Brooks Mershon

Steen Skybolt N23JG Brooks Mershon

I run Mile High Gliding. I used to write code… I still do, too.

I currently fly a big red biplane in Boulder, Colorado.

EAA 1271516

IAC 440213

🆕 Projects

# Grid Cycles

# The Little Schemer Code

# From Mathematics to Generic Programming

# Category Theory (self-study module) [Wiki]

# SIGGRAPH 2016: A Wide-Eyed Account [PDF] [SRC]

# Hofstadter Sequences

# Equidecomposability

# Laplacian Mesh Editing

# Shape Descriptors

# Procrustes Alignment of 3D Meshes

# Specular Reflections (Echo Simulator 2016)

# WikiBlocks [VIDEO] [SRC]

# Context Sensitive Label Placement

# Reid’s Conservation Legacy

# 2015 Cy Young Tracker

# Teaching Topology with Code [PDF] [SRC]

# Flickr [Medium]

Steen Skybolt N23JG

GitHub repositories for longer projects. Some repos are actually teaching materials organized in the spirit of a software project, because teaching is programming. And I love teaching and explaining as I’m learning while leaving a record beind, if only to help externalize memory.
bl.ocks.org for interactive visuals, code snippets, and bite-sized explainers. Often made to teach myself. These are updated frequently and more often than not reflect a day’s effort at playing with a new idea. In the same veign as Mike Bostock’s examples, these blocks help me to break a larger project into smaller self-contained explainers. It’s a good day when I can upload another one of these; like building blocks, these tend to be part of larger and more involved structures.
Observable Notebooks. I have recently started producing interactive educational content on this platform in parallel with the material that I am currently self-studying. I learn best by examples. Observable helps me build examples that keep on giving to both myself and others.

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Books, essays, films and other resources I have found to be particularly great or enriching. Updated frequently.