Love letter to catlangs - Ideas - Malleable Systems Forum
incredible thread on concatenative languages that goes to some unexpected places
Jones on Arithmetic
tutorials on how to do "arithmetic on machines with just binary add, subtract, logical and shift operators, making no use of special hardware support for such complex operations as BCD arithmetic or multiplication and division" very good, very helpful
Z80 Assembly: Multiplication and division
nicely explained
Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations | Quanta Magazine
"Embedding tricks and chain-of-thought prompting simply extends their ability to do more sophisticated pattern matching. The mathematical results imply that you can always find compositional tasks whose complexity lies beyond a given system’s abilities."
Easing Functions Cheat Sheet
i always lose track of this site, which is very nice
Value Noise and Procedural Patterns
"Noise is not a complicated concept, but it has many subtleties." practical, detailed introduction with code samples
3Blue1Brown - Calculus
3Blue1Brown calculus lessons are back! in pog form. i mean blog form
The Gumbel-Softmax Distribution – Emma Benjaminson – Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student
From Python to Numpy
presents "a different approach concentrating on the migration from Python to Numpy through vectorization..." with "a lot of techniques that you don't find in books and such techniques are mostly learned through experience"
Terrain Hat Generator
Curves and Surfaces – Bartosz Ciechanowski
etymology - Rhetoric vs. Mathematics: ellipsis/ellipse, parable/parabola, hyperbole/hyperbola - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
rhetoric and conic sections. this is amazing
Finding Natural Breaks in Data with the Fisher-Jenks Algorithm - Practical Business Python
like k-means but 1d, good overview
Overview of Matrix Factorization Techniques using Python
Drawing Curved
"a collection of texts and images concerned with digital curvature. It seeks to understand when a curve starts to be tangible, or what might give a sense that they can or can't be handled. What makes a curve smooth? When does it seem appropriate to interrupt it?"