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Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Daniel Sank by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Cool dude. Uses Stack Exchange: physics.stackexchange.com/users/31790/danielsank

Started at Google Quantum AI in 2014.

Has his LaTeX notes at: github.com/DanielSank/theory. One day he will convert to OurBigBook.com. Interesting to see that he is able to continue his notes despite being at Google.

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Sycamore processor by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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This is a good read: quantumai.google/hardware/datasheet/weber.pdf May 14, 2021. Their topology is so weird, not just a rectangle, one wonders why! You get different error rates in different qubits, it's mad.

Figure 1.
Google Sycamore Weber quantum computer connectivity graph
. Weber is a specific processor of the Sycamore family. From this we see it clearly that qubits are connected to at most 4 other qubits, and that the full topology is not just a simple rectangle.

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Who are the developers that are making the most money through GitHub sponsors? by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1824

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Inside Job (2010) by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Margin Call (2011) by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Video 1.

Peter Sullivan discovers the issue scene from Margin Call

. Source.

Video 2.

Senior partners emergency meeting scene from Margin Call

. Source. God, Jeremy Irons is destroying it!!! And all others too.

Video 3.

Fire Sale of Mortgage Bonds scene from Margin Call

. Source.

Video 4.

Investment Analyst Explains Margin Call by The Plain Bagel

. Source.

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The Big Short (2015) by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Video 1.

I'm Jacked to the Tits remix by The Big Short (2021)

Source.

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FeatherJS demo apps by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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github.com/feathersjs/awesome-feathersjs#projects-using-feathers

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FeathersJS Heroku deployment by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Got it working as mentioned at: github.com/cirosantilli/feathers-chat/tree/sequelize-pg

One major step was to port to PostgreSQL as shown at feathers-chat PostgreSQL.

Bibliography:

There's also a heroku branch at: github.com/feathersjs/feathers-chat/tree/heroku, but it also seems to use NeDB? So you can have a filesystem in Heroku? Doesn't seem so: stackoverflow.com/questions/42775418/heroku-local-persistent-storage

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FeathersJS signup email verification by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Faster-than-light implies time travel by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Figure 1.
Spacetime diagram illustrating how faster-than-light travel implies time travel
. Legend an explanation are shown in this answer.

Bibliography:

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Tachyon by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Tachyonic antitelephone by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Realworld app written in Express by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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gothinkster/realworld implementations based on Express.js.

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ELF Hello World Tutorial / STT_FILE by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Entry 1 has ELF64_R_TYPE == STT_FILE. ELF64_R_TYPE is continued inside of st_info.

Byte analysis:

10 8: st_name = 01000000 = character 1 in the .strtab, which until the following \0 makes hello_world.asm
This piece of information file may be used by the linker to decide on which segment sections go: e.g. in ld linker script we write:
```
segment_name :
{
    file(section)
}
```
to pick a section from a given file.
Most of the time however, we will just dump all sections with a given name together with:
```
segment_name :
{
    *(section)
}
```
10 12: st_info = 04
Bits 0-3 = ELF64_R_TYPE = Type = 4 = STT_FILE: the main purpose of this entry is to use st_name to indicate the name of the file which generated this object file.
Bits 4-7 = ELF64_ST_BIND = Binding = 0 = STB_LOCAL. Required value for STT_FILE.
10 13: st_shndx = Symbol Table Section header Index = f1ff = SHN_ABS. Required for STT_FILE.
20 0: st_value = 8x 00: required for value for STT_FILE
20 8: st_size = 8x 00: no allocated size

Now from the readelf, we interpret the others quickly.

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ELF Hello World Tutorial / STT_SECTION by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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There are two such entries, one pointing to .data and the other to .text (section indexes 1 and 2).

Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
  2: 0000000000000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    1
  3: 0000000000000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    2

TODO what is their purpose?

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ELF Hello World Tutorial / STT_NOTYPE by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Then come the most important symbols:

Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
  4: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 hello_world
  5: 000000000000000d     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS hello_world_len
  6: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 _start

hello_world string is in the .data section (index 1). It's value is 0: it points to the first byte of that section.

_start is marked with GLOBAL visibility since we wrote:

global _start

in NASM. This is necessary since it must be seen as the entry point. Unlike in C, by default NASM labels are local.

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ELF Hello World Tutorial / SHT_SYMTAB on the executable by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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By default, NASM places a .symtab on the executable as well.

This is only used for debugging. Without the symbols, we are completely blind, and must reverse engineer everything.

You can strip it with objcopy, and the executable will still run. Such executables are called "stripped executables".

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ELF Hello World Tutorial / .rel.text by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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Besides sh_type == SHT_RELA, there also exists SHT_REL, which would have section name .text.rel (not present in this object file).

Those represent the same struct, but without the addend, e.g.:

typedef struct {
    Elf64_Addr  r_offset;
    Elf64_Xword r_info;
} Elf64_Rela;

The ELF standard says that in many cases the both can be used, and it is just a matter of convenience.

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ELF Hello World Tutorial / SHT_NULL by

Ciro Santilli  40 Updated 2025-07-16

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In index 0, SHT_NULL is mandatory. Are there any other uses for it: stackoverflow.com/questions/26812142/what-is-the-use-of-the-sht-null-section-in-elf ?

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 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!

Video 1.

Intro to OurBigBook

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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-calculus
Articles 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/derivative
Video 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:
- 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
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.
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
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Figure 4.
Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
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Figure 5.
Web editor
. 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.
Video 4.
OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
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Internal cross file references done right:
Infinitely deep tables of contents:
Figure 6.
Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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Live URL: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate
Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade