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Did this article at some point give up and jump straight into something too difficult?

ha, thank you for your honest feedback. My intended audience is not PhDs or math majors, it is high school physics teachers, practicing engineers, programmers, precocious high scho…

thanks! the 3blue1brown website has some great written content that you may enjoy: https://www.3blue1brown.com/#lessons

thank you! It took a whole month to get the 3D illustrations working well.

why? too clickbaity?

Hi. I wrote whole section on the history of GA and what happened and why it isn't already the norm, but I chose to remove it because the article is already far too long, and I don'…

hey, if you have time to detail those mistakes I'd be happy to fix them in the text. Can you email me at mattferraro.dev@gmail.com

author here. I was mistaken about the 5 degrees of freedom bit. Bivectors have three. I'll fix the text tonight. I'm sorry you wasted ten minutes on my nonsense.

Yes, a bivector has 3 degrees of freedom. I was mistaken when I wrote 5. I'll fix the text tonight.

Author here: I was wrong about the 5 degrees of freedom thing. A bivector has 3 degrees of freedom. I'll correct the text tonight.

yep that paper is extremely impressive! I would love to implement that approach as well, but it is much more computationally expensive. In the Q&A after a talk from that paper's au…

Author here. At my day job I spend lots of hours debugging messy React code! The key is to have side projects too :)

yep I think you're exactly right, as evidenced by the fringes.

Author here. That's a fantastic question! I think you're right that a better solution would include adding curvature to the individual "pixels" in the lens mesh. Unfortunately I do…

You are correct! The simulation as written does not handle the no slip condition. The simulated "air" is inviscid and irrotational. You would need to tackle a few more things in or…

Thanks for calling this out, I thought it might cause confusion. Matrices are super weird objects because they don't fit nicely into the {scalar, vector, function, operator} classe…

thanks you're right about the year! I'll fix that in the next update

thank you for your feedback! I will incorporate all of this into my next draft!

Very cool! A modern analogue might be LinuxCNC, which runs on old PCs in a realtime manner, generating pulses and sending them out the parallel port, or sending commands over ether…

haha no I'm not from Vancouver but I do love Canada. Living in Northern California.

OP here: Teknic Clearpath servos are considered good value and come in lots of different sizes/price points. Wiring them up could not be simpler, but know that you need a windows c…