Fun to see the Jerboa. I recently read a family history written by my uncle and he believes this is the source of our family name.
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#162I wish Neal would do behind the scenes, how he built this art. I wonder whether LLM assistants like Claude Code make such an interactive show more feasible. He previously did a game "Infinite Craft" which leveraged Llama models. However, I was only able to find an outdated blog from 2019.
I think you'd notice a pretty big difference in an LLM clone of this site. The art, music, and other small wouldn't be as consistent or hang together as nicely.
If I could download the LLM clone, and share it, I think I'd prefer it. This is just a website that could at any moment disappear, it isn't like a book.
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#163Why would th3 website switch from metric to usa units out of nowhere m
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#164Reminds me of https://scaleofuniverse.com . I think confining it to just living things removes the perspective of "Wow, we're really small compared to the rest of the universe".
There is another visualization from the same author, that starts at an astronaut and ends with the observable universe https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
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#165Sorry to say that my first reaction was that this is heresy. . . all this talk of science is a hoax. But then the music calmed me right down and I wended my way through, not understanding 99% of what I saw but in awe of nature and Neal's art nonetheless.
Did you just escape from a religious sect living inside an underwater cavern or something?
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#166The dynamic soundscape is delightful, as it subtly adds instruments and musical texture as you progress. And going back down the scale regresses it to simple again. Smoothly done. It reminded me of Operation Neptune (1991): each level starts with just one channel, probably percussion, and as you progress through the rooms it adds and removes more channels or sometimes switches to a different section of music. It is u…
This is something you do when scoring a game too, wonder if the author ever worked on game programming.
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#167where is Solaris?
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#168(Uninsightful comment but I’m gonna put it here anyway)
The US spelling of haemoglobin is all kinds of wrong.
Love the site. Would love some algae in there though. Perhaps a desmid or diatom?
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#169Always a joy to see neal.fun on the HN front page.
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#170>Music & SFX by Aleix Ramon
>Cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga
Got a link to the music?