Brazilian creamy cornmeal cake Updated +Created
www.tudogostoso.com.br/receita/3468-bolo-de-fuba-cremoso.html
  • December 2023:
    • replacementes:
      • used 3 soy milk + 1 milk cup instead of 4 milk
      • salted butter rather than margarine
      • 1 cup of sugar rather than 3, because OMG 3 cups of sugar for 4 cups of milk is insane, Brazil!
    Turned out very good.
Brazilian exchange students Updated +Created
Brazilian pop Updated +Created
The Portuguese term for it is "música popular brasileira". The widely recognized Brazilian acronym is "MPB".
"Brazilian pop" and "Br-pop" are inventions by Ciro Santilli, which are how Ciro thinks Brazil should market it to the world.
Unfortunately "B-pop" is too ambiguous with British pop music, and should be avoided.
YouTube playlist by Ciro Santilli containing all the songs in this section: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V4_SBDnegcLTcP-5YhNmWBB
Bibliography:
Brewster's angle Updated +Created
Brideshead Revisited (1981) Updated +Created
It's just too charming, and has some deep themes.
Li sao (guqin song) Updated +Created
www.facebook.com/131402556881886/posts/655763214445815/ gives an origin:
Li Sao was composed by Cheng Kangshi in late Tang dynasty based on the poem Li Sao, authored by Qu Yuan (340-278 BC) in the Warring States period of ancient China.
The silkqin.com entry: www.silkqin.com/04qart/07sqmp/57ls.htm does not mention this however.
Video 2.
Lisao performed by NiniGuqin (2020)
Source.
Photon polarization Updated +Created
The knowledge that light is polarized precedes the knowledge of the existence of the photon, see polarization of light for the classical point of view.
The polarization state and how it can be decomposed into different modes can be well visualized with the Poincaré sphere.
One key idea about photon polarization is that it carries angular momentum. Therefore, when an electron changes orbitals in the Schrödinger equation solution for the hydrogen atom, the angular momentum (as well as energy) change is carried out by the polarization of the photon!
Video 1.
Quantum Mechanics 9b - Photon Spin and Schrodinger's Cat II by ViaScience (2013)
Source.
  • clear animations showing how two circular polarizations can make a vertical polarization
  • a polarizer can be modelled bra operator.
  • light polarization experiments are extremely direct evidence of quantum superposition. Individual photons must be on both L and R states at the same time because a V filter passes half of either L or R single photons, but it passes all L + R photons
Pineapple jelly with cream Updated +Created
December 2023: www.tudogostoso.com.br/receita/81176-gelatina-de-abacaxi-com-creme-de-leite.html Terribly explained recipe! Used 5 spoons of sugar rather than 10, and a 300ml cup of double cream. Turned out OK, except that the cream condensed all on top, and assumed the same coarse texture as when you do a fatty beaf and let it cool, so not so nice,
Maybe this would be more successful: receitas.globo.com/tipos-de-prato/doces-e-sobremesas/gelatina-de-abacaxi-4e64345bddf17214b4003e71.ghtml They also use condensed milk, and beat the cream with the jelly, so it might mix better? It didn't really.
June 2024: Now going for:
  • 4 cups of water
  • 1 spoon of sugar
  • just drop 150 ml double cream on top after jelly and mix with spoon since anything else was pointless to get mixture
For some reason it became too liquid this time, the jelly didn't work very well. Not sure why. The pinneapple was a bit large.
Pinto bean Updated +Created
This seems to be the "brown Brazilian bean" that many Brazilians eat every day.
Edit: after buying it, not 100% sure. This one felt smaller than what Ciro had in Brazil, borlotti beans might be closer. Pinto beans are smaller, and creamier, and have softer peel, possibly produced less natural gas.
2021-04: second try.
2021-03: did for first time, started with same procedure as borlotti beans 2021-03. Maybe 1h30 is too much. Outcome was still very good.
Browser game Updated +Created
There's a beauty in the portability of browser games.
The fact that the browser is not the main gaming platform as of 2020 shows how crappy web tech is. There is no fundamental reason why it shouldn't be so.
BSD conjecture bibliography Updated +Created
BSHUNTER: Detecting and Tracing Defects of Bitcoin Scripts Updated +Created
Authors: Peilin Zheng, Xiapu Luo, Zibin Zheng
Epic title.
B-tree Updated +Created
Like Binary search tree, but each node can have multiple objects and more than two children.
Bubble chamber Updated +Created
Bump function Updated +Created
CERN Updated +Created
pip (package manager) Updated +Created
How many stupid bugs. How many stupid bugs do we need to face???
Cambridgeshire Updated +Created
Video 1.
Being a Dickhead's Cool by Reuben Dangoor (2010)
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