Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Updated 2025-07-16
Used to identify organic compounds.
Seems to be based on the effects that electrons around the nuclei (shielding electrons) have on the outcome of NMR.
So it is a bit unlike MRI where you are interested in the position of certain nuclei in space (of course, these being atoms, you can't see their positions in space).
What's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by Bruker Corporation (2020)
Source. Good 3D animations showing the structure of the NMR machine. We understand that it is very bulky largely due to the cryogenic system. It then talks a bit about organic compound identification by talking about ethanol, i.e. this is NMR spectroscopy, but it is a bit too much to follow closely. Basically the electron configuration alters the nuclear response somehow, and allows identifying functional groups. Nu (letter) Updated 2025-07-16
Representation theory of the Lorentz group Updated 2025-07-16
Physics from Symmetry by Jakob Schwichtenberg (2015) page 66 shows one in terms of 4x4 complex matrices.
More importantly though, are the representations of the Lie algebra of the Lorentz group, which are generally also just also called "Representation of the Lorentz group" since you can reach the representation from the algebra via the exponential map.
Bibliography:
- Physics from Symmetry by Jakob Schwichtenberg (2015) chapter 3.7 "The Lorentz Group O (1, 3)"
clang Updated 2025-07-16
Coulomb gauge Updated 2025-07-16
Alternative to the Lorentz gauge, but less used in general as it is not as nice for relativity invariance.
Linus Torvalds Updated 2025-07-16
Lorentz boost Updated 2025-07-16
Lorentz invariant Updated 2025-07-16
Pornographic film Updated 2025-07-16
To talk about something without giving the real name to not scare off the audience Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli hates it when an expert does this!!!
If you estimate that the audience won't know the name of the concept, that's fine, do explain it as well.
But you must also give the name!!!
This also manifests itself when news outlets omit foreign names from headlines, notably Chinese, but likely happens to all non-european languages too.
Josephson constant Updated 2025-07-16
The inverse of the magnetic flux quantum.
LLVM Intermediate Representation Updated 2025-07-16
Very hot stuff! It's like ISA-portable assembly, but with types! In particular it also it deals with calling conventions for us (since it is ISA-portable). TODO: isn't that exactly what C does? :-) LLVM IR vs C
Documentation: llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html
Get Bitcoin transaction id from position in dat file Updated 2025-07-16
This would allow us to index inscriptions in the .dat files directly with fast C tools, and then retrive the transaction ID to get cleaner data and metadata.
It should be possible if we managed to take the information from bitcoindev.network/understanding-the-data/ and dump into an indexed SQLite database.
I tried to start things off with LevelDBDumper:but that consumed all 64 GB of RAM on P51... github.com/mdawsonuk/LevelDBDumper/issues/15
LevelDBDumper -d ~/snap/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin/indexes/txindex -f btc.csv -q -o . -t csv
Kaon Updated 2025-07-16
One strange quark bound with one up quark or a down quark. 6 combinations exist, 4 if we consider antiparticles the same as particles.
Micrometer Updated 2025-07-16
Renormalization Updated 2025-07-16
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | 11. Renormalization by Sean Carroll (2020)
Source. Gives a very quick and high level overview of renormalization. It is not enough to satisfy Ciro Santilli as usual for other Sean Carroll videos, but it goes some way. Alternative splicing Updated 2025-07-16
Angstrom Updated 2025-07-16
Josephson voltage standard Updated 2025-07-16
The most practical/precise volt standard.
It motivated the definition of the ampere in the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units
The wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_voltage_standard contains amazing schematics of the device, apparently made by the US Government.
- youtu.be/VoRab8U2eS0?t=354 the desired output voltage is 10V
- youtu.be/VoRab8U2eS0?t=475 lists the three most commonly used 10V implementations currently:
- youtu.be/6pgGNJby1lw?t=296 gives the experimental setup used to compare two different references. Notably it involves a nanovoltmeter
Mind blown Updated 2025-07-16
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