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The care for detail here is overwhelming. Even if you care nothing at all about the content, it's a strong example of what can be achieved by striving for perfe
by tel 16y ago
The care for detail here is overwhelming. Even if you care nothing at all about the content, it's a strong example of what can be achieved by striving for perfection.
I also find it interesting they turned to an algorithm similar to Knuth's TeX algorithm. "Minimizing ugliness" is a pretty potent computational metaphor for how detail oriented design work works, it seems.
- alextp 16y agoIt goes further than that, and most modern machine learning methods are fundamentally defined in a "minimizing ugliness" framework.
- tel 16y agoWell, yeah, but the metaphor is what I think is interesting. It's technically nothing more than shifting from a deterministic to a statistical model, but the idea of applying statistical algorithms to many aspects where computers need to emulate human design is a powerful heuristic.