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Seems the markdown wasn't rendered to html, here's a link to the generated image https://johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/primes_umap_1e6_4k.png

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The site uses JavaScript to render the Markdown to HTML client-side. Reminds me of when I thought XML with client-side XSLT for rendering was a good idea, lol.

I enjoyed the plain markdown page though, very readable.

I see, I've set my browser to block third party javascript, on inspection, it seems the author has decided to download the markdown render script from what looks to be an analytics firm. (https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/latest/markdeep.min.js)

Interesting choice

markdeep is an extension of markdown, see https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ for details

Aha! I mistyped the domain when exploring and got to this site https://www.causal-effects.com/

The site you linked does look much friendlier (still.. self host your js when you can!)

Here's a copy that works without JS:

https://gist.github.com/jwilk/37e329126f0919b8ddf4066e61c188...

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