Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

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ChatGPT produces:Omid Kordestani - Joined in 1999 as Google’s first business hire, focusing on sales and revenue generation.

This is the one where French Nobel Prizes come from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_École_normale_supérieure_people#Nobel_laureates

As of 2025, you can check if someone with a given name was at polytechnique and at which year at: programmes.polytechnique.edu/en/about/ecole-polytechnique/list-of-graduates

The conventional starting point is not at the E. Coli K-12 MG1655 origin of replication.

biocyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE?type=EXTRAGENIC-SITE&object=G0-10506 explains:If it is a bit hard to understand what they mean by "origin of transfer" though, as that term is usually associated with the origin of transfer of bacterial conjugation.

Company co-founded by Scott Hassan, early Google programmer at Stanford University, and Carl Victor Page, Jr., Larry Page's older brother.

They were an email list management website, and became Yahoo! Groups after the acquisition.

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.

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

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)".

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This program did not have certain dynamic linking related sections because we linked it minimally with ld.

However, if you compile a C hello world with GCC 8.2:

some other interesting sections would appear.

For every continuous symmetry in the system (Lie group), there is a corresponding conservation law.

Furthermore, given the symmetry, we can calculate the derived conservation law, and vice versa.

As mentioned at buzzard.ups.edu/courses/2017spring/projects/schumann-lie-group-ups-434-2017.pdf, what the symmetry (Lie group) acts on (obviously?!) are the Lagrangian generalized coordinates. And from that, we immediately guess that manifolds are going to be important, because the generalized variables of the Lagrangian can trivially be Non-Euclidean geometry, e.g. the pendulum lives on an infinite cylinder.

Sections with sh_type == SHT_STRTAB are called string tables.

They hold a null separated array of strings.

Such sections are used by other sections when string names are to be used. The using section says:

So for example, we could have a string table containing:

The first byte must be a 0. TODO rationale?

And if another section wants to use the string d e f, they have to point to index 5 of this section (letter d).

Notable string table sections:

By default, NASM places a .symtab on the executable as well.

This is only used for debugging. Without the symbols, we are completely blind, and must reverse engineer everything.

You can strip it with objcopy, and the executable will still run. Such executables are called "stripped executables".

This book really tries to recall basic things to ensure that the reader will be able to understand the more advanced ones.

Sometimes it goes a little bit overboard, like defining what a function does several times.

But Ciro Santilli really prefers it when authors error on the side of obvious.

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).