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Actual section at: Section "OurBigBook.com"

This is a major feature: we have now started to inject the following buttons next to every single pre-rendered header:

This crucial feature makes it clear to every new user that every single header has its own separate metadata, which is a crucial idea of the website.

Limited the number of articles, and the size of article bodies. This, together with the reCAPTCHA setup from Email verification and reCAPTCHA signup protection should prevent the most basic types of denial-of-service attacks by filling up our database.

The limits can be increased by admin users from the web UI, and will be done generously when it is evident that it is not a DoS attack. Admin users are also a recently added feature.

Amazing graphs and formulas.

Python graphics engine open sourced at: github.com/3b1b/manim "Animation engine for explanatory math videos". But for some reason there is a community fork: github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ "This repository is maintained by the Manim Community, and is not associated with Grant Sanderson or 3Blue1Brown in any way (though we are definitely indebted to him for providing his work to the world). If you want to study how Grant makes his videos, head over to his repository (3b1b/manim). This is a more frequently updated repository than that one, and is recommended if you want to use Manim for your own projects." what a mess.

It would be really cool to have a PageRank-link algorithm that answers the key questions:However, Ciro has decided to leave this for phase two action plan, because it is impossible to tune such an algorithm if you have no users or test data.

Perhaps it is also worth looking into ExpertRank, they appear to do some kind of "expert in this area", but with clustering (unlike us, where the clustering would be more explicit).

Other dump of things worth looking into:

Funding:

Output 0 does:where the large constant is an interesting inscription to test for the presence of XSS attacks on blockchain explorers:This is almost spendable with:but that fails because the altstack is cleared between the input and the output script, so this output is provably unspendable.

Bibliography:

In this malformed Coinbase transaction, the mining pool "nicehash" produced a provably unspendable Bitcoin output script due to a bug, and therefore lost most of the entire block reward of 6.25 BTC then worth about $ 123,000.

The output is unspendable because it ends in a constant 0, the disassembly of the first and main output is this series of constants:and for the second smaller one:the third one being an OP_RETURN message.

This event received some coverage:

Aaron, Ciro Santilli will complete your quest to make eduction free. Just legally this time, with the and with the Creative Commons license you helped to create.

Ciro likes how The Internet's Own Boy (2014) explains how Aaron felt like high school was bullshit, and that he could learn whatever he wanted from books, which is one of Ciro's key feelings.

It also mentions how he was a natural teacher from a very early age.

Standard from 2011: abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1

A decent way to write diatonic music as plaintext!

Conversion to MIDI with abcmidi.

No bend/vibratto/slides :-(

Multitrack volatile: abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1#multiple_voices

Easily classified as the direct product of cyclic groups of prime order.

Once Ciro Santilli played Suwu herding sheep while his mother in law was around, and she quickly pointed out:He's very popular!

And also a composer, e.g. he composed Reflections of the Moon on Erquan.

It is just mind blowing that Christians, Muslims and Jews can have so many conflicts considering that their religions are basically the same. Uncanny valley comes to mind. See also remarks at: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/zhong-gong

The transfiguration of Jesus is a notable example where Jesus/the Church tries to divert older religions into him. And then Muhammad does the same during isra and Mi'raj, and meets up with Jesus, John the Baptist and Abraham. The Kaaba was also clearly an earlier place of worship of local religions before Muhammad. But of course, Abraham was one of the builders of the Kaaba, so all good.

Bibliography:

Somewhat midway between a syllabary and an alphabet: you write out consonants, and vowels are "punctuation-like-modifiers".

E.g.: the main Hindi script (devanagari) and most other Indian languages.