Theodicy by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Real projective line by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Just a circle.
Take with a line at . Identify all the points that an observer
Real line by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Complex coordinate space by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Stack Overflow by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The best place to get answers to programming questions as of 2019. Google into Stack Overflow is always the best bet.
An overview of Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contribution can be found at: Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions.
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Stack Overflow in a nutshell
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As the "WTF look at my points" guy, Ciro Santilli approves of this meme. A few more elements could be added, notably deletion of the last link-only answer, but good enough.
By the profile image, the "Grammar Nazi" editor is actually appropriately the notorious serial editor Peter Mortensen. Ciro Santilli welcomes grammar fixes, but more subjective style fixes can be a bit annoying.
Figure 2.
Catching mice by Nakanoart
. Possible non-canonical source: twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1376023938749190147
Figure 3.
How stack overflow hires meme using Welcome Aboard! meme template
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Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Thiel Fellowship by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli approves of this one, related: Section "Free gifted education".
The downside of the Thiel Fellowship is that it is realistically impossible for its fellows to do anything in deep tech, only information science startups would be possible, as they would not have the labs, or lab skills required for any deep tech if they drop out before a PhD. Related: Section "The only reason for universities to exist should be the laboratories".
The only solution is the harder process of actually remodelling our very broken educational system.
Taylor series by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Octahedron by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Activism by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Shelter Island Conference by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Sponsored by National Academy of Sciences, located in Long Island.
This is where Isidor Rabi exposed experiments carried out on the anomalous magnetic dipole moment and Willis Lamb presented his work on the Lamb shift.
It was a very private and intimate conference, that gathered the best physicists of the area, one is reminded of the style of the Solvay Conference.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
David Tong by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
A charismatic, perfect-English-accent (Received Pronunciation) physicist from University of Cambridge, specializing in quantum field theory.
He has done several "vulgarization" lectures, some of which could be better called undergrad appetizers rather, a notable example being Video "Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe by David Tong (2017)" for the prestigious Royal Institution, but remains a hardcore researcher: scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=felFiY4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate. Lots of open access publications BTW, so kudos.
The amount of lecture notes on his website looks really impressive: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teaching.html, he looks like a good educator.
David has also shown some interest in applications of high energy mathematical ideas to condensed matter, e.g. links between the renormalization group and phase transition phenomena. TODO there was a YouTube video about that, find it and link here.
Ciro Santilli wonders if his family is of East Asian, origin and if he can still speak any east asian languages. "Tong" is of course a transcription of several major Chinese surnames and from looks he could be mixed blood, but as mentioned at www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=tong it can also be an English "metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of tongs". After staring at his picture for a while Ciro is going with the maker of tongs theory initially.
Henri Becquerel by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
WTF is wrong with that family???
James Clerk Maxwell by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
John Bardeen by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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The Story of John Bardeen at the University of Illinois (2010)
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Leonard Susskind by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The bald confident chilled out particle physics guy from Stanford University!
One can't help but wonder if he smokes pot or not.
Also one can't stop thinking abot Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory upoen hearing his name.
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Leonard Susskind lecturing in 2013
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Marie Curie by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Like all big names in science, she was at the right place at the right time and with the right interest and passion.
Notably, the man she married, Pierre Curie, happened to be a the world master at precisely the technique that she needed to carefully measure radioactivity: he had the most precise electrometers in the world, which allowed to detect small amounts of radioactivity via the ionization of air by radiation . These used piezoelectricity, which Pierre Curie co-discovered with his brother.
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Marie Curie section of The Mystery of Matter episode 2
. Source. Fantastic illustration of Marie's life and work!
  • youtu.be/wbuDmY5gpXQ?t=2041 she specifically avoided X-ray research because she felt that there was too much competition in that area. TODO find a written reference about that and add it to Wikipedia.
Niels Bohr by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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