IBM System/360 Updated +Created
This is a family of computers. It was a big success. It appears that this was a big unification project of previous architectures. And it also gave software portability guarantees with future systems, since writing software was starting to become as expensive as the hardware itself.
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Spectral line Updated +Created
A single line in the emission spectrum.
So precise, so discrete, which makes no sense in classical mechanics!
Has been the leading motivation of the development of quantum mechanics, all the way from the:
Overdetermination of Maxwell's equations Updated +Created
As seen from explicit scalar form of the Maxwell's equations, this expands to 8 equations, so the question arises if the system is over-determined because it only has 6 functions to be determined.
As explained on the Wikipedia page however, this is not the case, because if the first two equations hold for the initial condition, then the othe six equations imply that they also hold for all time, so they can be essentially omitted.
It is also worth noting that the first two equations don't involve time derivatives. Therefore, they can be seen as spacial constraints.
TODO: the electric field and magnetic field can be expressed in terms of the electric potential and magnetic vector potential. So then we only need 4 variables?
R (programming language) Updated +Created
Ubuntu 23.04 install:
sudo apt install rbase
Hello world:
R -e 'print("hello world")'
Install a package, e.g. Bookdown:
sudo R -e 'install.packages("bookdown")'
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Exponentiation functional equation Updated +Created
We define this as the functional equation:
It is a bit like cauchy's functional equation but with multiplication instead of addition.
JavaScript Updated +Created
The language all browsers converted to as of 2019, and therefore the easiest one to distribute and most widely implemented programming language.
Hopefully will be killed by WebAssembly one day.
Because JavaScript is a relatively crap/ad-hoc language, it ended up some decent tooling to make up for that, e.g. stuff like linting via ESLint and reformatting through Prettier is much more widespread than in other languages.
JavaScript data structure are also quite a bit anemic, which makes libraries such as lodash incredibly popular. But most of that stuff should be in the stdlib.
Our JavaScript examples can be found at:
  • Node.js example: examples that don't interact with any browser feature. We are just testing those on the CLI which is much more convenient.
  • JavaScript browser example: examples that interact with browser-specific features, notably the DOM
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