Lee Phillips
lee-phillips.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Lee Phillips is a physicist who writes on Typst, Python, Linux, Noether, and other technical and general interest subjects.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for practical guides, such as how to use Twitter and Typst filters, and for his writing on Emmy Noether.
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Most-shared posts
- 1How to Twitter (2020)10 people · 35 points · first shared 2020 · 3 comments on HN
- 2Fibonacci Numbers in the Real World5 people · 38 points · first shared 2013 · 18 comments on HN
- 3The PermaTab Web Browser3 people · 65 points · first shared 2021 · 11 comments on HN
- 4I Don’t Like Python2 people · 22 points · first shared 2020 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Using Typst Today: When You Need LaTeX2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 6Using Debian Linux on the Lenovo ThinkCentre M732 people · 4 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7Who is the dick? (2011) -- [John Gruber / Jay Maisel]2 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8Noether2 people · first shared 2024
- 9A plucked string simulator using Julia1 people · 30 points · first shared 2024 · 9 comments on HN
- 10Noether's Theorem and Machine Learning1 people · 28 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 11My Julia Book Is in Libraries1 people · 27 points · first shared 2023 · 2 comments on HN
- 12My PGP key used to be here1 people · 23 points · first shared 2021 · 14 comments on HN
- 13Klein Bottles and Nuclear Fusion1 people · 17 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14Why Should I Pay to Read This?1 people · 16 points · first shared 2021 · 6 comments on HN
- 15But What Is It?1 people · 11 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
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leephillips · 2026-06-04
I check the NYT every day. There are occasional articles that are truly great examples of journalism. But I cannot stomach the idea of sending any money their way. Their political and cultural biases infect nearly everything they put out, and I find some of these biases repugnant. They are also underhanded at times. Here’s an example:
http://lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA
vladdoster · 2025-09-27
The git repository[0] for your typist to latex filter in the “transform” article[1] you link in the conclusion returns a 403 error :/
I’d love to see the code
[0]https://lee-phillips.org/typstfilters/code
[1] https://lee-phillips.org/typstfilters
Isamu · 2025-02-09
I recommend the book Einstein’s Tutor” which came out last year.
https://lee-phillips.org/noether/
This is probably the best layman’s approach to Noether, her impact, and how she probably didn’t think much about the theorem later because she wasn’t interested in physics and abstract mathematics was her consuming passion.
omoikane · 2023-10-08
Maybe they meant it's not a threat because people don't care about who they are following being revealed, since it used to be publicized on Twitter.
Though note that Twitter has a "list" feature that allows users to differentiate people they follow versus contents that they want to read[1], whereas Fediverse's "list" feature is more of a filter since users must follow an account first before it can be placed on a list[2]. I think the workaround for Mastodon would be to bookmark profile pages for people you want to check on but don't want to follow.
[1] https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
[2] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/lists/#accounts-add
dewey · 2022-03-11
> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
The same thing could just be achieved by using Tweetbot or another third party client, you can just follow the people as usual and it'll be a regular sorted timeline with no ads and suggestions or promoted tweets.
CharlesW · 2022-03-11
> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
Great resource, thanks for linking!
freehunter · 2013-05-29
It's odd that your own website has a movie section and a link to IMDB and several movie critics [1] and yet you're here on HN trying to show off pretending that you're so far removed that you have to go out of your way to explain to random people that you don't know who this person is when no one asked if you knew and knowing who she is isn't even relevant to the topic.
Do you walk down the street telling passers-by that you don't follow celebrities? Is it that important to you?
[1] http://lee-phillips.org/info/movies/movies.html
alecdbrooks · 2014-05-10
The author of the article is aware of the article you linked to and wrote a response: http://lee-phillips.org/lispmath. The problem with the closed form is that once it exceeds the built-in data types, it no longer takes constant time to compute, so it's not actually always faster than doing it iteratively.
Apparently, the ideal method is "none of the above" but to use matrix exponentiation (or a formula derived from it) instead: http://nayuki.eigenstate.org/page/fast-fibonacci-algorithms.