Kaggle Updated +Created
To be fair, this is one of the least worse ones.
Radiocarbon dating Updated +Created
Robotics Updated +Created
Transport Updated +Created
Calcium carbonate Updated +Created
Cascading Style Sheets Updated +Created
Causality in quantum mechanics Updated +Created
In simple terms, if you believe in the Schrödinger equation and its modern probabilistic interpretation as described in the Schrödinger picture, then at first it seem that there is no strict causality to the outcome of experiments.
People have then tried to recover that by assuming that there is some inner sate beyond the Schrödinger equation, but these ideas are refuted by Bell test experiments, unless we give up the principle of locality, which feels more important, especially in special relativity, where faster-than-light implies time travel, which breaks causality even more dramatically.
The de Broglie-Bohm theory is a deterministic but non-local formulation of quantum mechanics.
Celestron NexStar 4SE Updated +Created
Alignment is impossible to get right! Tried 3 star, 2 named stars, and neither worked well.
CIA 2010 covert communication websites Updated +Created
This article is about covert agent communication channel websites used by the CIA in many countries from the late 2000s until the early 2010s, when they were uncovered by counter intelligence of the targeted countries circa 2010-2013.
This article uses publicly available information to publicly disclose for the first time a few hundred of what we feel are extremely likely candidate sites of the network. The starting point for this research was the September 2022 Reuters article "America’s Throwaway Spies" for the first time gave nine example websites, and their analyst from Citizenlabs claims to have found 885 websites in total, but did not publicly disclose them. Starting from only the nine disclosed websites, we were then able to find a few hundred websites that share os many similarities with them, i.e. a common fingerprint, that we believe makes them beyond reasonable doubt part of the same network.
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Video 1.
How I found a Star Wars website made by the CIA by Ciro Santilli
. Source. Slightly edited VOD of the talk Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects.
The discovery of these websites by Iranian and Chinese counterintelligence led to the imprisonment and execution of several assets in those countries, and subsequent shutdown of the channel by the CIA when they noticed that things had gone wrong. This is likely a Wikipedia page that talks about the disastrous outcome of the websites being found out: 2010–2012 killing of CIA sources in China, although it contained no mention of websites before Ciro Santilli edited it in.
Of particular interest is that based on their language and content, certain of the websites seem to have targeted other democracies such as Germany, France, Spain and Brazil.
If anyone can find others websites, or has better techniques feel free to contact Ciro Santilli at: Section "How to contact Ciro Santilli". Contributions will be clearly attributed if desired. Some of the techniques used so far have been very heuristic, and that added to the limited amount of data makes it almost certain that some websites have been missed. Broadly speaking, there are two types of contributions that would be possible:
The fact that citizenlabs reported exactly 885 websites being found makes it feel like they might have found find a better fingerprint which we have not managed to find yet. We have not yet had to pay for our data.
Disclaimers:
May this article serve as a tribute to those who spent their days making, using, and uncovering these websites under the shadows.
chat.cs.ox.ac.uk Updated +Created
UK cycle route Updated +Created
Chemical process design Updated +Created
Video 1.
Computer Aided Simulation & Design in Chemical Engineering by Chemical Engineering Guy (2016)
Source. Interesting overview of the different types of modelling software used in chemical process design.
Video 2.
How to Design a Total Synthesis by Mike Christiansen (2013)
Source. Just a ultra quick hello world with some very basic ideas, but worth watching.
Video 3.
SuperPro Designer: Fermentation Simulation by LearnChemE (2012)
Source.
Cherwell (newspaper) Updated +Created
Chess UI Updated +Created
China Updated +Created
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain / Largest text ordinal inscription Updated +Created
Text is the only reasonbly interesting content that Ciro Santilli has seen in the ordinals, as opposed to images which are boring. They haven'g found a way to commercialize it yet it seems, thank God. Glad to have researcehd this a bit!
Shame that the plaintext ones don't show up too well on ordinals.com!
The largest inscriptions with mime text/* are:
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain / ordinals.com Updated +Created
Reference indexer web interface implementation of ordinal ruleset inscriptions.
Viewing tip: plaintext inscriptions and some HTML pages don't show well on the preview window, but you can view them well by clicking on "content". E.g.:
Crankstart Foundation Updated +Created
At crankstart.org/grants the organization's website describes mostly California activities, but they do at least also act in the University of Oxford, see: Section "University of Oxford study costs".
Presumably the name refers to crank starting an old car, as in helping out those in difficulty like poor students get started in life. But is also an obscure slang for a type of handjob according to Urban Dictionary.

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