Imagine you have to classify every single job title in the world into 10 categories, how would you go about it? This is a fairly hard problem to solve. However, the European Union has actually taken it on. They named … Read more
This page contains an index and descriptions for the animated graphical scores I’ve made for J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue. The animations are based on recordings by these performers (and myself) … I bought a score of Bach’s … Read more
In 1986, Eugene Myers published An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations, which unified the problems of finding the longest common subsequence of two sequences (the LCS of “driftwood” and “artwork” is “two”) and finding the shortest edit script for … Read more
Take a look at this: This is a triangulation of a set of random points, such that all the points are connected to one another, all of the faces are triangles, and the edges include the convex hull of the … Read more
Visualizing Algorithms June 26, 2014 Mike Bostock The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. —Donald Norman Algorithms are a fascinating use case for visualization. To visualize … Read more
Visualizing Elliptic Curve Cryptography Every TLS 1.3 session starts with a key exchange made via an elliptic curve. The most popular curve is Curve25519, and the exchange involves adding a “base point” P to itself over and over again: Curve25519 … Read more
Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)? 36 points by lovehatesoft 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 24 comments I learned about UML in a course, but have never used it or … Read more
One of the easiest ways to understand probabilities is to think of them in terms of Venn Diagrams. You basically have a Universe with all the possible outcomes (of an experiment for instance), and you are interested in some subset … Read more
Visualizing Observed Deaths This is a visualization, using polar coordinates, of the total observed deaths for every week using data published by CDC . Using this kind of graph one can more easily see how changes year-to-year in total observed … Read more
Imagine this: you’re looking at a new codebase, and you want to find the code for a specific function. For example, in the create-react-app codebase, How quickly can you find a test for react-dev-utils? You found one! Try again facebook/create-react-app … Read more