I love the visualization, which gave me an idea: what if we numbered every "Looking at" step in the visualization? Then it's obvious just how many search steps it takes.
And then maybe even juxtapose that with a linear search example, which also numbers every step. I bet this would make it really click for some people. And for free the user can also play with how a linear search can sometimes be faster when they just want the first element!
As a bonus: allow the user to change the cell count so they can really feel just how each method scales!
OisinMoran•16m ago
Neat! Weirdly sending this article from my phone (Pixel 8) to my browser (Arc) via Pushbullet resulted in an incredibly strange bug that it loads this site instead:
Got very confused! I challenge the HN hivemind to figure out what's going on.
mutkach•6m ago
I remember Arc randomly rewriting my bookmarks using some kind of summarization model or something like that, it also sometimes changed the name of downloaded files reinterpreting their names. Maybe it is related somehow.
Well, I guess it was the first AI-first browser, hence all this bs. I uninstalled it months ago...
runemadsen•9m ago
We just did a whole visual identity around the quadtree concept. Take a scroll on this one! https://trace.systems/
wiz21c•8m ago
I think it is weird to have two cells divided downto their smallest size when my cursor clearly occupies only one of them, not two.
Waterluvian•24m ago
And then maybe even juxtapose that with a linear search example, which also numbers every step. I bet this would make it really click for some people. And for free the user can also play with how a linear search can sometimes be faster when they just want the first element!
As a bonus: allow the user to change the cell count so they can really feel just how each method scales!