OurBigBook.com GitHub Updated 2025-07-16
If Ciro Santilli were to write a book about quantum mechanics as of 2020 (before OurBigBook.com went live), he would upload an OurBigBook Markup website to GitHub Pages.
But there is one major problem with that: the entry barrier for new contributors is very large.
If they submit a pull request, Ciro has to review it, otherwise, no one will ever see it.
Our amazing website would allow the reader to add his own example of, say, The uncertainty principle, whenever they wants, under the appropriate section.
OurBigBook.com Other projects Updated 2025-07-16
- HyperCard: we are kind of a "multiuser" version of HyperCard, trying to tie up cards made by different users. It is worth noting that HyperCard was one of the inspirations for WikiWikiWeb, which then inspired Wikipedia
- Semantic Web
- NLab
- physicstravelguide.com/ Nice manifesto: physicstravelguide.com/about by Jakob Schwichtenberg.
- OpenStax
- www.ft.com/content/5515ec3e-0040-4d90-85a9-df19d6e3ebd2 (archive) Twilio’s Jeff Lawson: an evangelist for software developersYou can never be first. But you can have the correct business model. That company's website must have gone into IP Purgatory, and could never be released as an open source website.As a student at the University of Michigan, he started a company that made lecture notes available free online, drawing a large audience of Midwestern college students and, soon enough, advertisers. At the height of the dotcom bubble, he dropped out of college, raised $10m from the venture firm Venrock and moved the company to Silicon Valley.His start-up drew interest from an acquirer that was planning to go public early in 2000. They closed the acquisition but missed their IPO window as the market plunged, and by August the company had filed for bankruptcy. Stock that Lawson and investors in his start-up received from the sale became worthless.He might actually be interested in donating to OurBigBook.com if it move forward now that he's a billionaire.
- Knol: basically the exact same thing by Google but 14 years earlier and declared a failure. Quite ominous:
- leanpub: similar goals, markdown-based, but the usual "you own your book copyright and you are trying to sell your book" approach
- nature Scitable
OK, just going random now:
Physical layer Updated 2025-07-16
This one is not generally seen by software, which mostly operates starting from OSI layer 2.
Digital storage oscilloscope Updated 2025-07-16
PC-based oscilloscope Updated 2025-07-16
Cheap oscilloscope Updated 2025-07-16
Open source oscilloscope Updated 2025-07-16
Unitary matrix Updated 2025-07-16
Complex analogue of orthogonal matrix.
Applications:
- in quantum computers programming basically comes down to creating one big unitary matrix as explained at: quantum computing is just matrix multiplication
Definition of the orthogonal group Updated 2025-07-16
Mathematical definition that most directly represents this: the orthogonal group is the group of all matrices that preserve the dot product.
Topology of the orthogonal group Updated 2025-07-16
Lie algebra of Updated 2025-07-16
Special orthogonal group Updated 2025-07-16
Unitary group Updated 2025-07-16
Group of the unitary matrices.
Complex analogue of the orthogonal group.
One notable difference from the orthogonal group however is that the unitary group is connected "because" its determinant is not fixed to two disconnected values 1/-1, but rather goes around in a continuous unit circle. is the unit circle.
Organic compound identification Updated 2025-07-16
Methane Updated 2025-07-16
Ethanol Updated 2025-07-16
Capsaicin Updated 2025-07-16
Active compound in pepper.
Nitroglycerin Updated 2025-07-16
Unordered tree Updated 2025-07-16
Laser cooling Updated 2025-07-16
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