Mind blown by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
The Universe I, II & III | Tim and Eric Awesome Show by Adult Swim UK (2017)
Source. This amazing video contains the best mind blown meme ever, Ciro Santilli almost shat himself when he first watched it.
Milk chocolate by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Military doctrine of the United States by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Midnight mass (miniseries) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
A bit over the top, but convincing enough. A crypto-vampire show.
Middle Ages by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Microprocessor development board by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Micro Bit getting started by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
When plugged into Ubuntu 22.04 via the USB Micro-B the Micro Bit mounts as:
/media/$USER/MICROBIT/
e.g.:
/media/ciro/MICROBIT/
for username ciro.
Loading the program is done by simply copying a .hex binary into the image e.g. with:
cp ~/Downloads/microbit_program.hex /media/$USER/MICROBIT/
The file name does not matter, only the .hex extension.
The back power light flashes while upload is happening.
Flashing takes about 10-15 seconds for the 1.8 MB scroll display hello world from microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.1/tutorials/hello.html:
from microbit import *
display.scroll("Hello, World!")
and the program starts executing immediately after flash ends.
You can restart the program by clicking the reset button near the USB. When you push down the program dies, and it restarts as soon as you release the button.
Mathematics illustration software by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Many plotting software can be used to create mathematics illustrations. They just tend to have more data-oriented rather than explanatory-oriented output.
Matter.js by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
To run the demos locally, tested on Ubuntu 22.10:
git clone https://github.com/liabru/matter-js
cd matter-js
git checkout 0.19.0
npm install
npm run dev
and this opens up the demos on the browser.
Matter wave by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Intel Research by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
"Intel Research Lablets", that's a terrible name.
Maxima and minima by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Given a function :
we want to find the points of the domain of where the value of is smaller (for minima, or larger for maxima) than all other points in some neighbourhood of .
In the case of Functionals, this problem is treated under the theory of the calculus of variations.
Meal deal by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
x.com/Birdyword/status/1777591446612193667
A while ago a Singaporean taxi driver asked me what a UK hawker centre lunch might cost. I explained that there aren't any. He asked what office workers ate, and I explained the concept of Meal deals. And he looked at me with such a powerful combination of pity and revulsion.
Singaporean taxi drivers are the cutest.
Chinese Communist Party by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Measurement-based quantum computer by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
TODO confirm: apparently in the paradigm you can choose to measure only certain output qubits.
This makes things irreversible (TODO what does reversibility mean in this random context?), as opposed to Circuit-based quantum computer where you measure all output qubits at once.
TODO what is the advantage?
Meet-in-the-middle algorithm by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
The algorithmic trick that solves Rubik's Cubes and breaks ciphers by polylog (2022)
Source.
Memento mori by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
Braque Family Triptych
. Source.
Figure 2.
"Vanitas" by Philippe de Champaigne (c. 1671)
Source.

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
    .
    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