Mitchell P. Krawiec-Thayer
@mitchellpkt.com
I like birds and numbers and chess. RHS / ONU / UW-Madison
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from now on I'm just going to truncate the taylor series for sin at the first term. sin(x) = 0 for all x. this approximation
- is efficient to compute
- has bounded error
- has excellent analytic properties
- has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications
- is efficient to compute
- has bounded error
- has excellent analytic properties
- has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications
October 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
from now on I'm just going to truncate the taylor series for sin at the first term. sin(x) = 0 for all x. this approximation
- is efficient to compute
- has bounded error
- has excellent analytic properties
- has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications
- is efficient to compute
- has bounded error
- has excellent analytic properties
- has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications
New visitor to the park - some sort of night heron??
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
New visitor to the park - some sort of night heron??
/* record scratch */
My rook, fianchettoed on g2: “Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation...”
#chess
My rook, fianchettoed on g2: “Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation...”
#chess
September 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
/* record scratch */
My rook, fianchettoed on g2: “Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation...”
#chess
My rook, fianchettoed on g2: “Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation...”
#chess
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September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶
September 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶
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September 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Just bought a book on optics, for a bit of light reading
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just bought a book on optics, for a bit of light reading
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A bit metaphorical and personified, but I'm fairly satisfied with the result. #poetrysky
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A bit metaphorical and personified, but I'm fairly satisfied with the result. #poetrysky
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My toxic trait is thinking I'll notice a pattern if I just keep increasing n. 🧮
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My toxic trait is thinking I'll notice a pattern if I just keep increasing n. 🧮
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Another math-y stained glass art. How? Place random points and create Voronoi diagram and give each polygon the average color of the underlying pixels.
July 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Another math-y stained glass art. How? Place random points and create Voronoi diagram and give each polygon the average color of the underlying pixels.
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June 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
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Fourier transform of Google Trends of Fourier transform 🧪
October 27, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Fourier transform of Google Trends of Fourier transform 🧪
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Oft remarked that two wrongs don't make a right, but never seen anytime establish in general that if you've done n wrongs then n+1 won't fix it. Keep going, dig deeper, there's still hope.
May 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Oft remarked that two wrongs don't make a right, but never seen anytime establish in general that if you've done n wrongs then n+1 won't fix it. Keep going, dig deeper, there's still hope.
I previously thought that Langton's ant was just a theoretical construct, lol! 🧮
May 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I previously thought that Langton's ant was just a theoretical construct, lol! 🧮
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May 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
How it feels coming back to 1. e4 after playing only 1. c4 for a few months
March 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
How it feels coming back to 1. e4 after playing only 1. c4 for a few months
A nifty ending from one of my recent games on @lichess.org - This is both a “pure mate” in the technical sense (king prevented from moving to each adjacent square for exactly one reason), AND also the first time that I’ve ever delivered checkmate by moving one of my knights to the furthest rank.
March 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A nifty ending from one of my recent games on @lichess.org - This is both a “pure mate” in the technical sense (king prevented from moving to each adjacent square for exactly one reason), AND also the first time that I’ve ever delivered checkmate by moving one of my knights to the furthest rank.
I literally stopped in my tracks when I saw this cloud iridescence while out on a walk. It didn't look like something that could be real and physical, more like a rendering glitch. Remember degaussing a CRT monitor?
March 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I literally stopped in my tracks when I saw this cloud iridescence while out on a walk. It didn't look like something that could be real and physical, more like a rendering glitch. Remember degaussing a CRT monitor?
A tactic that presented itself in one of my recent games - white to move and gain material in 3.
You can message me for the answer, but you’ll know it when you see it.
You can message me for the answer, but you’ll know it when you see it.
December 8, 2024 at 10:02 PM
A tactic that presented itself in one of my recent games - white to move and gain material in 3.
You can message me for the answer, but you’ll know it when you see it.
You can message me for the answer, but you’ll know it when you see it.
