Nobel Prize Updated 2025-07-16
Web of Stories contains amazing interviews with many (mostly American) winners.
See Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman chapter Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake's amazing comments about the Nobel Prize.
TODO who is the digital switch person he mentions?
- www.quora.com/unanswered/Who-was-Richard-Feynman-referring-to-in-the-book-Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman-chapter-Alfred-Nobels-Other-Mistake-when-he-talks-about-A-friend-of-mine-whos-a-rich-man-he-invented-some-kind-of-simple-digital-switch on Quora
- github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/72
Node.js Updated 2025-07-16
WellSync, if you are gonna useSync this wonky language thing inSync one place, you might as well useSync it everywhereSync and make it more decent. See also: how to convert
async to sync in JavaScript.Their CLI debugger is a bit crap compared to GDB, basic functionality is either lacking or too verbose:Documentation at: nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/debugger.html
- stackoverflow.com/questions/65493221/how-to-break-at-a-specific-function-or-line-with-the-node-js-node-inspect-comman
- stackoverflow.com/questions/70486188/how-to-break-on-uncaught-exception-on-the-node-js-node-inspect-command-line-debu Some operations are only possible on the browser debug UI...
Effective field theory Updated 2025-07-16
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB8r7CU7clk&list=PLUl4u3cNGP60TvpbO5toEWC8y8w51dtvm by Iain Stewart. Basically starts by explaining how quantum field theory is so generic that it is hard to get any numerical results out of it :-)
eGroups Updated 2025-07-16
Company co-founded by Scott Hassan, early Google programmer at Stanford University, and Carl Victor Page, Jr., Larry Page's older brother.
The company was sold to Yahoo! in August 2000 for $432m and became Yahoo! Groups. They managed to miraculously dodge the Dot-com bubble, which mostly poppet in 2021. After the acquisition, Yahoo started to redirect them to: groups.yahoo.com as can be seen on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20000401000000*/egroups.com The first archive of groups.yahoo.com is from February 2001: web.archive.org/web/20010202055100/http://groups.yahoo.com/ and it unsurprisingly looks basically exactly like eGroups.
eGroups logo
. From the earliest archive of their "about" page: web.archive.org/web/19991004062653/http://www.egroups.com/info/top.html in 1999. Electronic test equipment Updated 2025-07-16
Electron microscope Updated 2025-07-16
All of them need a vacuum because you can't shoot elecrons through air, as mentioned at Video "50,000,000x Magnification by AlphaPhoenix (2022)".
Electrum Updated 2025-07-16
For the love of God, on Ubuntu install from the official AppImage downloaded from electrum.org/#download, not this random outdated Snap snapcraft.io/electrum:
ELF Hello World Tutorial Backlinks Updated 2025-07-16
ELF Hello World Tutorial Dynamic linking sections Updated 2025-07-16
Butterfly dream Updated 2025-07-16
Chapter 2 paragraph 14:
Formerly, I, Zhuang Zhou, dreamt that I was a butterfly, a butterfly flying about, feeling that it was enjoying itself. I did not know that it was Zhou. Suddenly I awoke, and was myself again, the veritable Zhou. I did not know whether it had formerly been Zhou dreaming that he was a butterfly, or it was now a butterfly dreaming that it was Zhou. But between Zhou and a butterfly there must be a difference. This is a case of what is called the Transformation of Things.'
C3 Oxford physics course Updated 2025-07-16
- web.archive.org/web/20170907092044/http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/students/course-materials/c3-condensed-matter-major-option it wasn't paywalled in the past up to 2017, but later became. Bastards.
- www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/page/2011/10/04/c3-intro-vacprobs17-41753.pdf gives the 2016 structure:
- Crystal Structure & Dynamics 10 lectures Dr Roger Johnston
- Band Theory 10 lectures Prof Michael Johnston
- Magnetism 7 lectures Prof Radu Coldea
- Optical Properties 6 lectures Prof Laura Herz
- Superconductivity 7 lectures Dr Peter Leek and Dr Amalia Coldea. web.archive.org/web/20170912021658/http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/page/2011/10/04/cmpsc-handout-2017-41006.pdf
Cabbage (Csound) Updated 2025-07-16
Caenorhabditis elegans Updated 2025-07-16
- www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(16)30120-X
- www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(16)30151-X A Genome-Scale Database and Reconstruction of Caenorhabditis elegans Metabolism Gebauer, Juliane et al. Cell Systems , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , 312 - 322
Caesium standard Updated 2025-07-16
Uses the frequency of the hyperfine structure of caesium-133 ground state, i.e spin up vs spin down of its valence electron , to define the second.
International System of Units definition of the second since 1967, because this is what atomic clocks use.
TODO why does this have more energy than the hyperfine split of the hydrogen line given that it is further from the nucleus?
Cambridge Updated 2025-07-16
The city appear to exist there because it was a convenient crossing of the Cam. It also lies near the start of the ancient navigable section TODO towards north or south? Castle hill also offered a convenient fortification location near the river, and is part of the reason for the early Roman settlement. The original bridge was presumably in the current Magnalene bridge, just under the castle hill.
TODO why did the University of Oxford scholars flee to after the The hanging of the clerks in 1209? Why not anywhere else?
Can ISPs deanonymize Tor users based on timestamps of public posts? Updated 2025-07-16
Can't get you out of my head by Adam Curtis (2021) Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli was touched by this, and then watched several other documentaries by Curtis.
Notably the part of the governments have lost all power to companies, and can't do anything meaningful anymore to actually represent the people, because globalization reduces the power of governments.
Capital flight Updated 2025-07-16
Carl Zeiss AG Updated 2025-07-16
Carl Zeiss, Explained by Asianometry (2021)
Source. Caroline Ellison Updated 2025-07-16
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