DPhil Updated 2025-07-16
Short for Doctor of Philosophy, it's how some weird places like the University of Oxford say PhD. In Oxford they also analogously say MPHil.
Isoleucine Updated 2025-07-16
Pilus Updated 2025-07-16
Can either be a cell's dick used during bacterial conjugation, or little attachment anchors.
Glutamine Updated 2025-07-16
How to teach / Version your material Updated 2025-07-16
Whenever you make a change to your material, people should still be able to access the previous version.
Maybe there was something in the previous version that they needed, and you just removed.
Git + GitHub is the perfect way to do versioning.
Human loss of fur Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
How Humans Lost Their Fur by PBS Eons (2020)
Source. Says it is linked to bipedalism to help hunting in hot weather. But could only happen fully after the invention of fire, otherwise you'd be too cold at night.
Moodle Updated 2025-07-16
It is interesting to see how your own ideas shift with time, and Ciro Santilli doesn't think the following are very important anymore, so he was lazy to migrate them.
When he did the original website Ciro was in a "I must show off my skills to get a job mindset", but then after he landed a few jobs he moved to a "CV websites are useless, just do amazing projects and showcase them on your website to help them succeed" mindset.
Quantum circuit description language Updated 2025-07-16
These are a bit like the Verilog of quantum computing.
One would hope that they are not Turing complete, this way they may serve as a way to pass on data in such a way that the receiver knows they will only be doing so much computation in advance to unpack the circuit. So it would be like JSON is for JavaScript.
Sean M. Carroll Updated 2025-07-16
Works at Caltech as of 2020.
But as usual, it falls too close to popular science for Ciro's taste.

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