I see specific classes on the page that specify a one degree angle, so it seems to be intentional. I would guess it's to call your attention to the cells.
The one degree angle, while a little unusual, isn't what blows my mind. It's the disappearance after a small scroll. That's enough to make you think you were imagining things, might need to go to the eye doctor, etc...
The first real movies made 100 years ago looked like something someone today could put together in their garage on a shoestring budget. AI-generated movies have existed for just two years, and are only going to get better. This is bleeding edge research, and I haven't seen any sign yet of AI models hitting a quality ceiling.
His book "The Planiverse" was one of the first books I read as a kid that really made me think. I was fascinated by his detailed descriptions of a 2D universe and its implications for how that would affect biology, society, and everything else.
+1 I LOVED it. Huge, huge, influential book in my thinking when I read it at 11 or 12. It led to interest in world simulations, sociology and how it relates to physical structures and limits, physics simulations, and so much more.
One of my favourites. I had a nice wide copy as a kid and recently bought a new one for my kid. Was disappointed in the small blurry reproduction of the diagrams. So get a used copy!
My desktop is a 2013 custom build, and is still going strong with all of its original parts. My wife's previous computer was a near identical build from 2012 and also lasted nine years.
I dropped off at about 70%. For me, it was a few things
1) Too much intro material - The explanation of what a root is was too long. By the time I got to the start of the derivation, my attention span was already running out, due to:
2) Too much tedious algebra - I felt annoyed that I needed to do a bunch of basic arithmetic to advance to the next section.
3) Complicated derivation - Like another commenter mentioned, I think the completing the square method would have been shorter and easier than this method.
Agreed. I once worked for a company that built custom e-commerce sites. One of our clients decided to bring development in-house, and wanted the codebase for their site. I had to go through every source file line by line to remove all of the expletives the core team had put in the comments before handing over the code.
