jwmerrill

1,598 karmajoined April 5, 2012On HN

Physicist, probability and geometry enthusiast, and software developer at https://www.desmos.com.

You can reach me at jwmerrill@gmail.com

Recent submissions

Personal Calculator Has Key to Solve Any Equation (1979) [pdf]people.eecs.berkeley.edu
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‘the Zeen’: Steadicam inventor creates wheelchair-walker hybrid whyy.org
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Reflections on a decade of coding, part 7: Coding scattered-thoughts.net
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Flattening Quadratic Béziers raphlinus.github.io
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More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic (2018)engineering.desmos.com
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Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials arxiv.org
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More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic engineering.desmos.com
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How Desmos uses Pratt Parsers engineering.desmos.com
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More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic engineering.desmos.com
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California Passes Sweeping Law to Protect Online Privacy nytimes.com
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Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles quantamagazine.org
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