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stunningly smooth execution!

options for details, say first or second order lagrangian wells, interplanetary transport network, object launched from some planet on some trajectory, in whatever natural order of easy to hard feels right, almost like KML options on regular maps


interesting - source(s) on Planet 9 black hole theory?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#Primordial_black_h...

Personally, I'm not very optimistic.

Regarding the primordial black hole: "Konstantin Batygin commented on this, saying while it is possible for Planet Nine to be a primordial black hole, there is currently not enough evidence to make this idea more plausible than any other alternative."

Regarding planet 9 in general: "Further skepticism about the Planet Nine hypothesis arose in 2020, based on results from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey and the Dark Energy Survey, with the OSSOS documenting over 800 trans-Neptunian objects and the DES discovering 316 new ones.[94] Both surveys adjusted for observational bias and concluded that of the objects observed there was no evidence for clustering.[95] The authors go further to explain that practically all objects' orbits can be explained by physical phenomena rather than a ninth planet as proposed by Brown and Batygin.[96] An author of one of the studies, Samantha Lawler, said the hypothesis of Planet Nine proposed by Brown and Batygin "does not hold up to detailed observations" pointing out the much larger sample size of 800 objects compared to the much smaller 14 and that conclusive studies based on said objects were "premature". She went further to explain the phenomenon of these extreme orbits could be due to gravitational occultation from Neptune when it migrated outwards earlier in the Solar System's history.[97]"


love this -- still recall how eye-opening my first course was on numerical solving and appreciating for the first time yet again the sheer potential of compute


Any good books on this?


Robin Green has some excellent material on the subject, which I am linking below.

Faster Math Functions:

https://basesandframes.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/fast-math...

https://basesandframes.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/fast-math...

Even faster math functions GDC 2020:

https://gdcvault.com/play/1026734/Math-in-Game-Development-S...


I am working on one with some more modern suggestions on polynomial approximation, but I think it's still at least 3-6 months away.


Nice! Any way to subscribe for updates?


twenty years back, numerical analysis or numerical methods or sometimes numerical optimization are good keywords for current trending texts on Amazon etc [1]

alternatively subset of the numerical analysi wikipedia page or these algorithms in the book is a good seed filter [2]

ideally covers some linalg like gaussian elim, power method, newton's root finding dynamic, and issues like approximating by discretization, recursion to reduce solve iterations, and things like convergence due to numerical instability due to IEEE 754 fp16 limits etc

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_analysis

2. https://chatgpt.com/share/67002e8c-c5c4-8008-83f9-a6ebc603ad...



so pure -- easily as awesome as this lovely post, (What Hath Woz Wrought)[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41561321

picturing room full of dot matrix printers, fax machines, & thermal printers & modems & old-school saving programs to cassette recordings

all talking to each other via mic relay where each uses AI to subtly detect what character each other just printed via audio and we can read their LLM convos


wish there was DROP | JUNK | SPAM | REPORT option where provider &/or FCC could direct investigate spam peeps

plus mains & MVNOs checked DO NOT CALL / DO NOT TEXT registry before letting known spam accounts through etc


cue adjacent scenario where malicious sites create AI honeypots whereupon when visited for user visit url is constructed such as to exfiltrate the user data

exemplar:

user: find X about Y AI: ok -- browsing web -- visits honeypot site that has high webrank about topic Y user: ok - more from that source ai: ok -- browsing web -- visits honeypot site using OpenSearch protocol & attendant user request

swap OpenSearch protocol with other endpoints or perhaps sonme .well-known exploit or just a honeypot api -- imagining faux weather api or news site etc


like the sentence approach as compared to toucan's word-only extension iric


love this -- would be cool if could mod line thickness, ball size / density to vary pitch?

also hard not to picture building a mini transformer in here where can visual backprop and stuff-

some templates to load or get started - play X etc or let the computer just play semi-random

anyway love it well done clean simple


shades of the Wells turbine for tidal!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_turbine


looking forward to &/or wondering about overlap with notion of ray tracing LLMs


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