The artistic instrument that enables the ultimate art: coding, See also: Section "The art of programming".
Unlike other humans, computers are mindless slaves that do exactly what they are told to, except for occasional cosmic ray bit flips. Until they take over the world that is.
Steve Jobs talking about the Internet (1995)
Source. The web is incredibly exciting, because it is the fulfillment of a lot of our dreams, that the computer would ultimately primarily not be a device for computation, but [sic] metamorphisize into a device for communication.
Secondly it exciting because Microsoft doesn't own it, and therefore there is a tremendous amount of innovation happening.
Computers basically have two applications:Generally, the smaller a computer, the more it gets used for communication rather than computing.
- computation
- communication. Notably, computers through the Internet allow for modes of communication where:
- both people don't have to be on the same phone line at the exact same time, a server can relay your information to other people
- anyone can broadcast information easily and for almost free, again due to servers being so good at handling that
The early computers were large and expensive, and basically only used for computing. E.g. ENIAC was used for calculating ballistic tables.
Communication only came later, and it was not obvious to people at first how incredibly important that role would be.
This is also well illustrated in the documentary Glory of the Geeks. Full interview at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZAJY23xio. It is apparently known as the "Lost Interview" and it was by Cringely himself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfgwCFrU7dI for his Triumph of the Nerds documentary.
Looking for formats that:
- are human readable plaintext files
- can be converted/played as MIDI
- can be converted to sheet music PDFs
- supports basic guitar effects (bends and slides)
Harvard University + MIT combo.
As of 2022:Fuck that.
Also, they have an ICP.
November 2023 course search:
- Condensed matter: 4 hits, so not too bad
- quantum field theory: no hits
How to use an Oxford Nanopore MinION to extract DNA from river water and determine which bacteria live in it DNA extraction Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
What makes Ciro especially mad when programming is not the hard things.
Especially when you are already a few levels of "simple problems" down from your original goal, and another one of them shows up.
This is basically the cause of Hofstadter's law.
But of course, it is because it is hard that it feels amazing when you achieve your goal.
The courses are highly open, almost everything is given publicly except solutions, many of which are given to teachers only. Well done!
Past exam papers index: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/exams/pastpapers/
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/
- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/part1a.html year 1
- Michaelmas term
- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Databases/
- past exams:
- questions: public www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/exams/pastpapers/t-Databases.html
- solutions: paywalled
- slides: public e.g. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Databases/djg-materials/databases_2223_1to4-B.pdf
- problem sheets:
- questions: public e.g. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Databases/djg-materials/supervision-1.html
- solutions: not available
- past exams:
- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Databases/
- Lent term
- Discrete mathematics
- problem sheets:
- question: public e.g. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/DiscMath/solutions/DiscMaths1_Sols.pdf
- solutions: public e.g. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/DiscMath/solutions/DiscMaths1_Sols.pdf
- problem sheets:
- ALgorithms 1
- lecture notes: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Algorithm1/2022-2023-stajano-algs1-handout.pdf
- problem sheet:
- questions: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Algorithm1/2022-2023-stajano-algs1-exercises.pdf
- solutions: not available
- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Algorithm1/
- Discrete mathematics
- Michaelmas term
Computer science masters course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
Concurrent programming course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
Not to be confused with algebra over a field, which is a particular algebraic structure studied within algebra.
Condensed matter physics is one of the best examples of emergence. We start with a bunch of small elements which we understand fully at the required level (atoms, electrons, quantum mechanics) but then there are complex properties that show up when we put a bunch of them together.
Includes fun things like:
As of 2020, this is the other "fundamental branch of physics" besides to particle physics/nuclear physics.
Condensed matter is basically chemistry but without reactions: you study a fixed state of matter, not a reaction in which compositions change with time.
Just like in chemistry, you end up getting some very well defined substance properties due to the incredibly large number of atoms.
Just like chemistry, the ultimate goal is to do de-novo computational chemistry to predict those properties.
And just like chemistry, what we can actually is actually very limited in part due to the exponential nature of quantum mechanics.
Also since chemistry involves reactions, chemistry puts a huge focus on liquids and solutions, which is the simplest state of matter to do reactions in.
Condensed matter however can put a lot more emphasis on solids than chemistry, notably because solids are what we generally want in end products, no one likes stuff leaking right?
One thing condensed matter is particularly obsessed with is the fascinating phenomena of phase transition.
What Is Condensed matter physics? by Erica Calman
. Source. Cute. Overview of the main fields of physics research. Quick mention of his field, quantum wells, but not enough details. Connect two computers directly without a router with an Ethernet cable Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
For IP-level communication, askubuntu.com/questions/22835/how-to-network-two-ubuntu-computers-using-ethernet-without-a-router/116680#116680 just worked between P51 and P14s both on Ubuntu 23.10 connected with a regular Cat 5e cable.
On both machines, first we found the Ethernet cable interface name with the which outputs on the P41s:so the interface was
ip CLI tool:ip a1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp1s0f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether fc:5c:ee:24:fb:b4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 04:7b:cb:cc:1b:10 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.123/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp2s0
valid_lft 61284sec preferred_lft 61284sec
inet6 fe80::3597:15d8:74ff:e112/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft foreverenp1s0f0, because wlp is wireless and lo is localhost.So on the P14s we assign an IP of 10.0.0.10 to the P51:
sudo ip address add 10.0.0.10/24 dev enp1s0f0Then on the P51 analogously, giving IP of 10.0.0.20 to the P14s:
sudo ip address add 10.0.0.20/24 dev enp0s31f6And after that, P14s can:and P51 can:
ping 10.0.0.10ping 10.0.0.20 There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.