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I’ll shill a library I wrote to make wigglegrams & stereograms in matplotlib - I think pseudo-3D visualization is super underrated as a technique to understand data! mpl_stereo: ht…

Thanks for sharing! My background is in control theory, and I think the links between it and game theory and dynamical systems in general are super fruitful but woefully underexplo…

I had the computer do it for me :) Really though, the way to do this is to represent each game as a payout matrix A, which for this category of game will be skew-symmetric with -1/…

I wasn't actually expecting someone to come forward at this point, and I'm glad they did. It finally puts a coda on this crazy week. This situation has completely upended my life. …

I haven't been responding to comments since the volume is way too high, but have read most of them. I'm really glad this is resonating with people and generating a lot of discourse…

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

Thank you for the support all. This incident doesn't bother me personally, but I think is extremely concerning for the future. The issue here is much bigger than open source mainte…

Previously: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (582 comments)

Thanks for adding it! I think anaglyphs are super underused in 3D visualization. The grid lines look pretty good in 3D but the orbits themselves aren't as sharp - it might be the c…

“Should” statements are different from “is” statements - I would not expect them to compile.

Yeah I sympathize with the author, but it’s not hard to talk about these things with a little bit of tact. Intellectual humility also helps. I’ve come to realize I and most others …

Throw in regional accents and you’ll get many more! Aaron earned an iron urn: https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=J34OmyDod7GHUrl1

This I think is an underrated tool for scientific visualization. I made a matplotlib add-on that will let you make stereogram plots of data, and use this cross eyed or parallel eye…

It’s a really good idea! Unfortunately not too much, since the error is largely from atmospheric distortion of the signal and so the error for two receivers close by would be corre…

> whichever is greater This always stuck out in an otherwise excellent bit, because you should definitely _not_ be taking the absolute value of your control error.

My take is that it would probably be possible with enough effort, but there isn't an easy solution. And if you don't need it then the best part is no part. :)

> SpaceX determined they didn't need super tight tolerances and called it a day Yup! This is my conclusion in the article - the landing box for the Super Heavy booster is 5x13x18 m…