Can a smartphone's PIN or password be brute-forced in an offline attack? Updated 2025-07-16
Inward Bound by Abraham Pais (1988) Updated 2025-07-16
The book unfortunately does not cover the history of quantum mechanics very, the author specifically says that this will not be covered, the focus is more on particles/forces. But there are still some mentions.
Is fog computing more efficient than cloud computing? Updated 2025-07-16
Advantages of fog: there is only one, reusing hardware that would be otherwise idle.
Disadvantages:
- in cloud, you can put your datacenter on the location with the cheapest possible power. On fog you can't.
- on fog there is some waste due to network communication.
- you will likely optimize code less well because you might be targeting a wide array of different types of hardware, so more power (and time) wastage. Furthermore, some of the hardware used will not not be optimal for the task, e.g. CPU instead of GPU.
All of this makes Ciro Santilli doubtful if it wouldn't be more efficient for volunteers simply to donate money rather than inefficient power usage.
Bibliography:
- greenfoldingathome.com/2018/05/28/is-foldinghome-a-waste-of-electricity/: useless article, does not compare to centralize, asks if folding the proteins is worth the power usage...
I should have loved biology by James Somers Updated 2025-07-16
This resonates a lot with Ciro Santilli's ideas!
- physics and the illusion of life
- physics education needs more focus on understanding experiments and their history:
- Education is broken
- molecular biology feels like systems programming
I've never come across a subject so fractal in its complexity. It reminds me of computing that way.
Isidor Isaac Rabi Updated 2025-07-16
He was a leading figure at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and later he was head at the Columbia University laboratory that carried out the crucial Lamb-Retherford experiment and the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron published at The Magnetic Moment of the Electron by Kusch and Foley (1948) using related techniques.
Annus Mirabilis papers Updated 2025-07-16
Anti-cancer mechanism Updated 2025-07-16
Antipodal point Updated 2025-07-16
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Updated 2025-07-16
Ising model Updated 2025-07-16
Toy model of matter that exhibits phase transition in dimension 2 and greater. It does not provide numerically exact results by itself, but can serve as a tool to theorize existing and new phase transitions.
As mentioned at: stanford.edu/~jeffjar/statmech/intro4.html some systems which can be seen as modelled by it include:
- the spins direction (up or down) of atoms in a magnet, which can undergo phase transitions depending on temperature as that characterized by the Curie temperature and an externally applied magnetic fieldNeighboring spins like to align, which lowers the total system energy.
- the type of atom at a lattice point in a 2-metal alloy, e.g. Fe-C (e.g. steel). TODO: intuition for the neighbor interaction? What likes to be with what? And aren't different phases in different crystal structures?
Also has some funky relations to renormalization TODO.
Bibliography:
The Ising Model in Python by Mr. P Solver
. Source. The dude is crushing it on a Jupyter Notebook. Islamic sect Updated 2025-07-16
Isolation (database systems) Updated 2025-07-16
Determines what can or cannot happen when multiple queries are running in parallel.
See Section "SQL transaction isolation level" for the most common context under which this is discussed: SQL.
Isometry group Updated 2025-07-16
The group of all transformations that preserve some bilinear form, notable examples:
- orthogonal group preserves the inner product
- unitary group preserves a Hermitian form
- Lorentz group preserves the Minkowski inner product
Apostle not in the Twelve Updated 2025-07-16
Application of matrix multiplication Updated 2025-07-16
Application of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution Updated 2025-07-16
edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/48089/course/section/16461/qsp_chapter7-boltzman.pdf mentions
- sedimentation
- reaction rate as it calculates how likely it is for particles to overcome the activation energy
Isomorphism Updated 2025-07-16
Something analogous to a group isomorphism, but that preserves whatever properties the given algebraic object has. E.g. for a field, we also have to preserve multiplication in addition to addition.
Other common examples include isomorphisms of vector spaces and field. But since both of those two are much simpler than groups in classification, as they are both determined by number of elements/dimension alone, see:
we tend to not talk about isomorphisms so much in those contexts.
Cancer is natural selection gone wrong Updated 2025-07-16
A cool thought about cancer expressed at Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006) is that cancer it is the direct product of natural selection gone wrong!
Cancer cells are obviously selected against anti-cancer mechanism, which when they manage to evade, they reproduce uncontrollably, gaining more and more momentum.
ISO SQL TRIGGER syntax Updated 2025-07-16
PostgreSQL requires you to define a SQL stored procedure: stackoverflow.com/questions/28149494/is-it-possible-to-create-trigger-without-execute-procedure-in-postgresql Their syntax may be standard compliant, not sure about the
EXECUTE part. Their docs: www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtrigger.htmlSQLite does not support SQL stored procedures at all, so maybe that's why they can't be standard compliant here: stackoverflow.com/questions/3335162/creating-stored-procedure-in-sqlite
SQL:1999 11.38 covers "Trigger definition". The Abstract syntax tree starts with the
CREATE TRIGGER and ends in:<triggered SQL statement> ::=
<SQL procedure statement>This is defined at 13.5 "SQL procedure statement", but that is humongous and I'm not sure what it is at all.
Application-specific integrated circuit Updated 2025-07-16
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