Stack Overflow maximum 200 daily reputation limit Updated +Created
Why. Why. Why is there no limit to how much I can help, but there is a limit to how many thanks I can get?
At most, limit it to a single answer to avoid highly publicized events, e.g. an answer being shared on Reddit. But across answers? It makes no sense.
The two ways main ways to overcome this limit are the 15 point answer accept reputation and bounties.
200 reputation per day works out 73k a year BTW.
Discord (software) Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's discord ID: cirosantilli#8921. See also: how to contact Ciro Santilli.
You gotta be born after the year 2000 to understand it.
This is becoming more and more popular as a group chat with channels and threads possibility as of 2020.
Very similar to Slack.
Not possible to anonymously join just one server without creating a new account? What's the point of servers then! www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/6gmjl7/changing_nick_before_joining_a_new_server/ Oh, also nicks don't hide your username from the server in any way, you can get the original username by just clicking on the person's username.
No proper threaded discussion without creating new channels? As of 2022 there is kind of a way, but it was a bit obtuse.
As of 2022 they also have a school hub: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406046651927-Discord-Student-Hubs-FAQ which auto creates groups by university email access. Good idea, and shows popularity amongst that user group.
Shel Kaphan Updated +Created
First Amazon hire, wrote and led the team that wrote v1.
He looks like an older and more experienced dude compared to Bezos at the time.
Bibliography:
. www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1/2/ also mentions that unlike California, there's no sales tax in the state of Washington, which is important for selling books.
Video 1.
Shel Kaphan interview by Internet History Podcast (2015)
Source.
Video 2.
Amazon.com Continues to Grow by NBC 15 (2014)
Source. Features short excerpt of filmed interview with Shel.
Figure 1.
Shel Kaphan
. Source. TODO year. Presumably more or less close to publishing date of source at 2020.
Stern-Gerlach experiment Updated +Created
Originally done with (neutral) silver atoms in 1921, but even clearer theoretically was the hydrogen reproduction in 1927 by T. E. Phipps and J. B. Taylor.
The hydrogen experiment was apparently harder to do and the result is less visible, TODO why: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/33021/why-silver-atoms-were-used-in-stern-gerlach-experiment
Video 1.
The Stern-Gerlach Experiment by Educational Services, Inc (1967)
Source. Featuring MIT Professor Jerrold R. Zacharias. Amazing experimental setup demonstration, he takes apart much of the experiment to show what's going on.
Steve Wozniak plays magic the gathering Updated +Created
James Howells Updated +Created
Product definition of the exponential function Updated +Created
The basic intuition for this is to start from the origin and make small changes to the function based on its known derivative at the origin.
More precisely, we know that for any base b, exponentiation satisfies:
  • .
  • .
And we also know that for in particular that we satisfy the exponential function differential equation and so:
One interesting fact is that the only thing we use from the exponential function differential equation is the value around , which is quite little information! This idea is basically what is behind the importance of the ralationship between Lie group-Lie algebra correspondence via the exponential map. In the more general settings of groups and manifolds, restricting ourselves to be near the origin is a huge advantage.
Now suppose that we want to calculate . The idea is to start from and then then to use the first order of the Taylor series to extend the known value of to .
E.g., if we split into 2 parts, we know that:
or in three parts:
so we can just use arbitrarily many parts that are arbitrarily close to :
and more generally for any we have:
Let's see what happens with the Taylor series. We have near in little-o notation:
Therefore, for , which is near for any fixed :
and therefore:
which is basically the formula tha we wanted. We just have to convince ourselves that at , the disappears, i.e.:
To do that, let's multiply by itself once:
and multiplying a third time:
TODO conclude.
Oh, but there are 2 trees: local and remote Updated +Created
Oh but there are usually 2 trees: local and remote.
So you also have to learn how to observe and modify and sync with the remote tree!
But basically:
git fetch
to update the remote tree. And then you can use it exactly like any other branch, except you prefix them with the remote (usually origin/*), e.g.:
  • origin/master is the latest fetch of the remote version of master
  • origin/my-feature is the latest fetch of the remote version of my-feature
Early Google employee Updated +Created
ChatGPT produces:
  • Heather Cairns (Employee #4) - Joined in 1998. She handled HR and was one of the earliest administrative hires.
  • Harry Cheung (Employee #5) - Joined in 1999. An early engineer.
  • Gerald Aigner (Employee #6) - Hired in 1999. Worked as a software engineer.
  • Susan Wojcicki (Employee #16) - Joined in 1999. She rented her garage to Larry and Sergey in 1998 and later became an integral part of Google's business and advertising teams.
  • Marissa Mayer (Employee #20) - Hired in 1999. Played a major role in Google Search and design.
Omid Kordestani - Joined in 1999 as Google’s first business hire, focusing on sales and revenue generation.
How to learn Updated +Created
Spin like mad between:
Index 0 section Updated +Created
Contained in bytes 0x40 to 0x7F.
The first section is always magic: www.sco.com/developers/gabi/2003-12-17/ch4.sheader.html says:
If the number of sections is greater than or equal to SHN_LORESERVE (0xff00), e_shnum has the value SHN_UNDEF (0) and the actual number of section header table entries is contained in the sh_size field of the section header at index 0 (otherwise, the sh_size member of the initial entry contains 0).
There are also other magic sections detailed in Figure 4-7: Special Section Indexes.
Thali Updated +Created
Indian vegetarian thali is the best thing ever! The Southern version in particular. Also do watch a video on how to eat it.
A good place to have it abroad is Saravana Bhavan. The founder killed a dude to marry his wife, but failed and was sentenced to life prison. But he died in 2019 so we're all fine eating there now.
Figure 1. Source. This Wikipedia image of Thali is fundamentally wrong: you have to have a banana leaf on the bottom of the tray!
Suwu herding sheep Updated +Created
www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/traditional.html contains an amazing orchestral version for di flute TODO identify! When attempting to upload to YouTube, it identifies as "Su Wu Tending the Sheep" and give a name "Chen Tao", but no further information. Chen Tao is presumably this dude: www.barduschinamusic.org/chen-tao-dizi | www.melodyofdragon.org/chentao.html 陈涛
baike.baidu.com/item/苏武牧羊/5532#11_2 mentions that it comes from an erhu concerto composed by Peng Xiuwen
The sadness of the erhu perfectly fits the role and mood of the story! Brilliant!
Nvidia Updated +Created
Open source driver/hardware interface specification??? E.g. on Ubuntu, a large part of the nastiest UI breaking bugs Ciro Santilli encountered over the years have been GPU related. Do you think that is a coincidence??? E.g. ubuntu 21.10 does not wake up from suspend.
Video 1.
Linus Torvalds saying "Nvidia Fuck You" (2012)
Source.
Video 2.
How Nvidia Won Graphics Cards by Asianometry (2021)
Source.
Video 3.
How Nvidia Won AI by Asianometry (2022)
Source.
Global file structure Updated +Created
An ELF file contains the following parts:
  • ELF header. Points to the position of the section header table and the program header table.
  • Section header table (optional on executable). Each has e_shnum section headers, each pointing to the position of a section.
  • N sections, with N <= e_shnum (optional on executable)
  • Program header table (only on executable). Each has e_phnum program headers, each pointing to the position of a segment.
  • N segments, with N <= e_phnum (only on executable)
The order of those parts is not fixed: the only fixed thing is the ELF header that must be the first thing on the file: Generic docs say:
Although the figure shows the program header table immediately after the ELF header, and the section header table following the sections, actual files may differ. Moreover, sections and segments have no specified order. Only the ELF header has a fixed position in the file.
In pictures: sample object file with three sections:
            +-------------------+
            | ELF header        |---+
+---------> +-------------------+   | e_shoff
|           |                   |<--+
| Section   | Section header 0  |
|           |                   |---+ sh_offset
| Header    +-------------------+   |
|           | Section header 1  |---|--+ sh_offset
| Table     +-------------------+   |  |
|           | Section header 2  |---|--|--+
+---------> +-------------------+   |  |  |
            | Section 0         |<--+  |  |
            +-------------------+      |  | sh_offset
            | Section 1         |<-----+  |
            +-------------------+         |
            | Section 2         |<--------+
            +-------------------+
But nothing (except sanity) prevents the following topology:
            +-------------------+
            | ELF header        |---+ e_shoff
            +-------------------+   |
            | Section 1         |<--|--+
+---------> +-------------------+   |  |
|           |                   |<--+  | sh_offset
| Section   | Section header 0  |      |
|           |                   |------|---------+
| Header    +-------------------+      |         |
|           | Section header 1  |------+         |
| Table     +-------------------+                |
|           | Section header 2  |---+            | sh_offset
+---------> +-------------------+   | sh_offset  |
            | Section 2         |<--+            |
            +-------------------+                |
            | Section 0         |<---------------+
            +-------------------+
But some newbies may prefer PNGs :-)
Figure 1.
ELF Executable and Linkable Format diagram by Ange Albertini
. Source.
Synchronous dynamic random-access memory Updated +Created
The beauty of alebraic geometry Updated +Created
Lagrangian mechanics lectures by Michel van Biezen (2017) Updated +Created
Original playlist name: "PHYSICS 68 ADVANCED MECHANICS: LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS"
Author: Michel van Biezen.
High school classical mechanics material, no mention of the key continuous symmetry part.
But does have a few classic pendulum/pulley/spring worked out examples that would be really wise to get under your belt first.

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