shriracha

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How the Heck Do Synthesizers Work?(perthirtysix.com)
2 points by shriracha 1mo ago|0 comments
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How the Heck Does JPEG Work?(perthirtysix.com)
8 points by shriracha 1mo ago|0 comments
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by shriracha 5mo ago
Thank you! This has been on my list forever, finally added it today: https://perthirtysix.com/rss.xml
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by shriracha 5mo ago
hah good morning to you too HN (it's my piece and I'm not AI)
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by shriracha 5mo ago
My personal satisfaction and sense of craftsmanship is definitely lower now, even if my net output is higher. I think there is a world where I am only using AI to do the menial and repetitive stuff and leaving the more interesting cognitive
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by shriracha 1y ago
I sure hope not.
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by shriracha 1y ago
I appreciate the nuanced take here. LLMs have definitely made certain tasks easier, and therefor let me build ou features I wouldn't have had time to before (i.e. the theme picker example from the blog post)... but I am increasingly fi
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by shriracha 1y ago
Great read. Raymond Chen's blog is absolutely legendary.
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by shriracha 1y ago
https://drawbeats.com This is one of my long-standing passion projects, a simple web-based music sequencer built to have a very low barrier to entry.
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by shriracha 1y ago
Great great project, as usual by the pudding
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by shriracha 2y ago
Great read. The part about art needing to be created by a human particularly resonated. There is a fundamental difference between creativity and novelty. Novelty is empirically measurable and is something an AI can do. Creativity is an expr
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by shriracha 2y ago
If you really don't see any difference between "evoking emotion" and "emotional manipulation" then nobody will change your mind on this. And like I wrote about, you can have very precise charts that can be extraordi
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by shriracha 2y ago
No reason those need to be mutually exclusive. Posted this in another thread, but I don't see a good argument against this project ( https://www.dear-data.com ) being both data visualization and being an act of personal expre
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by shriracha 2y ago
Hah, so I actually went back and forth on that. The original studies around visual inference also included axis labels on the bar chart. The fact that you CAN label the axis on a bar chart that way is actually an argument people make not to
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by shriracha 2y ago
Author of the article here. Great points, thanks for reading and commenting. I think that data journalism is a great example of that "put it in someone's brain" idea. I also think there are all kinds of places we're see
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by shriracha 2y ago
All visualizations abstract and obscure data. There is no such thing as a fully neutral graph. Should everything just be a raw table?
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by shriracha 2y ago
A few thoughts there: 1. I generally agree with you on that goal, but there are a TON of ways to convey information in a digestible way without being misleading. Even if you follow good practices. 2. "Convey" is doing a lot of hea
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by shriracha 2y ago
You think the Climate Stripes are an example of "lying"?
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by shriracha 2y ago
Congratulations on the book drop! So I'm not sure if you read my piece or just wanted to drop a promotion, but I think you're misrepresenting my view here. I'm not advocating for "art for the sake of art" and I cert
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by shriracha 2y ago
I don't see art and design as mutually exclusive. I also don't think that data viz is exclusively about functionality. Take a project like this: https://www.dear-data.com/theproject ... this is clearly data visuali
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by shriracha 2y ago
Thank you! Yeah, I hear you on the framing. I don't have a formal education on data viz myself (I guess not many people do?), but I've gotten into the world over the last few years. A lot of the literature I've seen has come
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by shriracha 2y ago
Author of the article here! Yes you're completely right. I think they also have other underrated properties, like they fit neatly in a square which can be helpful for laying out a dashboard. And for some reason, in my experience, peopl
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by shriracha 2y ago
Weirdly poignant and beautiful, but also feels a bit wrong to watch.
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Visualizing Bluesky posts falling from the sky in real-time(fallingposts.com)
3 points by shriracha 2y ago|2 comments
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by shriracha 2y ago
Glad to see this regulated. This is a pretty cool study on dark patterns that make unsubscribing hard today: https://pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-patterns/
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Show HN: The Communal Plot – A Shared Coordinate Space to Express Opinions(perthirtysix.com)
2 points by shriracha 2y ago|0 comments
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by shriracha 2y ago
Hi! I made this tool. I saw it had way more traffic than usual and then realized it was from HN, very cool! Would love to hear any feedback. I've been super interested in how well-designed web apps and visualizations can communicate th
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by shriracha 2y ago
When I was a kid, I remember reading that the Earth's smoothness is comparable to a billiards ball. This was always hard for me to intuit, so I built out some visualizations to try to understand this better! Built using Three.js and Vu
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by shriracha 2y ago
I built a grid-based music sequencer for the web a while ago that lets people see projects other people made in a side panel. I very quickly realized I needed some manual content moderation because some people immediately started sharing pa
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by shriracha 2y ago
Hi, creator of DrawBeats here! I noticed a bit of extra traffic coming from HN today :) Thanks for sharing this! I'd love to hear any feedback or ideas on how to improve DrawBeats from the community.

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