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
OurBigBook.com / Feature ideas Updated 2025-07-16
In this section we will gather some more advanced ideas besides the basic features described at how the website works.
Nguyen Hue High School for the Gifted Updated 2026-06-14
Ciro Santilli gets some LinkedIn views from students of that school. They must be a big brained lot.
Graphite Updated 2025-07-16
The layered one.
Info-ZIP Updated 2025-07-16
The dominant Linux implemenation, e.g. default zip command on Ubuntu 23.04.
So dominant that it is usualy called just "zip".

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