for loop Updated 2025-07-16
One theoretical motivation for its existence is that it has the fundamental property that we are immediately certain it will terminate, unlike while loops with arbitrary conditions.
Primitive recursive functions are the complexity class that divides those two.
Multiplication Updated 2025-07-16
Replacement of master and slave terminology from technology Updated 2025-07-16
The IETF was a notable one: www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/technology/racist-computer-engineering-terms-ietf.html
- developers.google.com/style/word-list (archive) Google's avoid word list is a masterclass in 2020's political correctness
Reverse transcriptase Updated 2025-07-16
Converts RNA to DNA, i.e. the inverse of transcription. Found in viruses such as Retrovirus, which includes e.g. HIV.
Ridiculous cases of political correctness censorship Updated 2025-07-16
- Stack Exchange's censorship of "I think Trump is disgusting as a person" from Ciro Santilli's profile: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/sstack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping
HIV Updated 2025-07-16
Messenger RNA Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #4 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #4 Enable reference features into ourbigbook.com Updated 2025-07-16
Square Updated 2025-07-16
Synchrotron Updated 2025-07-16
Most important application: produce X-rays for X-ray crystallography.
Note however that the big experiments at CERN, like the Large Hadron Collider, are also synchrotrons.
List of facilities: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synchrotron_radiation_facilities
Cartesian product Updated 2025-07-16
Cross polytope Updated 2025-07-16
Fan painting Updated 2025-07-16
Fundamental theorem on homomorphisms Updated 2025-07-16
Galois theory Updated 2025-07-16
GenBank Updated 2025-07-16
Pretty Much Physics Updated 2025-07-16
RNA secondary structure Updated 2025-07-16
Analogous problem to the secondary structure of proteins. Likely a bit simpler due to the strong tendency for complementary pairs to bind.
Ciro's Edict #4 Group all SQL queries together Updated 2025-07-16
And do 5 big queries instead of hundreds of smaller ones.
For example, a README.ciro document that references another document saying:needs to fetch "speed-of-light" from the ID database (previously populated e.g. by preparsing light.ciro:to decide that it should display as "Speed of light" (the title rather than the ID).
The \x[speed-of-light] is fast.= Light
== Speed of lightPreviously, I was doing a separate fetch for each
\x[] as they were needed, leading to hundreds of them at different times.Now I refactored things so that I do very few database queries, but large ones that fetch everything during parsing. And then at render time they are all ready in cache.
This will be fundamental for the live preview on the browser, where the roundtrip to server would make it impossible
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