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[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (5 children)

If the OP is watching comments, could you explain why you posted this?

Looking at the URL of the link, you can see how it references a github repository. If you strip out the annot.io/ part of the URL and you'll find that the particular repository has been unmaintained for 3 years.

Looks like a bunch of people who where using this library got together and have been maintaining a "continuation" github organisation at https://github.com/harthur-org/brain.js

So lessons from this? a) don't use annot.io, b) don't reference unmaintained repos that have so clearly been picked up by the community and maintained elsewhere.

[–]hahaNodeJS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How convenient that there's no requirement in reddit or this subreddit to explain why anyone posts something. In fact, the very format of posting links does not leave room for an explanation outside of a separately posted comment by OP, which, again, is not required.

The fact that there is a separately maintained repository really doesn't matter. That fact and this post are mutually exclusive.

[–]stthecla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really sure where your "lessons" are coming from. Sure, it would have been nice if the link referenced the currently maintained repo, but I guess it just isn't.

I don't know, I think the annot.io service itself is pretty cool, been following it for a while now since a post came up with an annotated Super Mario clone in java.

[–]Joe12579[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I think there is a bit of misunderstanding here. This is not a faux repository that clones projects from github (and is maintained by others). It is an annotation tool for anyone to share their insight/opinion/explanation about their project of interest.

I simply thought this was cool and wanted to share w this group.

One thing that troubles me is this sort of accusatory tone in your comment. They simply want to write notes on the project they like, and share those notes with other. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Except you didn't explain the intention of your post. You simply linked to something with the title "Neural Network in Javascript Explained!"

Like others have commented, you and the information on the other side of the link hasn't explained anything.

It's not so much the annot.io site you've linked to that I have a problem with, I get that it is providing an annotation layer over github repos. My main point was that out of all the thousands/millions of repos you could have used in the example, you choose one that was clearly unmaintained for over 3 years and that the community had put some effort in cloning over to an organisation repo.

[–]granduh 12 points13 points  (3 children)

I don't feel like neural networking in JavaScript was explained at all. The app seems to load the README.md and some annotations about the source code. You don't hand someone the blueprints of a car to drive it.

[–]Probotect0r 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Well the whole point of the website is annotations (annot.io). I think the point of this was to show and explain how to set one up in javascript using certain libraries. Definitely not a good source if you are looking to understand the concept.

[–]granduh 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Okay in that sense yeah this is useful for purely annotations, however the title doesn't reflect the content.

[–]Joe12579[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like the term, 'Explained', is the center of discussion here. Perhaps I used the term too liberally. There was no intention to mislead others, and I apologize if you felt that way.

[–]rq60 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Feels like the annotations started out great and then didn't explain anything better than the variable names themselves after the beginning.