Spain Updated +Created
The Fourier transform is a bijection in Updated +Created
As mentioned at Section "Plancherel theorem", some people call this part of Plancherel theorem, while others say it is just a corollary.
This is an important fact in quantum mechanics, since it is because of this that it makes sense to talk about position and momentum space as two dual representations of the wave function that contain the exact same amount of information.
Amazon River Updated +Created
Calibre (software) Updated +Created
Sometimes Ciro Santilli says half jokingly that user interface does not matter.
This software circa 2010-2020 makes that joke not be funny.
How can a UI feel so clunky!
The most aggravating thing is that it is not immediately obvious why it feels so bad.
Cardinality of the continuum Updated +Created
Microphone Updated +Created
Video 1.
Testing and Circuit for a Condenser microphone by RSD Academy (2018)
Source.
Not very numerical, but shows a simple working breadboard circuit and an oscilloscope. He whistles with his mouth to get a pretty pure frequency.
That type of microphone requires a bias voltage. The circuit is in Ciro's ASCII art circuit diagram notation:
DC_9---R_10k--+--MICROPHONE--+--G
              |              |
              +-------V------+
Video 2.
Soundwaves on an oscilloscope by Animated Science (2015)
Source. Dude speaking to microphone. Some analysis of how different sounds look like. No circuit diagram.
Rorogwela Updated +Created
Video 1.
Rorogwela by Afunakwa (1970)
Source. Later used as a vocal sample in the Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest (1992), which notably featured in Where the hell is Matt (2006), an early YouTube viral video. The original destroys the Deep Forest version however.
Carbohydrate loading Updated +Created
The Hardware of a Quantum Computer by TU Delft Updated +Created
EdX course. Meh! Just give me the YouTube list!!
But seriously, this is a valuable little list.
The course is basically exclusively about transmons.
Video 1.
The transmon qubit by Leo Di Carlo (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy.
Video 2.
Circuit QED by Leo Di Carlo (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy.
Video 3.
Measurements on transmon qubits by Niels Bultink (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy. I wish someone would show some actual equipment running! But this is of interest.
Video 4.
Single-qubit gate by Brian Taraskinki (2018)
Source. Good video! Basically you make a phase rotation by controlling the envelope of a pulse.
Video 5.
Two qubit gates by Adriaan Rol (2018)
Source.
Video 6.
Assembling a Quantum Processor by Leo Di Carlo (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy.
Warring States period Updated +Created
Cavity quantum electrodynamics Updated +Created
Everything can break everything Updated +Created
Whenever someone asks:
I can only see this one thing different our setups, do you think it could be the cause of our different behaviour?
you don't need to read anymore, just point them to this page immediately. Virtualization for the win.
libpng Updated +Created
Little Boy Updated +Created
Uranium-based, dropped on Hiroshima. The uranium was enriched at the Clinton Engineer Works.
SageMath Updated +Created
A Python wrapper over a bunch of numeric and computer algebra system packages to try and fully replace MATLAB et. al.
For example, their
Quickstart tutorial at: www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html From this we see that they are very opinionated, you don't need to import anything, everything has a pre-defined global name, which is convenient, e.g.:
is the 3D vector space over the rationals. This also suggests that they are quite focused on computer algebra as opposed to numerical.
Cauchy boundary condition Updated +Created
Sets both a Dirichlet boundary condition and a Neumann boundary condition for a single part of the boundary.
We understand intuitively that this imposes stricter requirements on solutions, which makes it easier to guarantee uniqueness, but also harder to have existence. TODO intuitively why hyperbolic need this extra level of restriction.
The Holy Trinity of popular Brazilian music Updated +Created
Three Hundred Tang Poems Updated +Created
Causality and quantum jumps are incompatible Updated +Created
If something does a quantum jump, what causes it to decide doing so at a particular time and not another? It is expected that a continuous cause would have continuous effects.
This concern was raised immediately by Rutherford while reviewing the Bohr model in 1913 as mentioned in The Quantum Story by Jim Baggott (2011) page 32.

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