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I was disappointed to see it end (at 10000). :(
I capped it at 10000 to prevent someone from accidentally leaving it on fast-forward and wedging their browser. Try this if you want to go farther: http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization...
Feature request: audio track speaking the numbers as they appear
UPDATE: 'Popcorn', the electronic pop instrumental, might do too, with the counting synched to the beat
That appears to work like a denial of service attack on my brain - I was sitting here quite hypnotized until a colleague asked me what on earth I was doing.
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The porn analogy: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/04/porn-analogy.html
Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. > Pornography is fake. True, but that's not why the analogy is used. Pornography is a visual media that conveys some of the pleasure of an act without the viewer actually going through the effort of doing it. > Pornography's aim is to sexually excite the viewer. Are geeks sexually excited by the eBay data?… > pleasure comes from many things that are non-se…
Be aware that the person youre replying to is the person who wrote the article.
I do think you're right though, and I'd be interested to hear jgc's response.
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Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. > Pornography is fake. True, but that's not why the analogy is used. Pornography is a visual media that conveys some of the pleasure of an act without the viewer actually going through the effort of doing it. > Pornography's aim is to sexually excite the viewer. Are geeks sexually excited by the eBay data?… > pleasure comes from many things that are non-se…
>Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. Be aware that the person youre replying to is the person who wrote the article. I do think you're right though, and I'd be interested to hear jgc's response.
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>Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. Be aware that the person youre replying to is the person who wrote the article. I do think you're right though, and I'd be interested to hear jgc's response.
It wasn't my intention when writing it to be disingenuous, but I do think there's validity in his/her criticism of the article. Not my finest blog post.
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I capped it at 10000 to prevent someone from accidentally leaving it on fast-forward and wedging their browser. Try this if you want to go farther: http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization...
Brilliant! Feature request: audio track speaking the numbers as they appear UPDATE: 'Popcorn', the electronic pop instrumental, might do too, with the counting synched to the beat
Or perhaps Boards Of Canada's Aquarius, I wonder what the factorization of sixty-ten looks like :)
I also like how you can enable turbo by pressing the fast-forward button several times...
IE 250 = (5 x 5) x (2 x 2 x 2) 250 = 2^3 x 5^2
You could always display both