Innovate UK Updated +Created
Soviet Union Updated +Created
Spacetime diagram Updated +Created
Why should I care when I can calculate new x and new time with Lorentz transformation?
Answer: it can give some qualitative intuition on what is larger/smaller happens before/after based only on arguably more intuitive geometric considerations, without requiring you to do any calculations, see e.g. Figure "Spacetime diagram illustrating how faster-than-light travel implies time travel".
SQUID device Updated +Created
Can be used as a very precise magnetometer.
Video 1.
Superconducting Quantum Interference Device by Felipe Contipelli (2019)
Source. Good intuiotionistic video. Some points deserved a bit more detail.
Video 2.
Mishmash of SQUID interviews and talks by Bartek Glowaki
. Source.
The videos come from: www.ascg.msm.cam.ac.uk/lectures/. Vintage.
Mentions that the SQUID device is analogous to a double-slit experiment.
One of the segments is by John Clarke.
Video 3.
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices by UNSW Physics (2020)
Source.
An experimental lab video for COVID-19 lockdown. Thanks, COVID-19. Presented by a cute and awkward Adam Stewart.
Uses a SQUID device and control system made by STAR Cryoelectronics. We can see Mr. SQUID EB-03 written on the probe and control box, that is their educational product.
As mentioned on the Mr. SQUID specs, it is a high-temperature superconductor, so liquid nitrogen is used.
He then measures the I-V curve on an Agilent Technologies oscilloscope.
Unfortunately, the video doesn't explain very well what is happening behind the scenes, e.g. with a circuit diagram. That is the curse of university laboratory videos: some of them assume that students will have material from other internal sources.
Video 4.
The Ubiquitous SQUID by John Clarke (2018)
Source.
Stack Overflow content deletion Updated +Created
Stack overflow allows deleting content/making it visible only to 10k rep users.
Ciro Santilli is strictly against this, and this is an intended core policy of OurBigBook.com.
If you delete people's content randomly, they will be much less likely to write anything.
Getting downvoted to oblivion is one thing, but data loss? Unacceptable.
Only illegal content must ever be deleted. Or extremely obvious spam. But anything in a gray area should never be removed.
Deletion can be done by either:
Ultraviolet catastrophe Updated +Created
Bicycles require too much maintenance Updated +Created
It is true, something Ciro Santilli often things about. One likely reason is that the world is broken and most cyclist are speed maniacs willing to put the time in. Unlike Dutch people where everyone cycles.
Blockchain wiki Updated +Created
This section is about wikis that are hosted on a blockchain of some sort.
City in the Netherlands Updated +Created
Cladogram Updated +Created
TODO vs Phylogenetic tree? www.visiblebody.com/blog/phylogenetic-trees-cladograms-and-how-to-read-them:
Cladograms and phylogenetic trees are functionally very similar, but they show different things. Cladograms do not indicate time or the amount of difference between groups, whereas phylogenetic trees often indicate time spans between branching points.
Counties of the United Kingdom Updated +Created
There are few different versions. The most important as of 2020 are:
No one is capable of offering an official/more generalized (why can't Google Maps do this properly?) map than these people: wikishire.co.uk/map/#/centre=54.004,-4.500/zoom=7 So so be it.
Video 1.
English counties explained by Jay Foreman (2021)
Source.
Code golf Updated +Created
Coherence time Updated +Created
It takes time for the quantum state to evolve. So in order to have a deep quantum circuit, we need longer coherence times.
Collegiate university Updated +Created
stress-ng Updated +Created
The interface is a bit annoying, but the tool is really cool.
100 cycles of matrixprod:
stress-ng -c1 --cpu-ops 100 --cpu-method matrixprod
man stress-ng gives the list of possible --cpu-method. It documents matrixprod as:
matrix product of two 128 × 128 matrices of double floats. Testing on 64 bit x86 hardware shows that this is provides a good mix of memory, cache and floating point operations and is probably the best CPU method to use to make a CPU run hot.
If you don't specify the --cpu-method it apparently loops through every method one by one.
Limit time to 1s instead of limiting cycles:
stress-ng -c1 -t1 --cpu-method matrixprod
strings (Binutils) Updated +Created
SubStation Alpha Updated +Created
West Bank Updated +Created
The Israeli occupation is obscene.
The only reason the UN doesn't do anything is that other countries can't be bothered to send people to fight Israel and die there.
And the outcome of this is fundamentalism and indirect deaths elsewhere.
Video 1.
Israel’s Far Right Government is a Gift to Settlers by Vice News (2023)
Source.
Video 2.
How Israel automated occupation in Hebron by Al Jazeera (2023)
Source.
Atomic Weapons Establishment Updated +Created
Their website, and in particular the recruitment section, are so creepy.
There's not mention of bombs. No photos of atomic explosions. The words "atomic" and "weapon" do not even show up in the front page!!! The acronym AWE is instead used everywhere as an euphemism.
In the recruitment section we can see a bunch of people smiling: web.archive.org/web/20211007213222/https://www.awe.co.uk/careers/working-at-awe/, suggesting:
We make nukes, and we do it with a smile!
There's even children outreach!!!
Ciro Santilli is not against storing a few nukes to be ready against dictatorships. But don't be such a pussy! Just say what the fuck you are doing more clearly! You are making weapons to kill people and destroy things in order to maintain the Balance of power. If the public can't handle such facts, then shut down the fucking program.
Video 1.
Keeping the peace: A history of AWE
. Source. By AWE, 2005.

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