Chandan Relekar 🦚
@chanrt.bsky.social
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PhD (Math Bio) @ Max Planck EvolBio. BS-MS (Physics) @ IISc Bangalore. Complex dynamical systems ⚙️ Bookworm, coder, gamer, pianist and fitness enthusiast. Website: chanrt.github.io
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It has been featured in coursework and bulletin boards: willrosenbaum.com/teaching/202... and wordsandbuttons.online

All of this started because, one evening, I was teaching trigonometry to my sister, and I was motivated to come up with an intuitive way to explain trig functions
chanrt.bsky.social
It has been featured in coursework and bulletin boards: willrosenbaum.com/teaching/202.... and wordsandbuttons.online

All of this started because, one evening, I was teaching trigonometry to my sister, and I was motivated to come up with an intuitive way to explain trig functions
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My work was featured in the top 100 worldwide of Math YouTuber 3Blue1Brown's Summer of Math Exposition II.

It was cited in a paper about using augmented reality to improve math textbooks.

Every month, it gets ~800 clicks via Google search, ~1500 new users around the globe, and ~18000 impressions
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Since December 2020, I’ve been building visualize-it.github.io as part of my science communication and outreach efforts. It features 45 interactive visualizations from math, physics, computer science, and complex systems.

If you find it interesting, please repost it!
#science #scicomm #education
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My work was featured in the top 100 worldwide of Math YouTuber 3Blue1Brown's Summer of Math Exposition II.

It was cited in a paper about using augmented reality to improve math textbooks.

Every month, it gets ~800 clicks via Google search, ~1500 new users around the globe, and ~18000 impressions
Result of 3Blue1Brown's competition on making math explainers Paper that cited my work: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3586183.3606827 Google search analytics New users worldwide
chanrt.bsky.social
It has been featured in coursework and bulletin boards: www.willrosenbaum.com/teaching/202... and wordsandbuttons.online

All of this started because one evening, I was teaching trigonometry to my sister, and I was motivated to come up with an intuitive way to explain trig functions
Sine and Cosine are projections ("shadows") of an angle tracked along a unit circle on the Y-axis and X-axis respectively. Similar explanations exist for (co)secant and (co)tangent: https://visualize-it.github.io/trig_functions/simulation.html
chanrt.bsky.social
My work was featured in the top 100 worldwide of Math YouTuber 3Blue1Brown's Summer of Math Exposition II.

It was cited in a paper about using augmented reality to improve math textbooks.

Every month, it gets ~800 clicks via Google search, ~1500 new users around the globe, and ~18000 impressions
Result of 3Blue1Brown's competition New users from around the world Google search results Paper that cited my work: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3586183.3606827
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The factory must grow #factorio
Screenshot of the main bus from factorio Screenshot of the entire factory in map view
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Thanks for making this list.

I've previously worked on automaton models of patchy ecosystems near criticality, as well as data-driven models of fish behaviour. I'm currently working on inferring interactions in the gut microbiome.

I would love to be included!
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Sometimes it is interjected by screentime but I avoid it as much as possible (and also use warmer colors)
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They look like voronoi diagrams (well, they probably are)
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Beautiful! Can you please elaborate what these plots depict?
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The existence of universality classes is so weird.
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Maybe they're offering an early bird discount