Stack Overflow user by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Stack Overflow users Ciro Santilli dislikes by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Nothing personal, just Ciro Santilli strongly disagrees with the moderation philosophies of these users.
One particular type of user Ciro particularly dislikes are those who do more moderation than content. Ciro finds it very hard to understand why some people spend so much time moderating. Maybe that's how politicians exist, some people just like that kind of activity.
The moderators tend to have lower intermediate rep. They spend too much time moderating and too little time coding.
A state-transition equation is a mathematical representation used in various fields, such as control theory, systems engineering, and economics, to describe how a system transitions from one state to another over time. The equation typically relates the current state of the system to its next state and incorporates dynamic aspects of the system, such as time, input variables, or external influences.
Jim Simons by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's wife, who was frustrated with academia at some point, admires the fact that Simons managed to make infinite money, and then invested back in actual science, e.g. through the Simons Foundation.
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Jim Simons in 2007
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The concept of a "tensor product model transformation" is related to tensor products in mathematics and physics, especially in the context of linear algebra, quantum mechanics, and machine learning. Here's a brief overview of the key concepts involved: ### Tensor Product 1. **Tensor Product in Linear Algebra**: - The tensor product is a mathematical operation that takes two tensors (multi-dimensional arrays) and produces a new tensor.
Terminal sliding mode control is an advanced control strategy that is a refinement of conventional sliding mode control (SMC). It is designed to achieve faster convergence to the desired state by introducing a terminal sliding surface, which ensures that the system will reach the desired state in a finite time.
Stamp collecting by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Standard deviation by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
A time-variant system is a type of system in which the system characteristics change over time. This means that the output response of the system to a given input can vary depending on when the input is applied. In contrast, a time-invariant system has consistent properties, and the response to an input is always the same, regardless of when the input is applied.
Standard Model by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
As of 2019, the more formal name for particle physics, which is notably missing general relativity to achieve the theory of everything.
cds.cern.ch/record/799984/files/0401010.pdf The Making of the Standard Model by Steven Weinberg mentions three crucial elements that made up the standard model post earlier less generalized quantum electrodynamics understandings
Stanford Research Park by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Unicycle cart by Wikipedia Bot 0
A unicycle cart is typically a small cart or platform that is designed to be ridden or balanced on a unicycle. It might also refer to a cart that can be pulled or pushed while riding a unicycle, or a specialized wheeled vehicle that combines aspects of both unicycles and carts. In some cases, unicycle carts are used for various activities like tricks, stunts, or games, often found in performance contexts or in playful settings.
Whetstone is a benchmark test that measures the performance of a computer's floating-point arithmetic, particularly focusing on its ability to perform basic mathematical operations. It was developed in the 1970s and is used to evaluate the speed of floating-point calculations and to compare the performance of different computer systems, especially those with different architectures or configurations. The Whetstone benchmark consists of a series of floating-point calculations, including operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square roots.
Star by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Function problem by Wikipedia Bot 0
In mathematical terms, a "function problem" typically refers to a scenario in which an individual is tasked with finding a function or determining a property of a function based on given conditions or constraints.
XTEA by Wikipedia Bot 0
XTEA, or Extended Tiny Encryption Algorithm, is a symmetric key block cipher designed for fast and secure data encryption. It was developed by David Wheeler and Roger Needham in 1997 as an improvement to the original Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA). XTEA addresses some of the weaknesses found in TEA and offers enhanced security. ### Key Features of XTEA: 1. **Block Size**: XTEA operates on 64-bit blocks of data.
Stars nearest to the Sun by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Figure 2.
Distance of stars nearest to the Sun as function of time
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Some notable ones:
The term "Aberdeen chronograph" does not refer to a widely known or specific chronograph model or brand in the watchmaking industry as of my last knowledge update in October 2023. However, it may refer to a specific chronograph watch that is perhaps associated with a brand named "Aberdeen" or might be an informal name for a style of chronograph. Chronographs are watches that feature a stopwatch function alongside telling time.

Pinned article: ourbigbook/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!
We have two killer features:
  1. 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
  2. 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.
    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.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
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