Haascope Updated 2025-07-16
By Andy Haas, an experimental particle physics professor: as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/andy-haas.html What an awesome dude!
Shimano product lines Updated 2025-07-16
Overview of Shimano brands 2018: www.evanscycles.com/coffeestop/advice/the-complete-guide-to-shimanos-mountain-bike-groupsets-and-their-hierarchy
- Shimano Altus RD-M310: almost cheapest MTB
- Shimano Acera RD-M360: second cheapest MTB
- Shimano Alivio RD-M410: third cheapest MTB
- Shimano Claris: entry 8-speed road bike www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFQDDg6Wt0
- Shimano Sora: 9-speed road bike bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/sora-r3000.html
- Shimano Tiagra: 10-speed road bike bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/tiagra-4700.html
- Shimano Deore: non-shitty MTB, in increasing performance: M610, M6000, M7000, ...)
- Shimano Tourney; commuter, likely the shittiest of all lines: bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/tourney.html
Annapurna Labs Updated 2025-07-16
Page contains a good summary of their hardware to date. They seem to still be the centerpiece of silicon development. There are still however people outside of Israel doing it, e.g.: www.linkedin.com/in/laurasharpless/ says as of 2021:
My team develops software for our next-generation Machine Learning accelerators: HAL, firmware, and SoC models.
2021: networking chip reports emerge: www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2021/3/30/22358633/amazon-reportedly-custom-network-switch-silicon-aws, presumably contesting with the likes of Cisco?
2018 onwards: Amazon AI accelerator silicon.
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Linux Updated 2025-07-16
From a technical point of view, it can do anything that Microsoft Windows can. Except being forcefully installed on every non-MacOS 2019 computer you can buy.
Ciro Santilli's conversion to Linux happened around 2012, and was a central part of Ciro Santilli's Open Source Enlightenment, since it fundamentally enables the discovery and contribution to open source software. Because what awesome open source person would waste time porting their amazing projects to closed source OSes?
Linux should track glibc and POSIX command line utilities in-tree like BSD Operating System, otherwise people have no way to get the thing running in the first place without blobs or large out-of-tree scripts! Another enlightened soul who agrees.
Particularly interesting in the history of Linux is how it won out over the open competitors that were coming up in the time: MINIX (see the chat) and BSD Operating System that got legally bogged down at the critical growth moment.
You must watch this: truth Happens advertisement by Red Hat.
xkcd 619: Supported Features
. Source. This perfectly illustrates Linux development. First features that matter. Then useless features.Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs by Epic Rap Battles of History (2012)
Source. Just stop whatever you are doing, and watch this right now. "I'm on Linux, bitch, I thought you GNU". Fandom explanations. It is just a shame that the Bill Gates actor looks absolutely nothing like the real gates. Actually, the entire Gates/Jobs parts are good, but not genial. But the Linux one is. Open educational resources Updated 2025-07-16
Optimization software Updated 2025-07-16
Password manager Updated 2025-07-16
A cross browser, cross platform, and server-encrypted password manager is a must after Snowden!!! E.g. Proton Pass. And governments should obviously provide one to its citizens, or else be spied upon by the USA obviously: Governments should provide basic Internet infrastructure.
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Value function Updated 2025-07-16
The function being maximized in a optimization problem.
Field (physics) Updated 2025-07-16
Quantum Field Theory lecture notes by David Tong (2007) puts it well:This is also mentioned e.g. at Video "The Quantum Experiment that ALMOST broke Locality by The Science Asylum (2019)".
In classical physics, the primary reason for introducing the concept of the field is to construct laws of Nature that are local. The old laws of Coulomb and Newton involve "action at a distance". This means that the force felt by an electron (or planet) changes immediately if a distant proton (or star) moves. This situation is philosophically unsatisfactory. More importantly, it is also experimentally wrong. The field theories of Maxwell and Einstein remedy the situation, with all interactions mediated in a local fashion by the field.
Fixation (histology) Updated 2025-07-16
Free and open-source software Updated 2025-07-16
A more precise term for those in the know: open source software that also has a liberal license, for some definition of liberal.
Ciro Santilli defines liberal as: "can be commercialized without paying anything back" (but possibly subject to other restrictions).
He therefore does not consider Creative Commons licenses with NC to be FOSS.
For the newbs, the term open source software is good enough, since most open source software is also FOSS.
French company Updated 2025-07-16
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