BEN EBSWORTH
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PLL Design from First Principles
A phase-locked loop is a control system with a phase detector instead of a summing junction. The intuition you can build with the lab above is more durable than the textbook derivations.
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The Smith Chart is Geometry
What looks like a chart for radio engineers is really a Möbius transform drawn on the complex plane. A visual essay on why impedance matching is a question of circles, lines, and rotations.
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The Neural Network Zoo, Revisited
A guided tour through the Asimov Institute's Neural Network Zoo — every architecture from the poster, with intuition for what each one is actually for and an interactive SVG diagram for the major families.
