Monty Python and the Holy Grail Updated 2025-07-16
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The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
. Source. When a young Ciro Santilli played Worms Armageddon, he almost shat himself of laughter when he first threw a Holy Grenade. Little did he know it was actually a Monty Python reference.
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The Insulting Frenchman scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Ministry of Silly Walks
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Covariant derivative Updated 2025-07-16
A generalized definition of derivative that works on manifolds.
TODO: how does it maintain a single value even across different coordinate charts?
Coventry Updated 2025-07-16
csvkit Updated 2025-07-16
Lots of features, but slow because written in Python. A faster version may be csvtools. Also some annoyances like obtuse header handing and missing features like grep + cut in one go: csvgrep and select column in csvkit.
Multicellularity is polyphyletic Updated 2025-07-16
From Wikipedia:
Multicellularity has evolved independently at least 25 times in eukaryotes
and:
Complex multicellular organisms evolved only in six eukaryotic groups: animals, symbiomycotan fungi, brown algae, red algae, green algae, and land plants.
Cuisine Updated 2025-07-16
Cultured meat Updated 2025-07-16
This is something worth investigating!
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Inside the Quest to Make Lab Grown Meat by WIRED (2018)
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Interviews with a few startups in the area, most of the time with Eat Just.
youtu.be/QO9SS1NS6MM?t=217 taught Ciro Santilli something he really appreciated: uncanny valley.
Curie temperature Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1. . Source. This graph shows what happens when you approach the Curie temperature from below.
CuriousMarc Updated 2025-07-16
Mostly on vintage electronics. Lots of focus on microwave, which he has worked a lot with.
Has been going wild with restoration and reverse engineering of the Apollo moon mission.
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Inside the WILD Lab of CuriousMarc by Keysight Labs (2022)
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