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Post by jackphilson »

PostOnce wrote: post #79

This man needs a genius grant, and this is about the 6th time I've thought this. Any one of these pages would be a feat, an achievement to be proud of, but as a collection, it forms one of the greatest educational resources of its type that I have known. These things can give you more intuition about a subject in 45 minutes than a textbook might be able to in 3 months, because it's interesting and not dry. I wish I h…

Now imagine if all education were like this.

What if there was a market that incentivized the creation of top-quality educational content like this? Create it for one topic, usable forever.

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#162

Post by navi0 »

I hope this gets extended into a class about radio frequency communication. Everything here applies to all the wireless gadgets ubiquitous in our modern society, yet many haven’t the foggiest idea how antennas, carrier waves, and modulation combine to beam the Internet everywhere.

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Post by d11z »

navi0 wrote: post #162

I hope this gets extended into a class about radio frequency communication. Everything here applies to all the wireless gadgets ubiquitous in our modern society, yet many haven’t the foggiest idea how antennas, carrier waves, and modulation combine to beam the Internet everywhere.

If anyone who is capable is reading this:

What we (the unmanicured masses) crave most is a clear blueprint for reconstructing the new Internet once our consumerism-based, debt-aggregation system inevitably comes to a screeching halt, complete with a spectacularly bloody and sparkling implosion.

I lack the proper academic terminology to even understand the field enough to discern what exactly it is that I don’t know that I don’t know, and personally my time “wasting time learning things on my own for seemingly no reason other than wanting to know” has recently been cut short, and I am left aching for someone to emerge from this chaos and hopefully be receptive to these messages/instructions/explanations before they are pulled from beneath us.

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Post by forrestthewoods »

Does anyone know what tools are used to make the visualizations? They're silky smooth and work just as well on mobile as desktop. The elements are just a element so I'm not sure how they're populated.

Edit: Oh, I think the answer is 6493 lines of artisanally hand-crafted javascript + WebGl. Beautiful.

https://ciechanow.ski/js/sound.js

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#165

Post by MezzoDelCammin »

armchairhacker wrote: post #63
sgraaf wrote: post #52

Bartosz' blog posts are in a league of their own. They way he is able to explain complex subjects by starting from first principles, gently adding more and more layers, with beautiful, custom-made figures and animations is truly, literally, awesome. I strongly recommend supporting the author via his Patreon if you enjoy his blog posts.

The article on mechanical watches had so much depth and such good explanations I thought he was a mechanical watch engineer or enthusiast who happened to also have web design, 3d animation, and writing skills

Who says he isn't? We all have our strange hobbies that we pick (and sometimes discard/change) throughout life

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Post by ivanche »

It even has a different explanation text how to use keyboard (2nd paragraph), depending on whether you open a site from a desktop or mobile! Impressive!

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Post by unsafecast »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #151
alberth wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the HN crowd who like to roll with JS turned off, you’re missing out on great interactive illustrations.

It's pretty much the ideal for how JS should be used.

It also manages to make interactive animations faster than reading news at this point.

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Post by hoseja »

behnamoh wrote: post #110
PostOnce wrote: post #79

This man needs a genius grant, and this is about the 6th time I've thought this. Any one of these pages would be a feat, an achievement to be proud of, but as a collection, it forms one of the greatest educational resources of its type that I have known. These things can give you more intuition about a subject in 45 minutes than a textbook might be able to in 3 months, because it's interesting and not dry. I wish I h…

> This man needs a genius grant, and this is about the 6th time I've thought this. He says this is his weekend hobby. I really wish he could work on these things full-time. The world needs more people like him.

I don't. The quality can only get worse as it changes from hobby to a job. Give him money, yes; but don't demand increase in publishing or any commitment.
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