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
French nuclear weapons program Updated 2025-07-16
A Show of Hands by Victor Wooten (1996) Updated 2025-07-16
OMG this is sick.
Full official album on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_myUBkJ0UJbkV7O1q-hg7ONxxGBLGz4SzU. so glad he managed to upload it...
Berkeley Software Distribution Updated 2025-07-16
Frame of reference Updated 2025-07-16
Golgi complex Updated 2025-07-16
Limiting factor Updated 2025-07-16
Anne Wojcicki Updated 2025-07-16
She's truly passionate about health research and keeping healthy, almost obsessed by it. Also she's strong willed, and energetic. Good traits for founding 23andMe.
- www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair Fantastic painting of the people.
As www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/style/anne-wojcicki-23andme-genetics.html puts it well:
The Wojcickis grew into Silicon Valley royalty. It’s the sort of family, Anne jokes, where “you’re only a viable fetus once you have your Ph.D.
Anne Wojcicki interview by Talks at Google (2018)
Source. She's athletic! As mentioned at: www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair. And despite the name, and unlike Sergey, she's completely american as seen from her perfect accent!- youtu.be/pDoALM0q1LA?t=173 coding on garage while they do dishes and burritos
- youtu.be/pDoALM0q1LA?t=331 why she's obsessed with healthcare. Also mentioned at: www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair how she was trying to save Sergei from some of his genetic predispositions
- youtu.be/pDoALM0q1LA?t=571 she really cared about 23andMe, but the public didn't as much as her. She's truly passionate about mining genetic data. Maybe she came a bit early.
- youtu.be/pDoALM0q1LA?t=1038 doc in a box workaround
Anomalous magnetic dipole moment Updated 2025-07-16
OurBigBook.com User acquisition Updated 2025-07-16
The general and ideal user acquisition is of course organic Googling:
- user does not understand his teacher's explanation of a subject
- user Googles into rare specific subject
- looks around, then login/create account with OAuth to leaves a comment or upvote
- notice that you can fork anything
- mind = KABOOM
However, before that point, it is very likely that Ciro will have to physically do some very hard and specific user acquisition work at some University. Maybe there is a more virtual way of achieving this.
This work will involve going through some open set of university lecture notes, and creating a superior version of them on OurBigBook.com, and somehow getting students to notice it and use it as a superior alternative to their crappy lecture notes.
Another very promising route is publishing the answers to old examination questions on the website. It is likely that we will be able to overcome any copyright issues by uploading only the answers to numbered questions. There is a minor risk that these would be considered derivative works of the copyrighted questions. But universities would have to be very anal to enforce a DMCA for that!!!
Getting in contact with students is an epic challenge, as an incredibly deep chasm separates us:
- it is basically impossible to try and approach teachers: how to convince teachers to use CC BY-SA
- and on the other hand, how will you get university students to trust you are not a pedophile and that you actually want to help them?The missing aspect is how to join their main "class communication group", e.g. a WhatsApp or Discord chat they have. That would be the perfect entry point to communicate with the end users. But that entry point is also generally closed exclusively for students, and sometimes lecturers, and will not accept anyone external.Perhaps Ciro would be able to do something with one of the two Universities he attended in the past: École Polytechnique or University of São Paulo. But there was no clear channel in those institutions for that. There is either an "infinitely noisy Facebook with everyone that bothered" or silence, deathly silence and isolation of no contact. The key hard part is getting a per-course granularity chat. Discord Student Hubs are a fantastic initiative in that area. Shame that Discord is an unusable mess with zero ways to select which notifications you care about: Section "Discord email notifications"!One approach method that shows some promise is to follow the Student societies, which often host open events of interest outside of work hours.
Walking with advertisement t-shirts mentioning specific course names in some university location is something Ciro seriously considers, that's how desperate things are. Watch out: docs.ourbigbook.com/#public-relations for T-shirt news!
Veritasium Updated 2025-07-16
Does have some gems worth looking at. But generally always too superficial as can be expected from any self-sufficient YouTubber.
My Life Story by Veritasium (2018)
Source. Basically a don't be a pussy story where he describes how he has always been passionate by both science and film making. Veritasium is a nice guy. Vibrato Updated 2025-07-16
Visual Studio Code Updated 2025-07-16
Basal (phylogenetics) Updated 2025-07-16
E.g. monotremes laying eggs did not evolve separately after function loss, it comes directly from reptiles.
Drug Updated 2025-07-16
Quote by Richard Feynman Updated 2025-07-16
System of partial differential equations Updated 2025-07-16
In many important applications, what you have to solve is not just a single partial differential equation, but multiple partial differential equations coupled to each other. This is the case for many key PDEs including:
Anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron Updated 2025-07-16
Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979) mentions it several times.
This was one of the first two great successes of quantum electrodynamics, the other one being the Lamb shift.
In youtu.be/UKbp85zpdcY?t=52 from freeman Dyson Web of Stories interview (1998) Dyson mentions that the original key experiment was from Kusch and Foley from Columbia University, and that in 1948, Julian Schwinger reached the correct value from his calculations.
Apparently first published at The Magnetic Moment of the Electron by Kusch and Foley (1948).
Bibliography:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-3LQhElvU Anomalous Magnetic Moment Of The Electron | One Loop Quantum Correction | Quantum Electrodynamics by Dietterich Labs (2019)
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