Photon-Lines Substack

An Intuitive Guide to Interface Design

A guide to creating web-sites and interfaces people will love using.

Sep 6 • 

Nick M

4

July 2025

Photon-Lines Tech Notes - July 2025

My own favorite notes & highlights from the world of tech - July 2025 Edition

Jul 31 • 

Nick M

3

An Intuitive Guide to Black Holes

An intuitive and visual-focused guide to what black-holes are (primarily lead by a simple thought-experiment).

Jul 6 • 

Nick M

4

April 2025

A Walk Through Combinatorics

An intuitive and visual focused walk-through and overview of combinatorics.

Apr 25 • 

Nick M

16

1

March 2025

Visual-Focused Algorithms Cheat Sheet

A visual-focused review of some key practical algorithms used in the real world.

Mar 19 • 

Nick M

67

November 2024

A Walk-Through of String Search Algorithms

A walk-through of how some of the popular string-search algorithms work with a focus on the well-known Boyer-Moore and Robin-Karp algorithms.

Nov 22, 2024 • 

Nick M

2

October 2024

Algorithms for Optimization (Explained Simply): Part 2 - Line Search and the Trust Region Method

A visual-focused and intuitive overview of important optimization algorithms. This blog post focuses explaining the details behind the line search and…

Oct 25, 2024 • 

Nick M

1

August 2024

Visual Data Structures Cheat-Sheet

A visual overview of some of the key data-structures used in the real world.

Aug 14, 2024 • 

Nick M

30

July 2024

Algorithms for Optimization (Explained Simply): Part 1

A visual and example-focused guide to algorithms used for solving optimization problems.

Jul 19, 2024 • 

Nick M

8

Michel Talagrand: Advice to Young Mathematicians

Fantastic advice by an Abel prize winner to young mathematicians.

Jul 9, 2024 • 

Nick M

2

June 2024

An Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations

An Intuitive and Visual Guide to Maxwell's Equations

Jun 1, 2024 • 

Nick M

60

March 2024

Intuitive and Visual Guide to Transformers and ChatGPT

An intuitive and visual exploration of how transformers and large language models like ChatGPT work.

Mar 2, 2024 • 

Nick M

2