Rat Updated +Created
Since rat and mouse are not scientifically specific names, we'll just use them interchangeably.
When one specific species is implied, we will mean Mus musculus by default.
Suicide Updated +Created
2009 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated +Created
This one took a while! Major developments were from the 70s! Perhaps it took the Internet revolution to make its importance clear.
Crystal radio Updated +Created
This was the first generation of commercially successful radios.
It uses a crystal detector as its diode, which is a crucial element of the radio, thus its name.
They were superseded by transistor radios, which were much more reliable, portable and could amplify the signal received.
Video 1.
How a Crystal radio Works by RimstarOrg
. Source.
Doping (semiconductor) Updated +Created
Leanpub Updated +Created
Founder: Peter Armstrong
The general idea is publishing entire books with usual copyright, but with gradual updates.
ruboss.com/ documents their stack, a somewhat similar choice to OurBigBook.com as of 2021, notably Next.js. But backend in Ruby on Rails. They actually managed Apollo/GraphQL, which Ciro Santilli would have liked, but din't have the patience for.
The founder/CEO Peter Armstrong www.linkedin.com/in/peterburtonarmstrong/ He looks like a nice guy.
Psi4 Updated +Created
Quantum computing research institute Updated +Created
Semiconductor industry bibliography Updated +Created
Ungulate subclade Updated +Created
Edward Teller Updated +Created
Video 1.
Witnessing the test explosion Edward Teller interview by Web of Stories (1996)
Source.
Video 2.
Edward Teller, An Early Time
. Source. Comissioned by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1979. Producer: Mario Balibreraa.
Mouse mutant Updated +Created
PySCF Updated +Created
Quantum Intermediate Representation Updated +Created
Used e.g. by Oxford Quantum Circuits, www.linkedin.com/in/john-dumbell-627454121/ mentions:
Using LLVM to consume QIR and run optimization, scheduling and then outputting hardware-specific instructions.
Presumably the point of it is to allow simulation in classical computers?
Supernatural martial arts Updated +Created
Shame that the Chinese in the lat 20th early 21st like that bullshit so much. It just weakens everything. Just imaginge those works with more realistic fighting! Would be amazing.
Yak shaving Updated +Created
Confluence (software) Updated +Created
Exam as a service Updated +Created
This is Ciro Santilli's name for the idea that we should not have structured degrees at university that require entry exams, only tests that anybondy could take, likely for free, and then they would just have proof that they know the stuff for e.g. teachers that care about a subject while selecting students to work with them in research.
We just need control rooms where someone can watch students for cheating. Multiple different exams can be taken in the same room of course, students just have to sign up in advance. The exams should happen regularly depending on demand. E.g. extremelly common subjects should happen every month, and highly specialized ones every 6 months or 1 year.
Questions should be always taken from an open question pool which also contains answers, thus allowing anyone to effectively study for it.
How many questions can you actually come up with about a given non research subject, right?
We then make an API available, so that students can grant access to specific results to anyone they choose, or even make the results public for anyone to see. This way the people that care about the exams can just machine learn what exams correlate with their desired performance.
Finite projective special linear group Updated +Created

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