Partial index partial derivative notation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This notation is not so common in basic mathematics, but it is so incredibly convenient, especially with Einstein notation as shown at Section "Einstein notation for partial derivatives":
This notation is similar to partial label partial derivative notation, but it uses indices instead of labels such as , , etc.
Read-modify-write by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
That's what usually fucks up parallel programs.
Action plan by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The steps are sorted in roughly chronological order. The project might fail at any point, and some steps may be carried in parallel:
  • make OurBigBook Markup good enough, to the point that it allows to create a static version of the website, which is used to prototype certain ideas, and for Ciro to start writing test content.
    Status March 2022: reached a point that it is already highly usable. The following website may continue.
  • create a basic implementation of the website, without advanced features like PageRank sorting and WYSIWYG. This is not much more than a blog with some extra metadata, so it is definitely achievable with constrained resources.
  • find a university teacher would would like to try it out.
    Ciro would like to volunteer to work for free for this teacher and students to help the students learn.
    He would like act like a "super student" who has a lot of free time and motivation.
    Ciro would start by mapping the headers of the lecture notes onto the website, and then slowly adding content as he feels the need to improve certain explanations.
    Finding teachers willing to allow this will be a major roadblock: how to convince teachers to use CC BY-SA.
    If such enlightened teacher is found, it will allow for the initial validation of the website, to decide what kind of tweaking the idea might need, and start uploading quality technical content to the site.
  • once some level of validation as been done, Ciro will start looking for charitable charitable grant opportunities more aggressively
  • if things seem to be working, start adding more advance features: PageRank-like ranking sorting and WYSIWYG editing
    The recommendation algorithms notably is left for a second stage because it needs real world data to be tested. And at the beginning, before Eternal September kicks in, there would be few posts written by well educated university students, so a simple sort by upvote would likely be good enough.
Ciro decided to start with a decent markup language with a decent implementation: OurBigBook Markup. Once that gets reasonable, he will move on to another attempt at the website itself.
The project description was originally at: github.com/cirosantilli/write-free-science-books-to-get-famous-website but being migrated here. The original working project name was "Write free books to get famous website", until Ciro decided to settle for OurBigBook.com and fixed the domain name.
Orthonormality by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Variational formulation of a partial differential equation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Used for example in FreeFem and FEniCS Project as the input description of the PDEs, TODO why.
Radioactive decay by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli finds it interesting that radioactive decay basically kickstarted the domain of nuclear physics by essentially providing a natural particle accelerator from a chunk of radioactive element.
The discovery process was particularly interesting, including Henri Becquerel's luck while observing phosphorescence, and Marie Curie's observation that the uranium ore were more radioactive than pure uranium, and must therefore contain other even more radioactive substances, which lead to the discovery of polonium (half-life 138 days) and radium (half-life 1600 years).
Nintendo video game console by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Robin boundary condition by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Linear combination of a Dirichlet boundary condition and Neumann boundary condition at each point of the boundary.
Examples:
Diagonal matrix by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Symmetric matrix by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Symmetric bilinear map by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Subcase of symmetric multilinear map:
Requires the two inputs and to be in the same vector space of course.
The most important example is the dot product, which is also a positive definite symmetric bilinear form.
BioCyc by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Very good metabolism database.
Some things that they have of interest which may not be on NCBI:
Hits a free login wall after a few IP hits. And just a very normal casually browsing number of hits. What is this bullshit?
Central dogma of molecular biology by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Bohr model by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Was the first model to explain the Balmer series, notably linking atomic spectra to the Planck constant and therefore to other initial quantum mechanical observations.
This was one of the first major models that just said:
I give up, I can't tie this to classical physics in any way, let's just roll with it, OK?
It still treats electrons as little points spinning around the nucleus, but it makes the non-classical postulate that only certain angular momentums (and therefore energies) are allowed.
Bibliography:
Sci-Inspi (YouTube channel) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The channel is also notable for the fact that the author makes his own music.
Video 1.
Behind the Scenes by Sci-Inspi (2020)
Source. His name is Manuael, aka Manu, and he is the chemistry lab technician at a community college.
Pseudometric space by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Metric space but where the distance between two distinct points can be zero.
Notable example: Minkowski space.
BBC by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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