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Bzarg
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Bzarg is a personal blog at bzarg.com about math and writing. Since 2015, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “How a Kalman filter works, in pictures”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- How a Kalman filter works, in pictures21 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2018-11-14
- The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-08-11
- How to pronounce hexadecimal6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Recommend http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...
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on “Rudolf Kálmán Has Died”Submitted How a Kalman filter works, in pictures as a story · 481 points
HN discussionSee also http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-to-pronounce-hexadecimal/
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on “Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)”Submitted The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures as a story · 443 points
HN discussionI googled kalman filter https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... Looks interesting!
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on “Ask HN: I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems”Submitted How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015) as a story · 390 points
HN discussionAnother nice explanation, a bit more visual. http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...
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on “How Kalman Filters Work”Submitted How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015) as a story · 213 points
HN discussionI like this previous explanation: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13449229
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on “Kalman Filter Explained Simply”Submitted How a Kalman filter works, in pictures as a story · 194 points
HN discussionI remember struggling with understanding Kalman filters (and Particle filters). I found [1] to be an amazingly clear explanation: [1] http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...
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on “Quick explanation of how a Kalman filter works”Submitted What Bitcoin shows us about how money works as a story · 77 points
HN discussionYou may enjoy this tutorial: http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...
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on “PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]”Submitted How a Kalman filter works, in pictures as a story · 48 points
HN discussionThe Kalman Filter has been one of the toughest concepts for me to grasp over the years. I have looked at many examples related to target tracking, which logically makes sense to me given physical behavior of flying targets. But can anyone provide more applications that make learning the Kalman Filter easy? I recommend the following two articles that helped me get a better working understanding of the Kalman Filter:…
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on “Kalman Filter”Submitted How a Kalman filter works, in pictures as a story · 17 points
HN discussionHere are two good resources for the Kalman Filter: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... https://www.kalmanfilter.net/default.aspx
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on “Kalman Filter”Submitted How to pronounce hexadecimal as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSome Kalman filter links I found useful How a Kalman filter works, in pictures https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... Derive yourself a Kalman filter https://ngr.yt/blog/kalman/ Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...
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on “Kalman Filter”Submitted How to pronounce hexadecimal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAuthor here -- I'm glad you like the post! There are more like you describe out there, though they tend to be scattered around the Internet. https://jvns.ca/ often gets mentioned on HN and has a large volume of posts that follow the format "let's assume both you and I don't know anything - how do we figure this out?". http://jamie-wong.com/ , a coworker, has a few good ones on graphics/numerical stuff. Characterizin…
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on “A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor”Submitted Interview tips for moving up to leadership as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAgree 100%. Cryptocurrency can't be money until it measures stable value. And that stability is literally impossible without a central bank. http://www.bzarg.com/p/what-bitcoin-shows-us-about-how-money...
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on “It can all go to zero”Submitted How a Kalman Filter Works in Pictures (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's another explanation of Kalman filters here: http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...
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on “Kalman Filter via a Simple and Intuitive Derivation [pdf]”Submitted Short fiction: “Specter” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCongrats on the launch nextmv! I had a chance to play with nextmv's beta when they first published it. By far the most useful aspect was the ability to bracket the decision results by calculation time. E.g., I can say, give me your best result of this choice given 100ms. This changes the typical "train / test / deploy" ML process, to something where you can get as accurate a result as possible given some block of ti…
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on “Launch HN: Nextmv (YC W20) – Developer-friendly logistics algorithms”Submitted Second Order FizzBuzz as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> - Constrained supply means protection against inflationist central banks. This keeps being touted as a feature, but unless you are Zimbabwe it is a bug. "Supply-constrained" means "demand-driven price" which means "volatile." A useful currency is one that measures wealth consistency, like a meter stick. You don't want your money to mis-count your wealth. Hoping that it will mis-count your wealth in your favor is s…
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on “Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely”Submitted How to Pronounce Hexadecimal as a story · 2 points
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