Tensor product in quantum computing Updated 2025-07-16
We don't need to understand a super generalized version of tensor products to know what they mean in basic quantum computing!
Intuitively, taking a tensor product of two qubits simply means putting them together on the same quantum system/computer.
The quantum state is called a separable state, because it can be written as a single product of two different qubits. We have simply brought two qubits together, without making them interact.
If we then add a CNOT gate to make a Bell state:we can now see that the Bell state is non-separable: we've made the two qubits interact, and there is no way to write this state with a single tensor product. The qubits are fundamentally entangled.
Wealth tax Updated 2025-07-16
Obviously coupled with measures to prevent capital flight. This would be a required step to achieve Ciro Santilli's dream of unconditional basic income.
Why don't the poor vote in mass for it is incomprehensible considering e.g. the wealth inequality in the United States as of 2020!
Perhaps the election of Donald Trump in 2016 woke up the democrats at last, that they were just making empty promises without actually benefiting the poor? www.vox.com/2019/3/19/18240377/estate-tax-wealth-tax-70-percent-warren-sanders-aoc. Or is just another facade?
Bibliography:
- www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a-wealth-tax-is-such-a-good-idea-why-did-europe-kill-theirs If a Wealth Tax is Such a Good Idea, Why Did Europe Kill Theirs?
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzonR81vVzM The Mayfair Set, Episode 2 - Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V. (1999) by Adam Curtis explains nicely how in the 60's, Jim Slater bought stock of inefficient companies, and sold off inefficient assets to make a profit.He managed to do that because previously people had regarded those companies as family companies, and never looked into the fact that they families weren't actually majority shareholders anymore.While this increased efficiency, it also fired many people, and the government didn't manage to change legislation fast enough to tax those profits to increase welfare.
E. Coli K-12 MG1655 gene ytdX Updated 2025-07-16
The "last" gene, and also an E. Coli K-12 MG1655 gene of unknown function.
K-pop Updated 2025-07-16
Aether drag hypothesis Updated 2025-07-16
Given experiments such as the Fizeau experiment and the Michelson-Morley experiment that couldn't really detect the Earth's movement across aether, people started to wonder if the Earth wasn't dragging the luminiferous aether.
Term of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16
Each term has 8 weeks, and the week number is often used to denote the time at which something happens.
Week 0 is also often used to denote the week before classes officially start. This is especially important in the first term of the year (Michaelmas term) where people are coming back to school and meeting old and new friends.
At the end of the year, after Trinity term, students have exams. These basically account for all of the grades. In certain courses such as the Physics course of the University of Oxford, there is only new material on Michaelmas term and Hilary term, Trinity term being revision-only. So you can imagine that during Trinity term, students are going to be on edge.
Bibliography:
- cherwell.org/2023/11/10/oxfords-term-structure-needs-to-change-heres-why-it-wont/ some criticism of the term organization on Cherwell because the terms are too short which increases student pressure to learn fast
Terrorist attack Updated 2025-07-16
Electron holography Updated 2025-07-16
Electronic design automation phase Updated 2025-07-16
Labour law Updated 2025-07-16
Text-based game Updated 2025-07-16
Although Ciro Santilli is a big fan of plaintext files and of Vim, not so for games. Games must be easy to understand since they are just a toy.
Tilesets to the rescue!
Superconducting qubits are bad because of fabrication variation Updated 2025-07-16
However superconducting qubits have a limit on how precise their parameters can be set based on how well we can fabricate devices. This may require per-device characterisation.
University of California, San Diego Updated 2025-07-16
Schoof's algorithm Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's Chinese name Updated 2025-07-16
ELF Hello World Tutorial
SHN_ABS
Updated 2025-07-16hello_world_len
points to the special st_shndx == SHN_ABS == 0xF1FF
.0xF1FF
is chosen so as to not conflict with other sections.st_value == 0xD == 13
which is the value we have stored there on the assembly: the length of the string Hello World!
.This is small optimization that our assembler does for us and which has ELF support.
Hippolyte Pixiis alternator Updated 2025-07-16
MongoDB Updated 2025-07-16
List databases:
echo 'show dbs' | mongo
Show all data from one of the collections: stackoverflow.com/questions/24985684/mongodb-show-all-contents-from-all-collections
echo 'db.collectionName.find()' | mongo mydb
The best cycling map app Updated 2025-07-16
- Google Maps download offline maps. This works very reliably, you can select the area you want to download. The only downside is that Google maps can't reliably show a route offline, and it does not contain national cycle route routes. Or those features are impossible for a software engineer to get working after trying for about 2 hours.
- OpenStreetMap on browser with cycling layer: www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/49.582/1.934&layers=C This is the best visualization of cycling routes I've found so far, contains both National Cycle Network and National Byway and a few others, and they are shown extremely clearly. But as a website it doesn't reliably work offline
- the OsmAnd app for Android is the best offline free-ish OpenStreetMap viewer I've found so far. You only have to pay after reaching 5 region downloads, and it is very cheap if you want to do so. The cycle route view is not amazing, the routes are not so clearly marked and mixed with very similarly colored big roads, but with a bit of effort you can make them out. No routing though
- I've heard Komoot can keep a predefined route (possibly auto planed) reliably offline, but haven't used it myself. I was not able to see National Cycle Route clearly marked anywhere on it
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