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I am a bit disappointed that the article doesn't explain what the introductory illustration about Sack's spiral has to do with any of this.
by riidom 2y ago
I am a bit disappointed that the article doesn't explain what the introductory illustration about Sack's spiral has to do with any of this.
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- alkyon 2y agoSack's spiral is a variant of Ulam's spiral, he discovered in 1963 using MANIAC II. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
- munificent 2y agoThe somewhat cynical but honest answer is that all articles need some kind of pretty image at the top because when you share a link on any social media platform, the platform looks for an image to use as a thumbnail. If it doesn't find one, it gets posted as just a plain link and almost no one clicks it. This is why Medium requires an image on every post, why every programming blog out there puts random pictures of laptops and coffee cups at the top of their articles, why Unsplash is so popular, and now why AI-generated images at the top of posts are so common. It's dumb.
- ghaff 2y agoIt's dumb but it's also why there's so much use of AI generated images as you say. I'd add that a lot of blog templates essentially require them and the random individual isn'y going to pay for stock imagery.