Welcome to Roughly Understood! My name is James and I am writing articles on various topics from programming to physics to electrical engineering.
People tend to over-estimate their knowledge on a topic. My goal here is to show that every understanding of a topic is a rough understanding. There is always another layer deeper we can go. I don't claim to be an expert on any of these topics. However, I do wish to write about them with the hopes that our rough understanding can become a little closer to what is really going on. Potentially looking at the problem from new and exciting perspectives.
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Posts
Foray Into Fourier
The Fourier Transform. What is it and how does it work? Today we dive particularly deep into some of the maths and intuition behind one of the most useful algorithms of all time. Bonus, at the end of this article we draw my dog Henry with maths.
Dopplin' Around
The Doppler effect. What is it? Why should we care? and why cars go VroooOOOmm. There is also a fun animation that gives, I believe, a fairly intuitive understanding of why the Doppler effect occurs.