One frame per second of Dracula (1931), sorted from dark to light. https://www.flickr.com/photos/31382652@N00/54485876764/in/dateposted-public/
Full-sized version here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/31382652@N00/54485876764/sizes/o/
Linked is a super useful directory of many or most of the classic foundational Computer Science algorithms. No, there was no PID or Kalman Filter but those are a bit specialized. https://salas.com/2025/03/22/visual-focused-algorithms-cheat-sheet/#algorithms #computerscience #visual #explainer #computer-vision #searching #sorting #maps
"Last year, in a study that was presented at the Foundations of Computer Science conference in Chicago, a team of seven researchers described a way to organize items that comes tantalizingly close to the theoretical ideal. The new approach combines a little knowledge of the bookshelf’s past contents with the surprising power of randomness."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-almost-reaches-perfection-20250124/
A music album contains both a CD and a video DVD.
Where do you sort it on your bookshelf?
Y'know,
I really miss an algorithm for my feed.
People tend to go on barricades when they hear this. But I would wager they are burnt from "commercial" application of such.
I see too many posts I really don't car eabout, like knottin' a sweater. And the tech posts I never see as the current "algorithm" is "show all post by date, newest on top".
A self-hosted, under your control configured algorithm can be benevolent.
As Mastodon is right now, It is borderlining useless. Interessting (to me) posts need to happen in that moment I am on the site. An hour later (or less) and they are gone.
And I do not have time to keep reading continuously.
Prepping for a project. Swooning because: handling vintage fabric and color sorting 
Which of these folder names should come first when sorted in ascending order?
And remember kids: Sorting without carefully choosing the algorithm is to the user just a randomness with poo-glitter over it.
The new `compareLex()` comparator in https://thi.ng/compare is another useful addition included in recent #ThingUmbrella updates (last week). It's intended for short tag-like strings containing compounds of words and numbers (e.g. "2d" or "base36"). It splits strings at the first digit/non-digit boundary and if both inputs (in terms of comparison) happen to contain such a boundary, compares each of these chunks lexicographically (using numeric ordering if both sides are numeric).
The attached short code example shows the difference to the (almost pointless, in this case) JS native sort logic...
(Ps. You can also see it in action in the sorted tag list of the previously linked thi.ng tag browser...)
(Pps. Updated code snippet, earlier copy/paste error...)
![TypeScript source code snippet showing the difference between JS native sorting and the `compareLex()` ordering of a short string array:
import { compareLex } from "@thi.ng/compare";
const src = ["2d", "16bit", "base36", "8bit", "1d", "base8"];
console.log("native", [...src].sort());
// [ "16bit", "1d", "2d", "8bit", "base36", "base8" ]
console.log("compareLex", [...src].sort(compareLex));
// [ "1d", "2d", "8bit", "16bit", "base8", "base36" ]](https://mastothing.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/956/613/011/757/686/original/c25b1c5ebe754f74.png "TypeScript source code snippet showing the difference between JS native sorting and the `compareLex()` ordering of a short string array:
import { compareLex } from \"@thi.ng/compare\";
const src = [\"2d\", \"16bit\", \"base36\", \"8bit\", \"1d\", \"base8\"];
console.log(\"native\", [...src].sort());
// [ \"16bit\", \"1d\", \"2d\", \"8bit\", \"base36\", \"base8\" ]
console.log(\"compareLex\", [...src].sort(compareLex));
// [ \"1d\", \"2d\", \"8bit\", \"16bit\", \"base8\", \"base36\" ]")
What is the erge to just move around my whole Studio so that I lay from a different angle.
Guess I have time... Might just have to.
For my #school teacher I once created an application to #visualize #sorting #algorithms.
Over the last days I added a new feature to improve the visualization and also completely rewrote it to #vue3 and #vite
Are you using Mastodon lists?
In Twitter, I had mastered the lists.
here, I'm a little bit late, I had been off my PC for 6 months and I don't do well on mobile devices.
I've been setting up my NEWS, FRIENDS, CHAT MOST, those type of lists, making it easier to find people.
#Mastodon #Lists #Sorting #Setup #Cats #Conversation #News #Humour etc
audiovisual representation of qsort vs merge sort!
courtesy of sort_everything176 on TikTok
I know the creator of these videos! They are great! Very hypnotic #sorting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5dCRHAgb0
Its ubiquity, not to mention the terrible problems with pollution, has devalued how we see plastic. But it's a precious resource. And Precious Plastic are doing important work to help recycle plastic by type.
#GoodNews #Plastic #Wales #Recycling #Sorting #Remaking #Disability #Prosthetics #Structures
New study, impressive result: "Here we show how #AI can go beyond the current state of the art [in #sorting efficiency] by discovering hitherto unknown routines…We formulated the task of finding a better sorting routine as a single-player game. We then trained a new deep reinforcement learning agent, AlphaDev, to play this game. AlphaDev discovered small sorting algorithms from scratch that outperformed previously known human benchmarks."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9
It is now 41 days until the #summersolstice - warm, no wind, but gratefully cloudy
So far I’ve received 1 box of kitchen stuff, sorted all #paint & am now waiting for groceries, including #frozenfood that has to be taken care of immediately
#sarasspringcount23
#sorting
Do you sort your music by ARTIST, TITLE, or TRACK?
I used to make an MP3 Data CD for driving in my car. Custom made, maximum songs, usually enough for a season. Now I do it on my phone.
I don't like default 'ARTIST' list.
4 songs by Bing Crosby then Bob Marley?
I sort my MP3s by year; random songs chosen from each decade.
I start playing at whatever year I like.
I rename each track to appear as YEAR, SONG, Artist
I have a program that renames them
#MP3 #Music #Sorting #Playlist
