Thanks for sharing! I especially like the "Understanding Hyperparameters" widget in the poloclub article. I built something similar that people might find helpful[1].
Hi! I'm the creator of the site. I'd just like to say thank you for posting this and for everyone that took the time to visit the site and/or my YouTube channel! Seeing people get value out of my content is what really makes the effort worthwhile.
It's a page about animations, so it's obviously going to be more media heavy than your average page. And the average random website is decently large anyway.
NYT is 11mb, wapo is 22, scrolling down once on reddit is like 40mb.
100 and something mb doesn't warrant pre-warning for a page specifically promising animations.
If the videos were mp4/webm, the whole page would be about 1/10th the size. Gif format was never intended for this type of use.
(and yes, thanks for pointing out several other horribly bloated websites, luckily browsing with JS disabled cuts them down to a few mb at most like they should be)
I was worried about my blog entries being too heavy. I kept them under 3MiB each.
Then I made one where I realised it really needed some rather big videos for illustration. It ended up being 43MiB and... After thinking about it for a while I decided that was fine. The few people interested in my work are unlikely to even notice the download.
Hi! I'm the creator of the site. Thanks for pointing this out! The number of animations has grown over time, and I didn't realize how big the size has gotten. Do you have an idea in mind for how you'd like the site to behave? E.g., static images that play when you click/tap on them? Sections that are hidden until you expand them? Other ideas? Thanks!
I think this might be less of an issue for HN browsing American nerds (who likely have great Internet connections) and more of an issue for people in developing countries or with poor network infrastructure.
I mean, you can stream netflix in rural Cambodia and not worry about data limits so I'm not so sure. Of course someone will be able to name somewhere this is a concern, but then you should be running browser extensions to manage media loading.
I love the cynicism, but if we’re looking at Median speed, us is still among the best - 11th for broadband, 26th for mobile. Punching below its weight class, for sure, but not exactly worse than developing countries. The only exceptions are Thailand, Hungary, and Romania IMO - props to them!!
I'd just like to politely point out that Hungary is absolutely miles away from being a developing country, as is Romania, and these days Thailand doesn't even count either for the most part.
Very fair! I guess I’d consider them somewhat “third world”, though obviously only in the “not western Europe, the commonwealth, the US, or east Asia”. Which isn’t exactly a great metric but it’s what a lot of Americans mean by that term lol
I might sound like an entitled westerner but I don't think I'd even open a web browser and just click around on the internet if I had a capped or billed internet connection. At least not with auto-downloading content like images and video enabled.
I keep hearing this argument, and still not sure which countries people are referring to. Maybe rural areas of US/Canada or other large countries? Just curious about the real affected number of people.
The short version (as I understand it) is that you use a neural network to weight pairs of inputs by their importance to each other. That lets you get rid of unimportant information while keeping what actually is important.
Hi! I'm the creator of the site. Good news: I'm currently working on animations and an explainer video on transformers and self-attention. The best way to be notified is probably to subscribe to my YouTube channel and hit the bell icon for notifications.
I've often wished the pandas documentation had animations like this. The groupby/split-apply-combine pipeline could probably be explained in one 10-sec clip.
Pretty sure these were animated in Blender. This feels pretty doable with Geometry Nodes, and the particular look of the blurred reflections in the floor trips my “it’s Blender” sense.
The author says in his videos images on web are wrong but then for the why says they are missing details mostly because they aren’t 3D. Isn’t that incomplete not wrong?
Hi there, I realize that this is dumbed down "without the numbers". Is there a dumbed down "without the numbers" prerequisite I should look at? Thanks!
The name of the site is misleading. A more accurate one might be "Animated CNN architecture diagrams". You need to know a bit about neural networks to make sense of these images. Watch the accompanying video, and compare with the images here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network
I can imagine kindergartens using legos to teach children "And this is , children, how the multi-head attention works". Matrix algebra as used in AI is very good fit for geometric visualizations. But in the end , it doesn't explain Why it works so good or so human-like. Valuable kindergarten lesson though
https://poloclub.github.io/cnn-explainer/
Another link to various visualization tools: https://github.com/ashishpatel26/Tools-to-Design-or-Visualiz...
Another one: https://playground.tensorflow.org/