MikeSchurman

Another tangent, I went on a trip to LA. The drive to airport was noisy, airport was noisy, airplane was noisy, city was noisy, air conditioner in room was noisy. This went on for the whole week. I didn't really notice.

But when I got dropped off at my car after the flight home, to get in my car it was late at night in a small town. And I noticed it. The silence. I stood there, beside my car keys in hand for a good 5 minutes, just taking it in.

I had no idea how noisy it had been for the past week until then.

Same! I did this in unity3d, but also want to add this to my remote tool. Where can I find the motivation? :)

This is also a very handy idea...

I love this. Probably because I've been thinking of similar ideas for what seems like the last decade, I just have coders block when it comes to actually implementing it. Seeing it (well something like it) actually implemented makes me happy.

My use-case would be a "real-time" debug tool of sorts, that would allow the viewing of trees as they have, but also the modification of them, and the values at the nodes (think the hierarchy+inspector of unity3d, but a remote tool).

Anyway this post is food for thought and I'm going to read more about how it was done. I like the API they've created for sending views, really interesting.

I believe pilot study here means: small-scale preliminary study, not vehicle pilots.

I don't remember that happening, I think I wasn't watching the news much during that period in my life. But I did hear about it in past year after reading Quinn's books and following some mental threads afterwards. Wild that you had conversations with him!

Unfortunate people take ideas so far... we are so sure we are right.

Ishmael or My Ishmael touches on this subject. Thank you for reminding me.

I forget exactly, but, the basic idea is primitive people didn't have all these laws about what to do. They expected you to behave, and if you did not, the tribe did not necessarily punish you, they taught you and made it right somehow (justice).

Any MY description does not give this idea justice, so I need to go back and find the reference in the books.

Where did you read this? (I'd like to know more)

I've used this technique quite a bit in the past, but often not enough. I work in games so a lot of problems are actual visual 2d or 3d problems. Things like: finding the closest valid object I can target at my given heading. Simple enough, but as things get complicated it's often the simple things that trip you up, and visualizations can often make the problem obvious.

That p5 editor looks nice for this sort of thing. It's important to be able to get the visualizations in quickly, otherwise you risk wasting time.

A tool I've dreamed up, that I never seem to have time to implement, is to send debug information to some form of database, and then being able to query and render that data as you like (from another client). To see bar/line charts of data, spatial visuals, more abstract graphs like in your examples, timeline scrubbers, etc... maybe some day I'll get around to making it.

Anyway, thanks for your comment. I'm interested in this kind of thing.

From the about: "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. "

I personally find it hard to put into words, but the old internet and old search engines had this feel to them that you never knew what you were going to get. Each site looked different. Each site had it's own philosophy of content and design. Everybody was winging it. It just felt more personal and interesting. At the risk of hyperbole, now it seems search engines give back mostly SEO blogspam that all looks the same.

Marginalia feels more like the former internet.

pandia has a nice ring to it, wikipedia:

In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia or Pandeia was a daughter of Zeus and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon.

Looks useful.

Suggestion: as a non-paying user I don't immediately know what the chat tab does. You can find out under the pricing tab but it's not obvious where to find this information. Might be good to say what it does on the chat tab if you're not a paid user.