Genetics by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
High level DNA studies? :-)
Fick's laws of diffusion by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Object-relational mapping by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Cultured meat by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
This is something worth investigating!
Video 1.
Inside the Quest to Make Lab Grown Meat by WIRED (2018)
Source.
Interviews with a few startups in the area, most of the time with Eat Just.
youtu.be/QO9SS1NS6MM?t=217 taught Ciro Santilli something he really appreciated: uncanny valley.
Point group by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Quantum chemistry software by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Kin punishment by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Private university by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Projective special linear group by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
List of programming languages by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Field-programmable gate array by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
It basically replaces a bunch of discrete digital components with a single chip. So you don't have to wire things manually.
Particularly fundamental if you would be putting those chips up a thousand cell towers for signal processing, and ever felt the need to reprogram them! Resoldering would be fun, would it? So you just do a over the wire update of everything.
Vs a microcontroller: same reason why you would want to use discrete components: speed. Especially when you want to do a bunch of things in parallel fast.
One limitation is that it only handles digital electronics: electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25525/are-there-any-analog-fpgas There are some analog analogs, but they are much more restricted due to signal loss, which is exactly what digital electronics is very good at mitigating.
Video 1.
First FPGA experiences with a Digilent Cora Z7 Xilinx Zynq by Marco Reps (2018)
Source. Good video, actually gives some rationale of a use case that a microcontroller wouldn't handle because it is not fast enough.
Video 2.
FPGA Dev Board Tutorial by Ben Heck (2016)
Source.
Video 3.
The History of the FPGA by Asianometry (2022)
Source.
Parallel evolution by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
The cool thing about parallel evolution is that it shows how complex phenotype can evolve from very different initial genetic conditions, highlighting the great power of evolution.
We list some cool ones at: polyphyly.
Charlie Wilson's War by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 1.
The Nerdy Kid in the White Shirt scene from Charlie Wilson's War
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Video 2.
The old man lost his horse scene from Charlie Wilson's War
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Blood agent by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Planck constant by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Proportionality factor in the Planck-Einstein relation between light energy and frequency.
And analogously for matter, appears in the de Broglie relations relating momentum and frequency. Also appears in the Schrödinger equation, basically as a consequence/cause of the de Broglie relations most likely.
Intuitively, the Planck constant determines at what length scale do quantum effects start to show up for a given energy scale. It is because the Plank constant is very small that we don't perceive quantum effects on everyday energy/length/time scales. On the , quantum mechanics disappears entirely.
A very direct way of thinking about it is to think about what would happen in a double-slit experiment. TODO think more clearly what happens there.
Defined exactly in the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units to:
Merck Group by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Richard Feynman's drug use by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman chapter O Americano, Outra Vez!:
The people from the airlines were somewhat bored with their lives, strangely enough, and at night they would often go to bars to drink. I liked them all, and in order to be sociable, I would go with them to the bar to have a few drinks, several nights a week.
One day, about 3:30 in the afternoon, I was walking along the sidewalk opposite the beach at Copacabana past a bar. I suddenly got this treMENdous, strong feeling: "That's just what I want; that'll fit just right. I'd just love to have a drink right now!"
I started to walk into the bar, and I suddenly thought to myself, "Wait a minute! It's the middle of the afternoon. There's nobody here, There's no social reason to drink. Why do you have such a terribly strong feeling that you have to have a drink?" - and I got scared.
I never drank ever again, since then. I suppose I really wasn't in any danger, because I found it very easy to stop. But that strong feeling that I didn't understand frightened me. You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. It's the same reason that, later on, I was reluctant to try experiments with LSD in spite of my curiosity about hallucinations.
One notable drug early teens Ciro consumed was Magic: The Gathering, see also: Section "Magic: The Gathering is addictive".

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