Ciro's Edict #4 / Group all SQL queries together Updated +Created
And do 5 big queries instead of hundreds of smaller ones.
For example, a README.ciro document that references another document saying:
The \x[speed-of-light] is fast.
needs to fetch "speed-of-light" from the ID database (previously populated e.g. by preparsing light.ciro:
= Light

== Speed of light
to decide that it should display as "Speed of light" (the title rather than the ID).
Previously, 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
2D rigid body dynamics simulator Updated +Created
Cross polytope Updated +Created
Examples: square, octahedron.
Take and flip one of 0's to . Therefore has vertices.
Each edge E is linked to every other edge, except it's opposite -E.
Dan Kaminsky Updated +Created
A superstar security researcher with some major exploits from in the 2000's.
RNA secondary structure Updated +Created
Analogous problem to the secondary structure of proteins. Likely a bit simpler due to the strong tendency for complementary pairs to bind.
Unit circle Updated +Created
The unitary group is one very over-generalized way of looking at it :-)
Solutions of the Schrodinger equation Updated +Created
As always, the best way to get some intuition about an equation is to solve it for some simple cases, so let's give that a try with different fixed potentials.
SpaceX Updated +Created
Video 1.
What Elon Musk's 42,000 Satellites Could Do To Earth by Tech Insider (2020)
Source. Good primer. The main difference from older systems is that they fly closer to Earth, and are not geostationary. As a result, you have better latency. But you also need a bunc of them to have continuous coverage of an area.
Ciro's Edict #4 / Misc tech Updated +Created
I've finally had enough of Nvidia breaking my Ubuntu 21.10 suspend, so I investigated some more and found a workaround on the NVIDIA forums: stackoverflow.com/questions/58233482/next-js-setting-up-eslint-for-nextjs/70519682#70519682.
Thanks enormously to heroic user humblebee, and once again, Nvidia, fuck you.
The Dropout Updated +Created
It is good to watch the Out For blood in Silicon Valley (2019) documentary after this to see how the characters look like in real life. Many feel amazingly cast, very close to the original. The only great exception is the Indian dude, who is completely different. Was it that hard to find some indian dude who looked and felt a little more like the real one?
Uncertainty principle Updated +Created
The wave equation contains the entire state of a particle.
And a single vector can be represented in many different ways in different basis, and two of those ways happen to be the position and the momentum representations.
More importantly, position and momentum are first and foremost operators associated with observables: the position operator and the momentum operator. And both of their eigenvalue sets form a basis of the Hilbert space according to the spectral theorem.
When you represent a wave equation as a function, you have to say what the variable of the function means. And depending on weather you say "it means position" or "it means momentum", the position and momentum operators will be written differently.
Furthermore, the position and momentum representations are equivalent: one is the Fourier transform of the other: position and momentum space. Remember that notably we can always take the Fourier transform of a function in due to Carleson's theorem.
In precise terms, the uncertainty principle talks about the standard deviation of two measures.
We can visualize the uncertainty principle more intuitively by thinking of a wave function that is a real flat top bump function with a flat top in 1D. We can then change the width of the support, but when we do that, the top goes higher to keep probability equal to 1. The momentum is 0 everywhere, except in the edges of the support. Then:
Modem router Updated +Created
Numerical software Updated +Created
Post-nominal letters Updated +Created
Rust (video game) Updated +Created
The brutality of this game, the fact that you can get killed at any point, and all players accept that, is awesome.
tig (git UI) Updated +Created
This is good. But it misses some key operations, so much so that makes Ciro not want to learn/use it daily.
Topological quantum computer Updated +Created
Video 2.
Topological Quantum Computation by Jason Alicea (2021)
Source.
Video 3.
Anyons by Yuly Billig (2022)
Source.
Cobalt bomb Updated +Created
Crime Updated +Created
Video 1.
FBI vs Un-Defuseable Bomb by Qxir (2021)
Source. Tells the story of Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing (1980)

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