Television series that Ciro Santilli watched all episodes of Updated +Created
The best way to watch a television series is: wait for the thing to end. Then watch the first and last episodes of each season. The rest is fluff. And then pick up any missing interesting clips from YouTube. If a series holds you more than those episodes, it is one of the few amazing ones!
Amitābha Updated +Created
More important than the monk itself in Chinese culture, it is used as a Budhist Amen. TODO find some usage in some Chinese television series.
Random number generation Updated +Created
Horizontal gene transfer Updated +Created
Ways in which it can happen:
Figure 1.
Graph of life
. Source. horizontal gene transfer transforms the tree of life into the graph of life! Fuck my life.
Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime Updated +Created
Combination of electromagnetism and general relativity. Unlike combining quantum mechanics and general relativity, this combination was easier.
TODO any experiments of interest at all?
Zeta (letter) Updated +Created
Lower case looks like the mouth shape when you say Z, with mouth open, and you can even see the little tongue going down. Beauty.
Learning management systems Updated +Created
This website basically aims to be a learning management system, allowing in particular a teacher to focus his help on students that he is legally obliged to help due to their job. But it will have the following unusual characteristics in current LMS solutions:
  • public first, to allow reuse across universities, rather than paywalled as is the case for most top universities
  • students can create material just like teachers, both are on equal footing. Students/teachers will see an indicator "this is your teacher"/"this is your student for this/past semester", but that is the only difference between their interfaces.
Distributive property Updated +Created
One of the defining properties of algebraic structure with two operations such as ring and field:
This property shows how the two operations interact.
Epsilon (letter) Updated +Created
Confusingly, in LaTeX:
  • \varepsilon rendered , is the default modern Greek glyph
  • \epsilon rendered is the lunate variant
Nu (letter) Updated +Created
Why would physicists use a letter such that:
  • the upper case version looks exactly like an upper case N. At least that is the correct pronunciation/name/historical successor of .
  • the lower case version looks exactly like a lower case V
Why? Why?????????
Psi (Greek) Updated +Created
As if it weren't enough, there's also a Cyrillic script psi that is slightly different. Life's great.
Punycode inscription Updated +Created
Namecoin examples are catalogued at: punycodes.xyz. The are small Unicode art or emoji code.
There seems to be nothing of particular artistic value as far as we've seen so far, the only interest in such tokens seems to be that:
  • there are some examples that came earlier than those in the Bitcoin blockchain, notably a bit earlier than Section "BitLen"
  • Namecoin is a NFT system unlike Bitcoin which is fungible, so those assets are naturally tradable
Vim Updated +Created
Before we get a decent open source integrated development environment, what else can you do?
But also perfect for small one-off files when you don't have the patience to setup said IDE.
vim's defaults are atrocious for the 21st century! Vundle is reasonable as an ad-hoc package manager, but it can't set fixed versions of packages:
Sci-Inspi (YouTube channel) Updated +Created
The channel is also notable for the fact that the author makes his own music.
Video 1.
Behind the Scenes by Sci-Inspi (2020)
Source. His name is Manuael, aka Manu, and he is the chemistry lab technician at a community college.
Don Lincoln Updated +Created
Publishes through the Fermilab YouTube channel under the playlist "Fermilab - Videos by Don Lincoln"
Some insights, but too much on the popular science side of things.
Sergey Brin Updated +Created
Stefan Thomas Updated +Created
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html
As for his lost password and inaccessible Bitcoin, Mr. Thomas has put the IronKey in a secure facility - he won’t say where - in case cryptographers come up with new ways of cracking complex passwords. Keeping it far away helps him try not to think about it, he said.
“I would just lay in bed and think about it," Mr. Thomas said.
Video 1.
What is Bitcoin? (v1) by WeUseCoins (2011)
Source. This is the video that Stefan Thomas as paid 7,002 Bitcoins to make back in 2011.
Satoshi Nakamoto candidate Updated +Created
Ubuntu 21.04 Updated +Created
Empty circle control qubit notation Updated +Created
Some authors use the convention of:
  • filled black circle: conventional controlled quantum gate, i.e. operate if control qubit is active
  • empty (White) circle: operate if control qubit is inactive

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