nodejs/sequelize/raw/parallel_select_and_update.js Updated +Created
Filter (signal processing) Updated +Created
Fine structure Updated +Created
Split in energy levels due to interaction between electron up or down spin and the electron orbitals.
Numerically explained by the Dirac equation when solving it for the hydrogen atom, and it is one of the main triumphs of the theory.
Android (operating system) Updated +Created
However, many, many, many terrible horrors come with it:
Fraunhofer diffraction Updated +Created
Far field approximation to Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, i.e. when the plane of observation is far from the object diffracting.
@cirosantilli/_file/python/python/ast_cheat.py Updated +Created
Conclusions Updated +Created
  • against all odds, the experiment worked and we got DNA out of the water, despite a bunch of non-bio newbs actively messing with random parts of the experiment
  • PuntSeq and Biomakespace people, and all those tho do scientific outreach, are awesome!
  • biology is hard
  • creating insanely media rich articles like this is also hard, but the following helped enormously:
    • Wikimedia Commons to store large media files out of Git
    • Asciidoctor extensions to easily include those media files. The lessons learnt in this article were then an important motivation for Ciro's OurBigBook Markup, to which this article was later migrated.
    • Nomacs to give Google Photos photos meaningful names and to edit people's faces out of pictures ;-)
  • some scientific Wikipedia pages may or may not have been edited with better pictures during the course of writing this article
Oxford physics course handbook Updated +Created
The normal navigation to them was paywalled, but the static files are served without login checks if you know their URL. One way to go about it is to search by prefix on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/*/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/contentblock/2011/06/03/*
The last handbooks we can find are 2020/2021, they might have move to a new more properly paywalled location after that year.
PostgreSQL serialization failure Updated +Created
When using SQL REPEATABLE READ isolation level and SQL SERIALIZABLE isolation level, concurrent transactions may fail with a serialization failure, and then you might need to retry them. You server code or your ORM must always account for that.
A good way to explore when it happens is to use the example
Superconducting qubits are bad because of fabrication variation Updated +Created
Atom-based qubits like trapped ion quantum computers have parameters fixed by the laws of physics.
However superconducting qubits have a limit on how precise their parameters can be set based on how well we can fabricate devices. This may require per-device characterisation.
Four Beauties Updated +Created
Figure 1.
A modern rendition of the four beauties
. Source. TODO we need a decent older one with CC BY-SA, and illustrating their attributes! Wikimedia failed me.
Football Updated +Created
Football is a synonym for association football, can we be done with that! The word "soccer" is an aberration.
See also Ciro Santilli's critique of rooting for sport teams.
Football variant Updated +Created
Formal proof is useless Updated +Created
The only cases where formal proof of theorems seem to have had actual mathematical value is for theorems that require checking a very large number of case, so much so that no human can be fully certain that no mistakes were made. Some examples:
Form (mathematics) Updated +Created
First-person shooter Updated +Created
First Solvay Conference (1911) Updated +Created
Four-day workweek Updated +Created
We need this. The five day week is designed to suck all the mental life of an average mental worker person, and it leaves basically nothing if they "do their job really well".
Advocacy groups:

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