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Okular Updated +Created
This is generally good, especially compared to how crappy Evince, the default Ubuntu one, has been around 2014-2020.
Stars nearest to the Sun Updated +Created
Figure 2.
Distance of stars nearest to the Sun as function of time
. Source.
Some notable ones:
  • Proxima Centauri, the nearest one, at 4 ly. It is part of the Alpha Centauri star system, which contains two other stars at very similar distances as well, and their relative distances to earth will change positions in a few tens of thousands of years.
  • Sirius, the brightest star in the sky at 9 ly
Wikipedia analytics Updated +Created
Wikimedia Foundation Updated +Created
Scientific autobiography by Max Planck (1948) Updated +Created
quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/25/progress/ on Quote Investigator says it appeared in 1948. Can't easily check, but will believe it for now.
Paper by Max Planck Updated +Created
Quantum Mechanical View of Reality by Richard Feynman (1983) Updated +Created
Basically the same content as: Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979), but maybe there is some merit to this talk, as it is a bit more direct in some points. This is consistent with what is mentioned at www.feynman.com/science/qed-lectures-in-new-zealand/ that the Auckland lecture was the first attempt.
Some more information at: iucat.iu.edu/iub/5327621
By Mill Valley, CA based producer "Sound Photosynthesis", some info on their website: sound.photosynthesis.com/Richard_Feynman.html
They are mostly a New Age production company it seems, which highlights Feynman's absolute cult status. E.g. on the last video, he's not wearing shoes, like a proper guru.
Feynman liked to meet all kinds of weird people, and at some point he got interested in the New Age Esalen Institute. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman this kind of experience a bit, there was nude bathing on a pool that oversaw the sea, and a guy offered to give a massage to the he nude girl and the accepted.
youtu.be/rZvgGekvHest=5105 actually talks about spin, notably that the endpoint events also have a spin, and that the transition rules take spin into account by rotating thing, and that the transition rules take spin into account by rotating things.
Oceania Updated +Created
Independence (mathematical logic) Updated +Created
A theorem is said to be independent from a set of axioms if it cannot be proven neither true nor false from those axioms.
It or its negation could therefore be arbitrarily added to the set of axioms.
Old quantum theory Updated +Created
Raster graphics Updated +Created
Represents image pixel by pixel, rather than by mathematical primitives such as done in vector graphics:
OneZoom Updated +Created
Interesting fractal approach to a phylogenetic tree: www.onezoom.org/
Mostly data driven.
Radio Updated +Created
Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais (1982) Updated +Created
Los Alamos From Below by Richard Feynman (1975) Updated +Created
Amazing talk by Richard Feynman that describes his experiences at Los Alamos National Laboratory while developing the first nuclear weapons.
  • www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-u1qyRM5w&t=2881s describes the computing aspects. Particularly interesting is the quote about how they used the typist secretary pool to emulate the IBM machines and debug their programs before the machines had arrived. This is exactly analogous to what is done in 2020 in the semiconductor industry, where slower models are used to estimate how future algorithms will run in future hardware.
Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms Updated +Created
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