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Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

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  1. gus_massa · · focus · HN ↗
    In the Figure 1, I expect the smallest circle to draw the figure.
  2. srean · · focus · HN ↗
    Wonder a civilization that discovers complex numbers before naturals, with naturals showing up to count the turns.
    1. tel · · focus · HN ↗
      A huge amount of math unlocked the minute mathematicians started taking complex numbers seriously. Ideally they would be an earlier discovery, I agree!
  3. mrmagoo17 · · focus · HN ↗
    Reminded me of this crazy good video&#x2F;game (a game with no assets because graphics, sounds and music are just built out of sin functions) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Qr3VsZYQy4s?is=IBX2bA1jitw38q0u" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Qr3VsZYQy4s?is=IBX2bA1jitw38q0u
  4. ascots · · focus · HN ↗
    looks like we built different versions of the same thing - except yours clearly is higher effort in terms of prose and human effort.

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.mimmsy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.mimmsy.com&#x2F;

    Was toying with the idea that with everyone vibe coding niche educational sites it would be nice if that effort could go into building a library of widgets&#x2F; educational resources.

    Disclaimer: my concept is a stalled WIP&#x2F; completely vibe coded, but was fun POC of a widget registry that can be served into llm chats by mcp

  5. artemonster · · focus · HN ↗
    I wish I had this while studying at uni. How I hated boring lifeless recitation of professors lectures with zero practical explainers, animations, nothing.
  6. srean · · focus · HN ↗
    Understanding how complex generating functions help with combinatoric counting makes one&#x27;s head spin.

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

  7. sriram_malhar · · focus · HN ↗
    Beautiful presentation!
  8. vivzkestrel · · focus · HN ↗
    - one quick suggestion, make that entire next button clickable and not just the &quot;Next&quot; text

    - I added this to my HN collection of s-tier stuff <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49183198">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49183198

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