214 points by alex_hirner 12 days ago | 37 comments
Visualizing Bayes Theorem (2009)(oscarbonilla.com) I recently came up with what I think is an intuitive way to explain Bayes’ Theorem. I searched in google for a while and could not find any article that explains it in this particular way.
Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve(akkartik.name) For a while now I've been advocating for a particular style of programming: Use tools that don't change too often. Use tools that don't keep historical accidents around indefinitely. Minimize moving parts. Avoid additional third-party libraries, and forswear native libraries entirely.
A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization(abstractnonsense.com) I recently went on a nice long SCUBA diving trip with my wife and daughters. Lots of diving implies lots of showers, and lots of showers means lots of shower-thoughts! [1] An especially interesting one I had turned into a nice way to visualize some aspects of the Collatz Conjecture.
137 points by abstractbill 18 days ago | 26 comments
Visualizing 100k Years of Earth in WebGL(technistuff.com) What did Earth look like when humans migrated to the Americas? Changing sea levels and large ice sheets during the last ice age played a key role in human migration and explain many archaeological sites now buried under the sea.
228 points by nathan-barry 35 days ago | 25 comments
Visualising home sun exposure with Rhino(ostwilkens.se) We're doing a lot of renovations right now. I've been thinking about how our house is used, but also how it could change in the future. One thing I didn't give much thought when initially looking at the house is how it relates to the cardinal directions. Well, we've been living here 4 years now, and I'm just now realizing we don't have a lot of evening sun.
A Visual Journey Through Async Rust(github.com/alexpusch) I'm a visual and experimental learner. To truly understand something, I need to tinker with it and see it run with my own eyes. To truly understand async execution, I want to visualize it. What order are things happening in? Do concurrent futures affect each other? How do tasks and threads relate? Plotting network calls or file system operations is boring. Let's draw something.
Collatz's Ant(gbragafibra.github.io) This is a brief continuation of a previous post (Repo), which introduced such visualization for collatz sequences based on Langton’s Ant.
Audio Effects Applied to Text(hackaday.com) If you are a visual thinker, you might enjoy [AIHVHIA’s] recent video, which shows the effect of applying audio processing to text displayed on an oscilloscope.
10 points by sharjeelsayed 66 days ago | 0 comments
Making of the New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram(c82.net) Org charts tend to be a rather boring affair—with their lists of names and who reports to whom—but they didn’t start out that way. One of the first in American business, is a stunning portrait of a classic institution—the New York and Erie Railroad. Drawn in 1855 and only rediscovered in recent decades, this diagram captured my attention and I finally took the time to recreate it from scratch as a fun technical exercise.