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First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that w

First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly in the early 1900s, one with a cinema listing a film I knew the release year for and one with a somewhat iconic pre-war coca cola ad that I managed to pick the exact year for, scored just over 4400 (I guess 5k's the max?). Willing to bet a suitably trained AI would whoop any human's ass though, even ensuring none of the photos were explicitly part of the training data.

PeterisP 4y ago
Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising? Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process. This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:Jewish_Children_with_their_Teacher_in_Samarkand.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s. And in 1935-1936 effectively modern color film was mass-released, so starting from late 30s nothing should be surprising.
- wizofaus 4y ago
  Perhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation that didn't match that of other photos from that period, indeed I assumed it was from the 70s or 80s.
  - wizofaus 4y ago
    https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX is another photo I would never have guessed the year of from the quality of the image. Even if the outfits/equipment are obviously from a particular period, I'd think it was a reenactment or a scene from a movie...

PeterisP 4y ago

Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising? Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process. This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:Jewish_Children_with_their_Teacher_in_Samarkand.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s. And in 1935-1936 effectively modern color film was mass-released, so starting from late 30s nothing should be surprising.

wizofaus 4y ago
Perhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation that didn't match that of other photos from that period, indeed I assumed it was from the 70s or 80s.
- wizofaus 4y ago
  https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX is another photo I would never have guessed the year of from the quality of the image. Even if the outfits/equipment are obviously from a particular period, I'd think it was a reenactment or a scene from a movie...