Why aren't LEDs monochromatic by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
www.reddit.com/r/Optics/comments/18f6bdt/comment/kcsiook/ mentions:
LEDs are broadband by nature, since the spontaneous emission broadly speaking reflects the overlap of the Fermi distribution and the density of states
Water molecule by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
Ball-and-stick model of a water molecule
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Videotelephony by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Emile, or On Education by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
Front cover of the first edition of Emile, or On Education.
Source.
Good summary on the defunct Encyclopedia Britannica: www.britannica.com/topic/Emile-or-On-Education
it is not specifically about schooling but about the upbringing of a rich man’s son, Émile, by a tutor who is given unlimited authority over him. Rousseau’s aim throughout Émile is to show how a natural education, unlike the artificial and formal education of society, enables Émile to become social, moral, and rational while remaining true to his original nature
Also:
He learns a trade, among other things. He studies science, not by receiving instruction in its facts but by making the instruments necessary to solve scientific problems of a practical sort.
Book 1:
I do not consider these laughable establishments called Colleges as a public institution.
There are in several schools, and especially in the University of Paris, Professors whom I like, whom I esteem very much, and whom I believe very capable of instructing young people well, if they were not forced to follow established usage. I urge one of them to publish the reform project he designed. We will perhaps finally be tempted to cure the illness by seeing that it is not without a remedy.
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Je n’envisage pas comme une institution publique ces risibles établissements qu’on appelle Colleges
Il y a dans plusieurs écoles, & surtout dans l’Université de Paris, des Professeurs que j’aime, que j’estime beaucoup, & que je crois très capables de bien instruire la jeunesse, s’ils n’étoient forcés de suivre l’usage établi. J’exhorte l’un d’entre eux à publier le projet de réforme qu’il a conçu. L’on sera peut-être enfin tenté de guérir le mal en voyant qu’il n’est pas sans remède.
Oscilloscope mode by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Publish Notion content by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
But non-paid plan currently disables "Search engine indexing" of that sharing, so it's useless. There's an "Allow duplicate as template" button though which is nice.
URLs are horrendous however, e.g.: lofty-flower-be4.notion.site/aa-2274c59a06124d5b974b781a67340670 Only the aa in that came from us. They don't even have the guts for a fixed subdomain.
Also it does not work without JavaScript, no SSR, everything is dynamic.
They don't show multiple input pages on the same render, e.g.: lofty-flower-be4.notion.site/aa-2274c59a06124d5b974b781a67340670 does not contain the child lofty-flower-be4.notion.site/bb-45df7212a2e14e04b3f9604035c7acf4 as already implemented on OurBigBook Web Dynamic Article Tree.
Cross page links to work fine. But you don't link to explicit IDs, only internal hidden IDs. This can be even slightly confusing to users as multiple identical options can show up when you start creating a link. They do try to disambiguate with the parent page however.
So this is a reasonable single-person publishing platform for your notes.
Someone made and sold a helper for it:
Lasers emit a narrow spectrum by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
It emits a very narrow range of frequencies (small linewidth), which for many purposes can be considered a single frequency.
It does however have a small range of frequencies. The smaller the range, the better the laser quality.
Laser linewidth by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Laser linewidth - measurement and explanation by Your Favourite TA
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Breakup of the Bell System by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
AT&T Breakup-the day after in 1984
. Source. Good documentary from the time. TODO actual title and producer.
Magnetic core by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
Hand drawn schematic of the magnetic field induced in a magnetic core by an electromagnetic coil
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Notion (productivity software) by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
9-Year Hustle to Achieve a Single Goal by EO
. Source. Interview with Akshay Kothari and Ivan Zhao.
Video 2.
How Notion Handles 200 BILLION Notes by Coding with Lewis
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Type of laser by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
Lasers vs other light sources by Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
The key advantages of lasers over other light sources are:
One cool thing about lasers is that they rely on one specific atomic energy level transition to produce light. This is why they are able to to be so monchromatic. Compare this to:
As such, lasers manage to largely overcome "temperature distribution-like" effects that create wider wave spectrum
Video 1.
Crazy difference between 5W laser and 5W LED by Brainiac75
. Source. Baseic but good. Uses a laser photometer.

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