pip (package manager) Updated +Created
How many stupid bugs. How many stupid bugs do we need to face???
Quantum Information course of the University of Oxford Hilary 2023 Updated +Created
This section is about the version of the course offerece on Hilary term 2023 (January).
2006 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated +Created
A Mathematician's Apology Updated +Created
With major mathematicians holding ideas such as:
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. [...] It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.
it is not surprise that the state of STEM education is so shit as of 2020, especially at the the missing link between basic and advanced! This also implies that the number of people that can appreciate any advanced mathematics research is tiny, and consequently so is the funding.
Analog computer Updated +Created
Some of the earlier computers of the 20th centure were analog computers, not digital.
At some point analog died however, and "computer" basically by default started meaning just "digital computer".
As of the 2010's and forward, with the limit of Moore's law and the rise of machine learning, people have started looking again into analog computing as a possile way forward. A key insight is that huge floating point precision is not that crucial in many deep learning applications, e.g. many new digital designs have tried 16-bit floating point as opposed to the more traditional 32-bit minium. Some papers are even looking into 8-bit: dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3327757.3327866
As an example, the Lightmatter company was trying to implement silicon photonics-based matrix multiplication.
A general intuition behind this type of development is that the human brain, the holy grail of machine learning, is itself an analog computer.
Blockchain.info Updated +Created
TODO who owns it? Are they reliable?
This helper dumps a transaction JSON to a binary:
bitcoin-tx-out-scripts() (
    # Dump data contained in out scripts. Remove first 3 last 2 bytes of
    # standard transaction boilerplate.
    h="$1"
    echo curl "https://blockchain.info/tx/${h}?format=json" |
    jq '.out[].script' tmp.json |
    sed 's/"76a914//;s/88ac"//' |
    xxd -r -p > "${h}.bin"
)
Their API limit witout key is 1 query per 10 seconds!!!
Provably quantum secure encryption algorithm Updated +Created
None known as of 2020.
Recombination (cosmology) Updated +Created
Type of processor Updated +Created
Abortion Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli is for abortion rights of women, until very late in pregnancy.
But it's not something that he would do himself, unless under extreme cases.
Collected Papers On Wave Mechanics by Deans (1928) Updated +Created
Published on Nature at www.nature.com/articles/122990a0 and therefore still paywalled there as of 2023, it's ridiculous.
In 2024 it will fall into the public domain in the US.
Finite projective linear group Updated +Created
for loop Updated +Created
The for loop is a subcase of the while loop.
One theoretical motivation for its existence is that it has the fundamental property that we are immediately certain it will terminate, unlike while loops with arbitrary conditions.
Primitive recursive functions are the complexity class that divides those two.
Hebrew Bible division Updated +Created
Justin Helps Updated +Created
Creator of Primer
youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Primer gives real identity:
Feels exactly the background you'd expect: disilusioned by the educational system, and working to make education better! Great guy! Reminds Ciro Santilli of himself a bit.
Law of triviality Updated +Created
Personality Updated +Created
Priory bicycles Updated +Created
Quantum algorithm by problem Updated +Created
Self-publishing website Updated +Created

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