Solid Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's Edict #5 / Staging server Updated 2025-07-16
After breaking production and sweating for a bit hotfixing (not that anyone uses the website yet), I decided to be smart and created a staging server: ourbigbook-staging.herokuapp.com. Now I can blow that server up as I wish without afecting users. Documented at: cirosantilli.com/ourbigbook/staging-deployment
Consistency Updated 2025-07-16
A set of axioms is consistent if they don't lead to any contradictions.
When a set of axioms is not consistent, false can be proven, and then everything is true, making the set of axioms useless.
Nucleosome Updated 2025-07-16
Ciphertext Updated 2025-07-16
Fix it twice Updated 2025-07-16
Imagenette Updated 2025-07-16
An imagenet10 subset by fast.ai.
Size of full sized image version: 1.5 GB.
Experimental physics Updated 2025-07-16
Experiment and theory are like the yin and yang: opposites, but one cannot exist without the other.
Invariance of the speed of light Updated 2025-07-16
This single experimental observation/idea is the basis for all of special relativity.
Special relativity is the direct result of people bending their backs to accommodate for this really weird fact.
Isomer Updated 2025-07-16
Isomers were quite confusing for early chemists, before atomic theory was widely accepted, and people where thinking mostly in terms of proportions of equations, related: Section "Isomers suggest that atoms exist".

Unlisted articles are being shown, click here to show only listed articles.