What an extremely talented individual you are. Thanks for sharing your work and your process in the YouTube videos.
As someone who comes from a web dev background and who's completely unfamiliar with developing large projects in C, I'm curious about your setup. What does it look like? In terms of what kind of IDE, OS, interesting tooling, etc. you use on a regular basis to work on this.
Also, I've seen the first commit goes back to Oct 2017. Did you work on this full time during the whole time / how many full-time months you would say you devoted to this project? Also, if I may ask – what do you do for a living?
I was talking with a friend the other day [1] and he shared this idea, I think it comes from a Veritasium video [2], that if you took 1.000 random people and ranked them by their overall success, the top ones would almost always be extremely lucky (i.e.: you get to the top by being lucky, not by hard work alone)
Although the math behind it is extremely simple (just a weighted sum), as well as the code [3], I think the idea that hard work alone doesn't guarantee success is a powerful one. Plus, I think the app is fun to play with.
Hope this thought experiment helps reflect about the whole idea of randomness in life, and maybe help spark a few interesting conversations with friends! It'd be great to hear your feedback.
Thank you! :) I've read some recent research and looks like this is actually measured: only 0.001% of all internet users start reading them (and even a smaller amount of people likely finish reading them). On top of it, if you had to read all the privacy policies you accepted only on the past 5 years alone, you would have to use 3.040 hours of non-stop reading. Crazy. Love your privacy-oriented username btw! ;)
This was actually one of the ideas to evolve the project! Another one is making an app that protects your digital privacy from these threats, kinda like an antivirus but for privacy threats instead of viruses (https://useguard.com/blog/future/) Would love to hear feedback on what should this project become next :)
This just hit the frontpage so the server might be a bit overloaded, I'm sorry. Trying to resize resources right now. Thanks for the heads up, in the long term (ideally) noise shouldn't be a huge problem in a sufficiently large dataset (or at least I'm already expecting some noise haha)
As someone who comes from a web dev background and who's completely unfamiliar with developing large projects in C, I'm curious about your setup. What does it look like? In terms of what kind of IDE, OS, interesting tooling, etc. you use on a regular basis to work on this.
Also, I've seen the first commit goes back to Oct 2017. Did you work on this full time during the whole time / how many full-time months you would say you devoted to this project? Also, if I may ask – what do you do for a living?
Thanks again and congrats on the project!