Taxonomy Updated +Created
96 well microplate Updated +Created
Biologists are obsessed with these!
Abraham Updated +Created
Academic journal Updated +Created
Academic paper Updated +Created
Dense and sparse matrices Updated +Created
A good definition is that the sparse matrix has non-zero entries proportional the number of rows. Therefore this is Big O notation less than something that has non zero entries. Of course, this only makes sense when generalizing to larger and larger matrices, otherwise we could take the constant of proportionality very high for one specific matrix.
Of course, this only makes sense when generalizing to larger and larger matrices, otherwise we could take the constant of proportionality very high for one specific matrix.
Internet Control Message Protocol Updated +Created
Nuclear weapon Updated +Created
Figure 1.
A weapons-grade ring of electrorefined plutonium, typical of the rings refined at Los Alamos and sent to Rocky Flats for fabrication
. Source. The ring has a purity of 99.96%, weighs 5.3 kg, and is approx 11 cm in diameter. It is enough plutonium for one bomb core. Which city shall we blow up today?
Ciro Santilli is mildly obsessed by nuclear reactions, because they are so quirky. How can a little ball destroy a city? How can putting too much of it together produce criticality and kill people like in the Slotin accident or the Tokaimura criticality accident. It is mind blowing really.
Video 1.
Tour of a nuclear misile silo from the 60's by Arizona Highways TV (2019)
Source.
Video 2.
The Ultimate Guide to Nuclear Weapons by hypohystericalhistory (2022)
Source. Good overall summary. Some interesting points:
Nuclear weapon delivery Updated +Created
Knock knock.
Developmental biology Updated +Created
Video 1.
Where is Anatomy Encoded in Living Systems? by Michael Levin (2022)
Source.
  • we are very far from full understanding. End game is a design system where you draw the body and it compiles the DNA for you.
  • some cool mentions of regeneration
Dihedral group Updated +Created
Our notation: , called "dihedral group of degree n", means the dihedral group of the regular polygon with sides, and therefore has order (all rotations + flips), called the "dihedral group of order 2n".
Direct product Updated +Created
A Cartesian product that carries over some extra structure of the input groups.
E.g. the direct product of groups carries over group structure on both sides.
Evolution Updated +Created
Video 1.
The Evolution of Bacteria on a 'Mega-Plate' Petri dish by Kishony Lab (2016)
Source. They've made a huge Petri dish with bands of different concentrations of antibiotic, and then they visualize Escherichia coli mutations as new strains manage to make their way into the highest antibiotic concentration strip. mind blowing.
Hilary term Updated +Created
Obsidian (software) Updated +Created
Good:
Bad:
Oil drop experiment Updated +Created
Clear experiment diagram which explains that the droplet mass determined with Stoke's law:
American Scientific, LLC sells a ready made educational kit for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV3BtoMGA9c
Here's some actual footage of a droplet on a well described more one-off setup:
Video 2.
Millikan's Experiment, Part 2: The Experiment by Phil Furneaux (2017)
Source. From Lancaster University
This American video likely from the 60's shows it with amazing contrast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDT2FcyeA4

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