China's Making x86 Processors by Asianometry (2021)
Source. They put a lot of expensive equipment together, much of it made by other companies, and they make the entire chip for companies ordering them.
That makes Ciro Santilli most mad about this film is the fact that the dude was passionate about writing, and when he became a genius, rather than write the best novels ever written, he decided instead to play the stock market instead. This paints an accurate picture of 2020's society, where finance jobs make infinitely more money than other real engineering jobs, and end up attracting much of the talent.
Another enraging thing is how his girlfriend starts liking him again once he is a genius, and instead of telling her to fuck off, he stays with her.
The other really bad thing is the ending. He fixed the drug by himself? He scared off De Niro just like that?
This film is really good.
Replacement of master and slave terminology from technology by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-03-28 +Created 1970-01-01
The IETF was a notable one: www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/technology/racist-computer-engineering-terms-ietf.html
- developers.google.com/style/word-list (archive) Google's avoid word list is a masterclass in 2020's political correctness
Oscillator made of an LC circuit.
Amazingly confirms the wave particle duality of quantum mechanics.
The effect is even more remarkable when done with individual particles such individual photons or electrons.
Richard Feynman liked to stress how this experiment can illustrate the core ideas of quantum mechanics. Notably, he night have created the infinitely many slits thought experiment which illustrates the path integral formulation.
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac (1930) by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-03-28 +Created 1970-01-01
Software that maps higher level languages like Qiskit into actual quantum circuits.
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