't know, I have to look into this in more detail. However, I did find a solution to bring
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by danielfetz 1y ago
This is fixed now and you can't play questions on repeat.
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by danielfetz 1y ago
I think I found a solution to bring the focus a bit away from the binary search and would greatly appreciate feedback from you. The game now shows a hint after the second incorrect guess. For example the hint "The US covers 1.87% of th
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by danielfetz 1y ago
One of the main downsides of the game so far was the focus on doing somewhat trivial binary search if one did not succeed in getting within ±20% of the correct answer with the first guess. I think I did find a solution to bring the focus a
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by danielfetz 1y ago
It should now be fixed.
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by danielfetz 1y ago
It should now be fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience! If there is any issue remaining, please let me know!
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by danielfetz 1y ago
It should now be fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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by danielfetz 1y ago
It should now be fixed. Sorry for the delay!
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by danielfetz 1y ago
That is very unfortunate and I'll be looking into this. Thanks for surfacing this to me!
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by danielfetz 1y ago
Hi Andrew, great seeing you here. I'd love to chat with you because I also plan to create some more games around Fermi estimation in the future. I would, if you don't mind, send you an email to the address you've listed in yo
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by danielfetz 1y ago
Initially the win criteria was within ±10% of the correct answer, but 15 minutes ago I changed it to ±20%. My rationale here is that the goal of the game is to get within the ballpark of the correct answer. And a guess of 80 billion when th
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by danielfetz 1y ago
The UX change you propose would be quite an improvement and it is unfortunate that I haven't considered that myself. I'll implement that in the next few days.
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by danielfetz 1y ago
I'll definitely support scientific notations going forward. But it might take one or two days before I have that implemented. The orange means your answer is within 50% of the absolute value. I might change it at some point away from a
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by danielfetz 1y ago
I'm sorry for that, I should put up a different screen when all questions are answered. The archive doesn't go back any further than that as of now.
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by danielfetz 1y ago
No, you didn't miss it. I will implement that either today or tomorrow. If you don't mind to answer: do you have any other feedback? Is the win criteria of ±10% good? Or should it be loosened up to ±25%?
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by danielfetz 1y ago
That sounds good! Would you also say that the win criteria should be loosened up a bit? More like ±25%?
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by danielfetz 1y ago
It's quite extraordinary that so many people have come before us, and it gets quite sad when one understands that half of those died before they turned 15 years old. The human graveyard is full of children, and we shall never forget wh
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Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions(fermiquestions.org)
35 points by danielfetz 1y ago|42 comments