Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick (1994) by 
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16It has some overlap with Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, which it likely takes as primary sources of some stories.
However, while Surely goes into a lot of detail of each event, this book paints a more cohesive and global picture of things.
In terms of hard physics/mathematics, this book takes the approach of spending a few paragraphs in some chapters describing in high level terms some of the key ideas, which is a good compromise. It does sometime fall into the sin of to talk about something without giving the real name to not scare off the audience, but it does give a lot of names, notably it talks a lot about Lagrangian mechanics. And it goes into more details than Surely in any case.
Amazing talk by Richard Feynman that describes his experiences at Los Alamos National Laboratory while developing the first nuclear weapons.
Transcript: calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos.htm Also included full text into Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-u1qyRM5w&t=2881s describes the computing aspects. Particularly interesting is the quote about how they used the typist secretary pool to emulate the IBM machines and debug their programs before the machines had arrived. This is exactly analogous to what is done in 2020 in the semiconductor industry, where slower models are used to estimate how future algorithms will run in future hardware.
Los Alamos From Below by Richard Feynman (1975)
Source. Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamic by Richard Feynman (1949) by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16The first key paper to his approach to quantum electrodynamics apparently.
Published on Physical Review 76.769.
quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/25/progress/ on Quote Investigator says it appeared in 1948. Can't easily check, but will believe it for now.
Biography of Enrico Fermi by fellow physicist, free rent on the on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/enricofermiphysi0000segr
The World Of Enrico Fermi by Harvard Project Physics (1970) by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16Without me, my stack is useless. Without my stack, I am useless. I must fire my requests true. I must shoot straighter than my hackers who are trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will ...My stack is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its ORMs and its asset bundlers. I will keep my stack clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ...
Explanation: this is an allusion to the Rifleman's Creed. This particular version talks about the website stack chosen for a website, i.e. the libraries used.
Ciro Santilli has always felt that choosing a stack is an almost religious choice. It is perhaps part of why the prayer style of the original Rifleman's Creed resonates with the web stack choice.
It is very hard to know how things are going go, the ups and downs, before putting big hours into it.
And once you start, it is hard, though not impossible, to move away.
Examples:
- html/min.html: minimal valid HTML document. It is insane however.
- html/min-sane.html: minimal sane HTML document. There are smaller valid ones, but they are insane.
- html/img.html
- html/img-broken.html: stackoverflow.com/questions/22051573/how-to-hide-image-broken-icon-using-only-css-html
- html/img-load-lazy.html: stackoverflow.com/questions/2321907/how-do-you-make-images-load-lazily-only-when-they-are-in-the-viewport/57389607#57389607
- html/iframe.html. Uses: html/iframe2.html, html/hello.txt and html/hello
- forms
- YouTube embeds
- css/code-block.html
- css/img-table-vertical-center.html
- css/viewport-height.html: a div that is a tall as the viewport, and does not generate a toplevel scrollbar
- css/responsive-image-max-height.html: here we try to create an image that is never wider than the screen. If the screen is less wide than the image, then the image scales down proportionally. Otherwise, the image has a user determined fixed by the CSS or the HTML
heightproperty. Related:TODO I'm unable to do this....... stackoverflow.com/questions/69964332/how-to-set-the-default-height-of-responsive-images-when-screen-is-wide-and-have The objective was to implement: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook/issues/168 - css/top-navigation.html
- js/confirm-close.html: stackoverflow.com/questions/7317273/warn-user-before-leaving-web-page-with-unsaved-changes
- web-cheat/js-image-load.html: load an image from JavaScript dynamically: stackoverflow.com/questions/226847/what-is-the-best-javascript-code-to-create-an-img-element
- web-cheat/js-image-load-viewport.html: load an image from JavaScript dynamically when it would become visible on the viewport: stackoverflow.com/questions/2321907/how-do-you-make-images-load-only-when-they-are-in-the-viewport
- html/img-load-lazy.html: stackoverflow.com/questions/2321907/how-do-you-make-images-load-lazily-only-when-they-are-in-the-viewport/57389607#57389607
- web-cheat/esm.html: ESM modules
- js/keydown.html: stackoverflow.com/questions/16006583/capturing-ctrlz-key-combination-in-javascript
External libraries
- Text editors
- Interactive HTML table sorting
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