samwho

lol, you scoundrel

This is correct, they were independent works. It’s spoken about in “The Annotated Turing” by Charles Petzold.

That’s true, there’s no explicit definition of what an algorithm is. I may revisit this. Thank you for the feedback.

I love it. I love it so much.

I’m not sure I understand. I do explain what can be computed, don’t I?

> Something is said to be "computable" if there exists an algorithm that can get from the given input to the expected output. For example, adding together 2 integers is computable.

I could probably have dug into some of the restrictions, like how it has to be a finite number of steps.

When I was working on this post I found the way that Turing defined “computable numbers” I bit unsatisfying as well.

What would you suggest I do to deliver on this?

I watched a fun talk in preparation for this post on unlimited register machines that you might enjoy: https://youtu.be/7Q-UwjgZ0q4?si=abEV1JKd9kuI8w8z

Thank you <3

I’m the author of this post! <3

Happy to answer any questions you might have, and love to hear feedback good and bad.

Can confirm. Received the first email here from Justin and it worked on me.

PixiJS and GSAP :)

You can see my code here: https://github.com/samwho/visualisations

Sorry about the perf problems! This is definitely my heaviest post. What device did you read on?

Oh loads, queueing has been around forever and there's an enormous amount of material on the topic. This post barely scratches the surface. One specific omission was an AQM strategy called "CoDel", which I'm expecting people to pick me up on.

Web components are just one method of componentising the visualisations. I'm steering clear of React/Vue/whatever other framework because I want these posts to still be relevant in 10 years. I'm not confident any existing frontend framework will be around 10 years from now, so decided to stick to web standards.

I'm the author of this post, happy to answer any questions :)

Thank you <3

Absolutely awesome.

This is superb. Really great work!

No hate taken. The art is not the artist, etc. :)

I'm in the middle of writing up a self-reflective post about this and I just wrote the following:

"Ultimately, the way I'm presenting the data is egregious and unnecessary. I can see why people are annoyed about it. The extra visuals and interactions get in the way of what's being shown, they don't enhance it. Tapping around feels fun to me, but it isn't helping people understand. This experiment prioritised form way more than it prioritised function."

We've come to some of the same conclusions, though you in more detail than me. The idea about clicks not being idempotent wasn't something I ever noticed, but now you've said it I can't not.

If you're willing, I'd love to connect with you 1:1 and talk a bit more about this. My contact details are on my homepage.

I did try a version with the text outside of the bars but struggled to make it work in a way I was happy with.

Do you have any other feedback? What is it specifically about the UX that you find clumsy? I'm still quite new to this sort of thing and do want to improve.

I added the word "latency" into the title of the page. Sorry for the confusion.

You should be able to scroll horizontally, but not vertically. Is working for me in mobile Safari.

It was a small experiment with some data I found interesting, I didn't expect it to get around as much as it has. I'm trying to get better at aspects of the web I'm not very good at.

It has given me lots to think about and learn from.

Do you have any specific feedback about why it's unusable? I'd like to get better at this.

Thank you

Ahh yes, that makes sense. Thanks for helping me understand that, definitely reduces the utility of the visualisation.

If you click through to the Colin Scott version I link to you more or less get what you’re looking for.

Thank you!

I hadn’t, but it would be very easy to add.

Man, I had such high hopes for Stadia. I was an SRE at Google when it was being built and knew some of the traffic folks working on the networking parts of it. Some of the absolute best people. Such a shame.

I’d never have considered adding WiFi to the controller to _reduce_ latency, that’s absolutely wild. Thanks for sharing!

All really great feedback, thank you <3

Sorry, want to dig in a little bit here to help me improve for next time. I really appreciate your replies.

When you say it’s impossible to see times and text labels at the same time, are you aware you can move each bar to any height on the screen? They move to the height of the cursor when you click. It’s extremely unobvious, I know, I’m sorry.