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Where do you think I found out about the yellow dots? I was stuck on puzzle four and procrastinating by reading hacker news. Just in time, there was an article
by otaviogood 15y ago
Where do you think I found out about the yellow dots? I was stuck on puzzle four and procrastinating by reading hacker news. Just in time, there was an article here about the yellow dots. I looked at the shredded pieces and they were there in a nice pattern. Hacker news FTW!
- daeken 15y agoThis is amazingly clever. Congratulations on the win! Would you consider posting something about the process you took?
- otaviogood 15y agoWe have been meaning to do that but have been distracted by real life. Hopefully we'll get it together soon. I'll post a link on HN when we do.
- ajays 15y agoI have known about these yellow dots for years, but it never occurred to me that DARPA would have used color printers for this competition. I need to fire up those 'orthogonal thinking' neurons!
- hinathan 15y agoVery clever. Kudos on shipping a new rev of Word Lens, too.
- ohashi 15y agoThat's an absolutely brilliant hack. I was playing with those challenges a bit, I've read about those yellow dots multiple times, but it not once occurred to me to use them. Well done.
- maresca 15y agoI did the first two puzzles. I skipped to the fourth when I saw different colored inks on a hunch that the names were in different colors. I wrote an algorithm to pick out the different colors, but got too burnt out to finish. I felt bad when I saw my hunch was right. Well done using the yellow dots, that was quite a novel approach. Congrats on your win.