Jason Cole
jasmcole.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Jason Cole writes occasional investigations into maths, physics and data, such as WiFi placement, rolling shutters and signed distance fields.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend it as a very decent blog, and link its posts on signed distance fields, rolling shutters and a swipe-keyboard analysis.
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- 1“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”3 people · 869 points · first shared 2017 · 270 comments on HN
- 2Helmhurts: Placing a WiFi router with the Helmholtz equation3 people · 147 points · first shared 2014 · 19 comments on HN
- 3Rolling Shutters2 people · 708 points · first shared 2014 · 41 comments on HN
- 4Simulation of light passing through a raindrop2 people · 24 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 5A Decade of WiFi2 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 6Signed distance fields2 people · first shared 2020
- 7Designing Stereographic Lampshades1 people · 190 points · first shared 2014 · 16 comments on HN
- 8England and Wales House Price Analysis1 people · 153 points · first shared 2016 · 60 comments on HN
- 9Wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once1 people · 86 points · first shared 2015 · 46 comments on HN
- 10Cooking the Books: Optimizing Purchase and Use of Ingredients1 people · 62 points · first shared 2018 · 17 comments on HN
- 11On which shaped planet am I the heaviest?1 people · 25 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12How thick is a three-sided coin?1 people · 13 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13Annealing the Underground1 people · 9 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14London House Prices1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15Bayes vs. Paul the Psychic Octopus1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
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jasmcole · 2020-04-07
https://jasmcole.com
Started 6 years ago now, occasional investigations into maths, physics, and data.
tucnak · 2024-06-30
> I've been tempted to run some analysis and try find a keyboard layout that minimises errors
You should check this out; https://jasmcole.com/2017/06/04/swype-right/
ramses0 · 2021-05-21
What are signed distance fields? https://jasmcole.com/2019/10/03/signed-distance-fields/
…very decent blog post!
gus_massa · 2014-10-18
I'm still not sure if this is "republished with the author authorization" or simply plain blogspam. The original article is linked at the bottom: http://jasmcole.com/2014/10/12/rolling-shutters/ and it w previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8446932 (705 points, 5 days ago, 41 comments)