Jeremy O'Brien Updated 2025-07-16
TransferWise Updated 2025-07-16
This is a good company, first they truly helped reduce international transfer fees. They they continued to morph into a decent challenger bank.
Brick and mortar banks were way way behind in that regard!
E.g. October 2023, Wise was doing 4.87% interest after fees, while Barclay's best option was 1.16% above 5k pounds on the Rainy Day Saver (5% below). Ridiculous!
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Coprime Updated 2025-07-16
Limits of gel electrophoresis Updated 2025-07-16
Point particle Updated 2025-07-16
This idealization does not seems to be possible at all in the context of Maxwell's equations with pointlike particles.
Taylor expansion definition of the exponential function Updated 2025-07-16
The Taylor series expansion is the most direct definition of the expontial as it obviously satisfies the exponential function differential equation:
Transistor Updated 2025-07-16
Although transistors were revolutionary, it is fun to note that they were just "way cheaper and more reliable and smaller" versions of exactly the main functions that a vacuum tube could achieve
Translation (biology) Updated 2025-07-16
Political correctness Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli believes it generally hurts more than it helps.
Especially when you can't even mention censored things to criticize them. You have to pretend they never existed. So people will forget about them, and do them again in the future.
Representation of the Lorentz group Updated 2025-07-16
One of the representations of the Lorentz group that show up in the Representation theory of the Lorentz group.
State of the art Updated 2025-07-16
The Final Encyclopedia Updated 2025-07-16
Transmission electron microscopy Updated 2025-07-16
Transmission Electron Microscope by LD SEF (2019)
Source. Images some gold nanopraticles 5-10 nm. You can also get crystallographic information directly on the same machine. German learned society Updated 2025-07-16
Helium Updated 2025-07-16
Oxygen Updated 2025-07-16
PostgreSQL Updated 2025-07-16
PostgreSQL feels good.
Its feature set is insanely large! Just look at stuff like: stackoverflow.com/questions/1986491/sql-split-string-by-space-into-table-in-postgresql/1993058#1993058
If Oracle is the Microsoft of database, Postgres is the Linux, and MySQL (or more precisely MariaDB) is the FreeBSD (i.e. the one that got delayed by legal issues). Except that their software licenses were accidentally swapped.
The only problem with Postgres is its name. PostgreSQL is so unpronounceable and so untypeable that you should just call it "Postgres" like everyone else.
PostgreSQL logging Updated 2025-07-16
Ubuntu 21.10 has a certain default level of logging by default to:but it does not log everything, only/mostly errors it seems.
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-13-main.logSetting:under:and then restarting the server:just works.
log_statement = 'all'/etc/postgresql/13/main/postgresql.confsudo service restart postgresqlRealtime monitoring for long queries instead: stackoverflow.com/questions/8597516/app-to-monitor-postgresql-queries-in-real-time
Transmon Updated 2025-07-16
Used e.g. in the Sycamore processor.
The most basic type of transmon is in Ciro's ASCII art circuit diagram notation, an LC circuit e.g. as mentioned at youtu.be/cb_f9KpYipk?t=180 from Video "The transmon qubit by Leo Di Carlo (2018)":
+----------+
| Island 1 |
+----------+
| |
X C
| |
+----------+
| Island 2 |
+----------+youtu.be/eZJjQGu85Ps?t=2443 from Video "Superconducting Qubits I Part 1 by Zlatko Minev (2020)" describes a (possibly simplified) physical model of it, as two superconducting metal islands linked up by a Josephson junction marked as The circuit is then analogous to a LC circuit, with the islands being the capacitor. The Josephson junction functions as a non-linear inductor.
X in the diagram as per-Ciro's ASCII art circuit diagram notation:+-------+ +-------+
| | | |
| Q_1() |---X---| Q_2() |
| | | |
+-------+ +-------+Others define it with a SQUID device instead: youtu.be/cb_f9KpYipk?t=328 from Video "The transmon qubit by Leo Di Carlo (2018)". He mentions that this allows tuning the inductive element without creating a new device.
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