CIA usage of Domains by Proxy Updated 2025-07-16
The CIA really likes this registrar, e.g.:
- CIA 2010 covert communication websites
- 2014 www.newsweek.com/former-cia-officials-ready-defend-agency-after-torture-reports-release-290383A group of former CIA officials are gearing up to defend the agency when the Senate releases its long-awaited report investigating "enhanced interrogation" tactics used on prisoners after 9/11. The highlight of their PR push will be a website, "CIASAVEDLIVES.COM," which is set to go live when the report is released on Tuesday, Foreign Policy reported.
World Wide Web Consortium Updated 2025-07-16
Topology in condensed matter Updated 2025-07-16
Previously on EdX: www.edx.org/learn/quantum-physics-mechanics/delft-university-of-technology-topology-in-condensed-matter-tying-quantum-knots "DelftX: Topology in Condensed Matter: Tying Quantum Knots".
But then they regained their sanity and put the source code on GitHub: github.com/topocm/topocm_content and is CC BY-SA.
The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable by Adrian Chen Updated 2025-07-16
Questions for Ciro Santilli's future self Updated 2025-07-16
Future self, answer these.
20 years
- 2018-2038: are companies offering free full genome decoding just to get your genomic data and sell it to pharma companies?Someone like Ciro then creates an open source genomic database funded by health organizations that publishes genomes + phenotypes anonymously. Genome to phenotype analytics go crazy big.
40 years:
- 2017-2057: was human level AI reached (by non-bio devices :-)), even if very slow?
- 2017-2057: did China become democratic?
- 2018-2058: did impressive brain-computer interfaces show up?
Quasiparticles vs elementary particles Updated 2025-07-16
As a phisicist once amazingly put it in a talk Ciro watched:
It all depends on how much energy you have to probe nature with. Previously, we thought protons were elementary particles. But then we used more energy and found that they aren't.If some alien race had even less energy, they might not know about electrons at all, and could think that anyons are actually elementary.Being an "elementary particle" is always a possibly temporary label.
Bitcoin HOWTO Updated 2025-07-16
Bitcoin protocol Updated 2025-07-16
Quantum tunnelling Updated 2025-07-16
Examples:
- flash memory uses quantum tunneling as the basis for setting and resetting bits
- alpha decay is understood as a quantum tunneling effect in the nucleus
Open source LLM Updated 2025-07-19
Magazine Updated 2025-07-16
f3d Updated 2025-07-16
Craig Steven Wright Updated 2025-07-16
This dude actually managed to convince a brain-dead British court that he was Satoshi and force a takedown of the Bitcoin whitepaper from bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf where it had been for many years prior: coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/bitcoin-org-ordered-to-take-down-bitcoin-whitepaper-because-of-copyright-infringement The page was updated to simply display the following Satoshi quote:
It takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle. - Satoshi Nakamoto
The mere thought that Satoshi would attempt to copyright takedown the Bitcoin whitepaper, and not be able to back his identidy with any cryptographic keys, makes one shrivel to the bones.
Also, kids, this is why you put a fucking license on everything you release to the public, and especially when doing so anonymously!!! A quick CC BY-SA on that paper would have prevented all this bullshit.
The existence of this outrageous fraudster has had two good effects on the world however it must be said:
- the release of Adam Back and Martti Malmi early email history with Satoshi: www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/02/23/new-emails-reveal-staggering-clues-to-the-mystery-of-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto
- the memes: Craig Steven Wright memes
Timeline:
- 2015-12-08 Wired article claims he may be Satoshi: www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-this-unknown-australian-genius/. A few days later, evidence of foul play emerged, and on 2019-04-30 Wired retracted the article altogether
- 2016-05-02 publicly claims he is Satoshi www.timesofisrael.com/australian-entrepreneur-craig-wright-says-he-created-bitcoin/
- 2024-05-20 British judge James Mellor fisting the fuck out of Craig: www.reuters.com/technology/self-proclaimed-bitcoin-inventor-lied-repeatedly-support-claim-says-uk-judge-2024-05-20/
An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin lied "extensively and repeatedly" and forged documents "on a grand scale" to support his false claim, a judge at London's High Court ruled on Monday.
Interesting
- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4i7k9a/strange_edits_on_craig_wrights_wikipedia_page/ "Strange edits on Craig Wright's Wikipedia page made two days before the revelation, from an IP address in Barbados (possibly made by Craig himself?)"
Quantum superposition Updated 2025-07-16
Quantum superposition is really weird because it is fundamentally different than "either definite state but I don't know which", because the superposition state leads to different measurements than the non-superposition state.
Examples:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8gVXDsh7Q "Interference in quantum mechanics" by Looking Glass Universe (2015) shows how a left-right spin measurement has a defined value for a superposed half up half down state, but not for a pure up state.TODO can this be conducted? As mentioned in the video, this is closely linked to the fact that you can describe the wave function in multiple different bases (up/down or left/right), which is also at the root of the uncertainty principle.
- Video "Quantum Mechanics 9b - Photon Spin and Schrodinger's Cat II by ViaScience (2013)" gives a similar photon version
- it seems that the single particle double slit experiment can also be thought of as in terms of a superposition of "the particle goes through the right" and "the particle goes through the right", although it is a bit harder to thing about as it is not a discrete process
Quantum statistical mechanics Updated 2025-07-16
Bibliography:
OpenCourseWare Updated 2025-07-16
Nvidia GPU Updated 2025-07-16
Quantum Processes and Computation course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16
2022 page: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/quantum/ (archive). Assignments are available:
- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment1.pdf
- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment2.pdf
- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment3.pdf
- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment4.pdf
- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment5.pdf
- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment6.pdf
2022 lecturer: Aleks Kissinger
The course would be better named ZX-calculus as it appears to be the only subject covered.
Quantum physics by Jim Branson (2003) Updated 2025-07-16
Last updated: 2013.
There were apparently some lecture videos at: web.archive.org/web/20030604194654/http://physicsstream.ucsd.edu/courses/spring2003/physics130a/ as pointed out by Matthew Heaney[ref], .mov files can be found at: web.archive.org/web/*/http://physicsstream.ucsd.edu/courses/spring2003/physics130a/*, but we were yet unable to open them, related:
Open Textbook Library Updated 2025-07-16
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.