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Kybernetes is a small publication on cybernetics — where philosophy meets feedback loops, and the abstract study of systems meets the mathematics of control engineering.
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What feedback knows
Purpose without a planner: how a loop can 'aim' at a goal, and why Wiener thought this dissolved an old philosophical knot.
Control engineeringPID control, from intuition to equations
The three terms that run most of the regulated world — proportional, integral, derivative — built up from one simple question.