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PostgreSQL 18 documentation, §39.3: stored query results, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW and the sales-summary example. Institutional software documentation.
FreeType Glyph Conventions II, sections 1–2: digital points, device resolution, pixels per em and scaling design coordinates.
University of Waterloo mirror of the 1997 Adobe glossary. Entries ascender, descender and x-height are used here; the archived encoding and software descriptions are historical, not current guidance.
Computational Linguistics24(1),97–123(1998). Original PDF aclanthology.org/J98-1004.pdf ; context representations, context-group discrimination and clustering appendices.
Institutional profile and explicitly labeled portrait; computational linguistics research and teaching.
Verified locator: Microsoft platform specification: Parameter passing integer row (RCX, RDX, R8, R9); Return values (scalar integer result in RAX).
PostgreSQL 18, tutorial section 3.2: named query and interface abstraction. CREATE VIEW reference: www.postgresql.org/docs/18/sql-createview.html ; Description and Automatically Updatable Views: nonmaterialized semantics and limits on updates.
OpenType baseline-tag registry: horizontal versus vertical layout and the romn, hang, math and ideographic baselines.
OpenType head table: unitsPerEm field and flags relating the baseline and glyph metrics to the coordinate system.
Primary source: www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/auth.pdf
Verified locator: Author-hosted paper: byline Jon M. Kleinberg, existing Jon Kleinberg article reused. §2, hubs/authorities and normalized updates; abstract states eigenvector connection.
Primary source: developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/how-search-works
Verified locator: Crawling, Indexing and Serving search results; distinguishes discovery, processing and ranking.
Primary source: nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
Verified locator: Authors: Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze. Chapter1 opening definition, inverted index; Chapter8 precision/recall. Indexed author-hosted chapter nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/boolean-retrieval-1.html verified.
PostgreSQL 18, section 51.5 and 51.5.1: candidate scans, join methods, estimated costs and heuristic search.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.
Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. 
- Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact