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Slow neutron Updated 2025-07-16

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Axon Updated 2025-07-16

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Cisco Updated 2025-07-16

Nerds 2.0.1 excerpt about Cisco (1998)

youtu.be/mhz24AR3nIc?t=45 the founders both worked at Stanford University but because they were in different departments they couldn't send an email to one another.
youtu.be/mhz24AR3nIc?t=54 Sandy Lerner is very nice and chilled. She says how she was amazed by Leonard's manners!
youtu.be/mhz24AR3nIc?t=86 "sincerity begins at a little over 100 hours a week". The dude is a robot.
youtu.be/mhz24AR3nIc?t=279 earthquake!!!
youtu.be/d0ya8DggDYs?list=PLn7AqqWS1I_9EHEHy6sw-v6hUMhbeOTRW&t=3268 she bought a manor house, probably in Chawton Hampshire, England, possibly Chawton House
youtu.be/d0ya8DggDYs?list=PLn7AqqWS1I_9EHEHy6sw-v6hUMhbeOTRW&t=3312 he started donating to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

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SmartNIC Updated 2025-07-16

A network interface controller that does more than just the base OSI model protocols, notably in a programmable way.

www.nextplatform.com/2022/05/11/intel-unrolls-dpu-roadmap-with-a-two-year-cadence/
www.trentonsystems.com/blog/what-is-a-smartnic
blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/10/29/what-is-a-smartnic/ "Some are using FPGAs which promise flexibility"
www.servethehome.com/intel-ipu-exotic-answer-to-industry-dpu/ "Intel IPU is an Exotic Answer to the Industry DPU"
2022 www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amd-to-buy-smartnic-firm-pensando-for-19-billion/ "AMD to buy SmartNIC firm Pensando for $1.9 billion"
Nvidia gets Mellanox, AMD gets Pensando.
The company, which develops programmable packet processors, includes Goldman Sachs, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud among its customers.
Its processors and SmartNIC offering competes with AWS Nitro, Intel's DPU, and Nvidia's BlueField.
www.theregister.com/2022/06/14/alibaba_dpu_cloud/ mentions that Alibaba Cloud created their own.

Hyperscalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs by The Next Platform (2019)

youtu.be/kwroXmFJJf0?t=599 financial industry is one of the users, notably high-frequency trading

Associated article: www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/31/hypercalers-lead-the-way-to-the-future-with-smartnics/ mentions that:

Google is widely believed to be working on its own design.

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Sarin Updated 2025-07-16

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VX (nerve agent) Updated 2025-07-16

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Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness Updated 2025-12-25

See also: existence and uniqueness of solutions of partial differential equations.

On December 19, 2025 a bet was revealed between two DeepMind guys that one of them would have a Lean proof to the problem:

A report on the Navier-Stokes Problem by Vladimir Šverak

. Source. 2025.

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Planck units Updated 2025-07-16

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NNSA laboratory Updated 2025-07-16

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Mutagen Updated 2025-07-16

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DNA mutation type Updated 2025-07-16

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Slipped strand mispairing Updated 2025-07-16

The cause of variable number tandem repeat.

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2FA app Updated 2025-07-16

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Google 2FA app token can be updated without checking the old 2FA Updated 2025-07-16

Ermm, as of February 2021, I was able to update my 2FA app token with the password alone, it did not ask for the old 2FA.

So what's the fucking point of 2FA then? An attacker with my password would be able to login by doing that!

Is it that Google trusts that particular action because I used the same phone/known IP or something like that?

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Install MongoDB on Ubuntu Updated 2025-07-16

Tested as of Ubuntu 20.04, there is no Mongo package available by default due to their change to Server Side Public License, which Debian opposed. Therefore, you have to add their custom PPA as mentioned at: docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

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How to mine Monero Updated 2025-11-05

Ubuntu 20.10 as per xmrig.com/docs/miner/build/ubuntu:

sudo apt install git build-essential cmake libuv1-dev libssl-dev libhwloc-dev
git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig.git
mkdir xmrig/build && cd xmrig/build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)

At minexmr.com/#getting_started we see that all you then need is a single CLI command:

xmrig -o pool.minexmr.com:4444 -u <your-monero-address>

Seems simple, well done devs!

Benchmark on Lenovo ThinkPad P51 (2017) as per xmrig.com/docs/miner/benchmark:

./xmrig --bench=1M

gives:

948.1 h/s

which according to the minexmr.com mining pool would generate 0.0005 XMR/day, which at the February 2021 rate of 140 USD/XMR is 0.07 USD/day. The minimum payout in that pool is 0.004 XMR so it would take 8 days to reach that.

So clearly, application-specific integrated circuit mining is the only viable way of doing this.

Some people considering Raspberry Pis also conclude obviously that it is useless at a 10H/s rate:

www.makeuseof.com/cryptos-you-can-mine-at-home/ is a completely full of bullshit article that says otherwise. How can someone publish that!

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Gel electrophoresis Updated 2025-07-16

Technique widely used to measure the size of DNA strands, most often PCR output of a region of interest.

A simple sample application is gel electrophoresis alelle determination.

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Agarose gel electrophoresis Updated 2025-07-16

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Microtome Updated 2025-07-16

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Petri dish Updated 2025-07-16

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