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Thank you! This is why I read the comments on HN. I was thinking while reading that I'd like to find some good resources to explore complexity theory in more depth, this looks great.

Side note: 14 people created something of value and distribute it for free, and still many of the comments here are just complaints about auto-scroll, websites, and JS. Pretty sad to see.

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Couldn’t agree more. I often read some top comments even before checking an article just to get a quick read on whether something is likely e.g. clickbaity. Reading the comments it seemed like there was some consensus that this was a page with mostly information that would be better presented in a flat form like a pdf rather than an interactive website... but it’s actually a super fun collection of interactive visualizations for some of the classic complexity examples, and it worked perfectly for me except for a kind of ostentatious fade-from-white effect on page load.

Ah I see. I was on mobile and didn't get the left/right swooshing, but do on desktop. I also find the left/right swooshing from the outside pretty clunky and unnecessary. But the content is really nice, and I personally appreciate a bit of fun in experimenting with content presentation. Esp. given the topic.

> 14 people created something of value and distribute it for free, and still many of the comments here are just complaints about auto-scroll, websites, and JS.

Or, to put it another way, 14 people created fantastic material with all sorts of genuinely wonderful animations, then put links to them on a page that was so annoying that potential readers clicked away before finding the useful and intriguing stuff that had been shared so freely. Pretty sad to see.

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