Related:<p>I find the simulation and visualization of the same topic (albeit for US only) by DataFlow much more engaging and comprehensible. The project is based on data of a US survey.<p><a href="https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans/" rel="nofollow">https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-amer...</a>
The changelog indicates:<p>> * <i>Fixed "Intimacy" count to always be an even number.</i><p>The FTX polycule would like a word…<p>Beautiful work!
Compared to my parents, I spent 20x the time parenting (the new normal) and I'm not sure these stats reflect that.<p>Our global birthrate is a unconcerning 2.3 and worldwide restroom use continues apace.<p>Sex is edging out smoking but not by much.
Why do the estimated births/deaths per second counters have so much flicker? Surely you don't actually believe that the expected number of births/deaths per second fluctuates at 1dp precision multiple times per second?
I'm surprised at the surface difference between birth and death rate because we're told the aggregate rate of increase is declining. The difference between the two suggests birth outruns death by 2:1 which feels steep for something which will max out in 2050.<p>I realise sub-saharan Africa continues to be high birthrate and is a huge component of world population, but the trend of increased economic activity to lower birth rate is really high worldwide, and most western economies in the OECD would be in decline, were it not for migration.
Cool idea but for the actual results I have no confidence in it because it has grounding shown like pop sizes, locations / timezones etc, it's just vibe coded with stuff like this: "// Approx 7.68 hours - fundamental physiological need.", "label: 'Nutrition', // User's concise label". I don't see any real population dynamics.
There is something sobering and humbling at “seeing” 2 people die every second.<p>To realize that entire lifetimes of memory and experiences are disappearing so quickly.<p>Though I’ve probably seen that stat before, the site does a good job of making it feel “live” with the updating population count and live stats on everything else.
Seeing the population still increase, this must be completely attributed to Africa: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate</a>
Wonderful. I always found the idea of billions of people particularly famous people doing something (anything) simultaneously as me, unbelievable for some reason. This somehow brings this issue front and center on a global scale. Well done.
>The initial concept was explored with the help of AI (specifically, Gemini), iterating through prompts to develop the core logic for a dynamic simulation. The goal was to create something engaging, all within a single HTML file – a testament to what can be achieved with focused iteration and modern web technologies.<p><a href="https://humans.maxcomperatore.com/why.html" rel="nofollow">https://humans.maxcomperatore.com/why.html</a>
Just the other day, walking through a sleepy country town (Hawks Nest, NSW, AU), I was explaining to my partner how I'd love to have an AR overlay of the town that told me, statistically, what each person in each house was doing.<p>Ideally it'd consider an estimate of the house's value and use vision to assess the real-time appearance of the property to further hone its model.<p>If you could do that next, please. Oh and buy me a Vision Pro. Cheers.
Some stats I'd like to see added:<p>* number of people in the air (Grok estimates 1.2 to 1.8 million, or 0.015% – 0.022%), but flightradar24.com probably has a better estimate.<p>* number of people in space (13 according to whoisinspace.com, so 0.00000016%)<p>* number of people at sea (?)
Could easily extend the idea to zoom in on the map, constraining to various region sizes... The information gets a little "washed out" when you combine all the timezones into one blob.
6 million intimate? Wonder how much this tracks stats by country, so as day/night moves along, can see bigger/lesser swings in the trend.<p>Or is it just a flat ratio to population.
Is it plausible that the order of magnitude of those going to the restroom and those being intimate would be the same?<p>My life is very different if so!
Great execution. Interesting to think about the peaks and troughs of global activity.<p>The Sleep numbers make a big claim: Right after Europe and West Africa have woken up (i.e. now) it says only 350 million people (4.25%) are sleeping. It's 01:08 in Anchorage and 06:08 in Recife. Over 1 billion people live in the Americas between these two time zones. Seems implausible that only a third of them are sleeping?