New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: I just discovered a new algo, what should I do?
Ask HN: I just discovered a new algo, what should I do? 7 by 0xfaded | 5 comments on Hacker News.Hi HN, For a robotics problem I have, I needed to determine the minimum distance between a point and an ellipse. Existing stack overflow answers suggest using root finders to solve a quartic equation or specialised iterative methods that have instabilities. http://ift.tt/2vAff6C One paper suggests…