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Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

32 pointsby 1d agojackschaedler.github.io
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23h agoHN ↗

In the Figure 1, I expect the smallest circle to draw the figure.

4h agoHN ↗

Imagine a civilization that discovers complex numbers before naturals, with naturals showing up to count the turns.

If hexagons can claim to be bestagons complex numbers have a legit claim at best numbers.

3h agoHN ↗

A huge amount of math unlocked the minute mathematicians started taking complex numbers seriously. Ideally they would be an earlier discovery, I agree!

2h agoHN ↗

looks like we both created educational materials about the same topics - except yours clearly is higher effort in terms of prose and human effort.

https://learn.mimmsy.com/

Was toying with the idea that with everyone vibe coding niche educational sites (this is a claim about myself, not this site) it would be nice if that effort could go into building an auditable library of widgets/ educational resources users could trust.

Disclaimer: my concept is a stalled WIP/ completely vibe coded, but for me it was fun POC of a widget registry that can be served into chats via mcp

53m agoHN ↗

I wish I had this while studying at uni. How I hated boring lifeless recitation of professors lectures with zero practical explainers, animations, nothing.

25m agoHN ↗

Understanding how complex generating functions help with combinatoric counting makes one's head spin.

(Tenuous pun intended. It keep track of how spinning arrowheads align with or cancel each other)