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  • It's at the point I can tell, not only was AI used for this (cool, not a big deal, I use it too!) But I can tell Gemini was used here.

    How can I tell? Cuz the last thing it designed for me used the exact same fonts, color tones, border sizes and spacing for buttons.

    Maybe Gemini needs a higher default temperature.

    Anyways, cool data gathered here tho! Thanks for sharing

    by lacoolj
  • The article mentions a dataset of names given to people in the USA. This is a fun name explorer WASM based on that data. 811 people in the USA have named their baby 'Diesel': https://docs.malloydata.dev/malloyyo-babynames/name_explorer...
    by mrtimo
  • How is there not one boat named "Sunk Cost"...
    by olibaw
  • I've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name
    by BigTuna
  • The "Boat ownership by income" is interesting, although easy to misread at a glance.

    7% of boat owners earning under $25k is of course very different from 7% of people earning under $25k owning a boat.

    I'd love to see an actual chart of boat ownership at income levels, it would read quite differently I'm sure.

    by xnorswap
  • This reminds me of a girl I knew in college who worked as a contracter for a book publisher.

    I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted were dairies of their sailing. Like, "we sailed to this island and there was bad weather then we sailed to this other island".

    Apparently they'd get a manuscript like this once a week or something. Not sure what the market is like for books like that since I don't think I've ever seen one in a book store.

    by CSMastermind
  • My boat's called Floating Point :)
    by lewispb
  • I can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including "Freedom", of which however only one is called just "Freedom". That doesn't really add up?!

    Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!

    by rob74

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