Photon-Lines Substack
Complex things explained simply. We explore topics using a visual and intuitive methodology. Click to read Photon-Lines Substack, by Nick M, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
- Posts
- 38 from 7 Jun 2023 to 1 Oct 2026
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- monthly (6 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 3
2025 9
- Principles of Economics Made Clear (Part 3)
- Principles of Economics Made Clear (Part 2)
- The Rise of The Machines
- Principles of Economics Made Clear (Part 1)
- An Intuitive Guide to Interface Design
- Photon-Lines Tech Notes - July 2025
- An Intuitive Guide to Black Holes
- A Walk Through Combinatorics
- Visual-Focused Algorithms Cheat Sheet
2024 9
- A Walk-Through of String Search Algorithms
- Algorithms for Optimization (Explained Simply): Part 2 - Line Search and the Trust Region Method
- Visual Data Structures Cheat-Sheet
- Algorithms for Optimization (Explained Simply): Part 1
- Michel Talagrand: Advice to Young Mathematicians
- An Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations
- Intuitive and Visual Guide to Transformers and ChatGPT
- Sam Altman's Startup Advice (Part 2)
- Sam Altman's Startup Advice (Part 1)
2023 17
- Intuitive Guide to Quick Sort
- Intuitive Guide to Merge Sort
- Understanding Optimization Algorithms: Newton's Method
- Grokking Huffman Coding
- Visual Introduction to Harmonic Analysis
- Visualizing The Derivative
- A Visual Introduction to Binary Search
- Lessons from June Huh: From High-School Dropout to Fields Medal Winner
- A Visual Introduction to Neural Networks
- A Brief Visual Introduction to Gradients and Gradient Descent
- On Life and Death
- Understanding The Monte Carlo Method
- Grokking Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMTs)
- Introduction to Hash Tables
- LLMs as Social Companions
- Grokking AVL and RAVL Trees
- Introduction to the Photon Lines Blog