Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

MOOCs are a bad idea. We don't want to simply map the pre-computer classroom to the Internet. The Internet allows, and requires, fundamentally new ways to do things. More like Stack Overflow/Wikipedia. More like OurBigBook.com.

Not "Yt" because that is already "Yttrium". God.

Docker is good.

As a lightweight virtualization however, it does break more often than full proper virtualization like QEMU after some updates.

The images also appear to randomly update slightly and break things, even though you've specified e.g.:

Also, we need more Linux distributions buildable from source, especially with Reproducible builds.

In a vector space, a metric may be induced from a norm by using subtraction:

When Ciro finally understood that this is a play on Larry Page's name (of course it is, typical programmer/academic humor stuff), his mind blew.

The basic experiment for a photonic quantum computer.

Can be achieved in two ways it seems:

Animation of Hong-Ou-Mandel Effect on a silicon like structure by Quantum Light University of Sheffield (2014): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2r2IMt4vg No maths, but gives the result clear: the photons are always on the same side.