Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

A bit like a cult.

Many speakers are good. But especially in TEDx, we've had some notorious ones:

The bane of multicellularity.

Ideally can be thought of as a one-way ticket gate that only lets electrons go in one direction with zero resistance! Real devices do have imperfections however, so there is some resistance.

First they were made out of vacuum tubes, but later semiconductor diodes were invented and became much more widespread.

The "0-width" pulse distribution that integrates to a step.

There's not way to describe it as a classical function, making it the most important example of a distribution.

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