y86.js.org Updated 2025-07-16
The good:
  • slick UI! But very hard to read characters, they're way too small.
  • attempts to show state diffs with a flash. But it goes by too fast, would be better if it were more permanent
  • Reverse debugging
The bad:
Matrix inverse Updated 2025-07-16
When it exists, which is not for all matrices, only invertible matrix, the inverse is denoted:
Yttrium barium copper oxide Updated 2025-07-16
Upside: superconducting above 92K, which is above the 77K of liquid nitrogen, and therefore much much cheaper to obtain and maintain than liquid helium.
Downside: it is brittle, so how do you make wires out of it? Still, can already be used in certain circuits, e.g. high temperature SQUID devices.
Kyoto medal Updated 2025-07-16
Microwave source Updated 2025-07-16
Microwave only found applications into the 1940s and 1950s, much later than radio, because good enough sources were harder to develop.
One notable development was the cavity magnetron in 1940, which was the basis for the original radar systems of World War II.
Mineral Updated 2025-07-16
This is unlike atomic systems like trapped ion quantum computers, where each atom is necessarily exactly the same as the other.
Ciro Santilli's formal education Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli participated in a double degree program, so he obtained have engineering degrees in both:
Despite studying in great institutions with great teachers, Ciro feels that:
This motivated Ciro to work on OurBigBook.com.
Zhuangzi Updated 2025-07-16
33 chapters. The first 7 are likely by Zhuang Zhou himself, and the rest a mishmash.
  • James Legge (1891):
    • ctext.org/zhuangzi side by side with Chinese, one chapter per page. Dividies it into three parts:
      • Inner Chapters
      • Outer Chapters
      • Miscellaneous Chapters
Diamond Updated 2025-07-16

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