Android Open Source Project Updated 2025-07-16
Android (operating system) Updated 2025-07-16
However, many, many, many terrible horrors come with it:
- it hasn't made the move to desktop for too many years. It could destroy Microsoft Windows and replace it with open source, but they just won't budge towards an unified mobile/desktop setup.
- vendors litter it with uninstallable bloatware that should be illegal. European Union to the rescue!!! www.cnbc.com/2020/12/15/digital-markets-act-eus-new-rules-on-big-tech.html
- vendors lock down devices so it is very hard to get sudo, let alone to modify their images!
- there isn't enough hardware standardization for open source distros to thrive like on desktop
- code drops mean that "master" is useless and trying to contribute from outside vendors' closed walls is a waste of time: stackoverflow.com/questions/1809774/how-to-compile-the-android-aosp-kernel-and-test-it-with-the-android-emulator/48310014#48310014
- if you ever go below the Java API, e.g. to C++ or AOSP build, everything is horrendous and undocumented
- Google doesn't care about the CLI, even the hello world requires creating infinite out-of-control boilerplate from a GUI: stackoverflow.com/questions/20801042/how-to-create-android-project-with-gradle-from-command-line/46994747#46994747
- the boot is uber bloated and takes forever in cycle simulators
Animal-in-the-loop Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli invented this term, it refers to mechanisms in which you put an animal in a virtual world that the animal can control, and where you can measure the animal's outputs.
- MouseGoggles www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3301474/v1 | twitter.com/hongyu_chang/status/1704910865583993236
- Fruit fly setup from Penn State: scitechdaily.com/secrets-of-fly-vision-for-rapid-flight-control-and-staggeringly-fast-reaction-speed/
Andromeda Galaxy Updated 2025-07-16
First proper nearest galaxy to the Milky Way. Everything in the middle in the Local group is either a satellite of the Milky Way or Andromeda.
As described on Wikipedia, the observational history of Andromeda is fascinating. Little by little, people noticed that it had a different nature to many other objects observed on the sky, and the hypothesis that there are other galaxies like ours grew in force.
Part of our fascination with Andromeda is due to how similar in size and shape and close it is to the Milky Way.
It is clearly the only thing so large and so close.
One can't help but wonder if there is some alien looking back at us when we are looking at them through our telescope.
Andromeda is also the furthest object from Earth that can be seen with the naked eye.[ref] Not surprising, as it literally shines with the strength of a trillion suns!
Andromeda Shun from Saint Seiya performing his Nebula Chain attack
. Source. The original Japanese music actually says "Nebula Chain" in English. The Andromeda Galaxy is shown on the back, the chain appears to go all the way to it and back towards the evil guys' head. Not very relativistic, but so be it. Andy Matuschak Updated 2025-07-16
Proponent of evergreen notes.
He's also curious about quantum computing: quantum.country/ like Ciro Santilli. Some crazy overlaps we get.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 Updated 2025-07-16
UniProt human: www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9BYF1 It is interesting to see in the Mutagenesis how many known mutations can increase or decrease SARS-CoV-2 S protein binding affinity.
Anglo-Saxons Updated 2025-07-16
Angry Video Game Nerd Updated 2025-07-16
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DtVHqyYts Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (PC) (2014) is perhaps his best video.
Angular.js Updated 2025-07-16
Angular momentum operator Updated 2025-07-16
Then you have to understand what each one of those does to the each atomic orbital:
- total angular momentum: determined by the azimuthal quantum number
- angular momentum in one direction ( by convention): determined by the magnetic quantum number
There is an uncertainty principle between the x, y and z angular momentums, we can only measure one of them with certainty at a time. Video 1. "Quantum Mechanics 7a - Angular Momentum I by ViaScience (2013)" justifies this intuitively by mentioning that this is analogous to precession: if you try to measure electrons e.g. with the Zeeman effect the precess on the other directions which you end up modifing.
Animal anatomy Updated 2025-07-16
Animal subclade Updated 2025-07-16
Animation of molecular biology processes Updated 2025-07-16
Nothing makes the fact that your life is an illusion clearer than animations of molecular biology processes. You just have no idea what is going on inside your own body right now!
And yet, we live, oblivious to all of it.
Amazing creators:
ATP synthase in action by HarvardX (2017)
Source. Electron transport chain by HarvardX (2017)
Source. This actually explains how mitochondrions use sugar derivatives and oxygen to transform ADP into ATP. Anime Updated 2025-07-16
An Introduction to QED and QCD by Jeff Forshaw (1997) Updated 2025-07-16
www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/forshaw/NorthWest/QED.pdf web.archive.org/web/20200824083133/http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/forshaw/NorthWest/QED.pdf
These seem very direct and not ultra advanced, good read.
An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory by Peskin and Schroeder (1995) Updated 2025-07-16
Unfortunately, this approach bores Ciro Santilli to death. Or perhaps is too just advanced for him to appreciate. Either of those.
800+ pages.
An Introduction to Tensors and Group Theory for Physicists by Nadir Jeevanjee (2011) Updated 2025-07-16
This does not seem to go deep into the Standard Model as Physics from Symmetry by Jakob Schwichtenberg (2015), appears to focus more on more basic applications.
But because it is more basic, it does explain some things quite well.
An LC circuit is analogous to a spring-mass system Updated 2025-07-16
Both are harmonic oscillators.
In the LC circuit:
- the current current may be seen as the velocity and containing the kinetic energy
- the charge stored in the capacitor as the potential energy
You can kickstart motion in either of those systems in two ways:
Annalen der Physik Updated 2025-07-16
This was the God OG physics journal of the early 20th century, before the Nazis fucked German science back to the Middle Ages!
Notable papers:
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.
