daviazpen

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   by daviazpen 2mo ago

   sorry about that. i'm just trying to reply as best as i can. i'm a bit self-conscious about my english, so I probably overthink what I write.
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   by daviazpen 2mo ago

   Thank you, genuinely. This means a lot, especially coming from someone who actually read through the methodology. On the RK4 accuracy: it surprised me too, honestly. The 412 km RMS against JPL Horizons over 50 years came from combining a
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   by daviazpen 2mo ago

   yep
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   by daviazpen 2mo ago

   Thank you! this is exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for. Making the solver swappable is a genuinely great idea I hadn't considered. Watching Euler blow up the solar system while RK4 stays stable would make the tradeoffs imm
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   by daviazpen 2mo ago

   Fair point, and one I've thought about a lot. My analogy: AI is like a calculator. In the hands of someone who doesn't understand math, it produces answers they can't verify. In the hands of someone learning, it lets you ta
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   Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids(neoradar.space)

   59 points by daviazpen 2mo ago|25 comments
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   by daviazpen 2mo ago

   Hi HN! I'm Davi, a 17-year-old developer from Brazil, and I've spent the last few months building NEO Radar, a browser-based orbital mechanics engine focused on Near-Earth Objects. The goal wasn't to build another Solar Syste