The BBC 1979-1982 adaptations of John Le Carré's novels are the best miniseries ever made:They are the most realistic depiction of spycraft ever made.
Some honorable mentions:
- Futurama
- S02E15 The Problem With Popplers, see also: animal rights. There has to be prior art on this idea, there has to, can someone please point it out?
- S06E09 A Clockwork Origin
- Rick and Morty before it turned to shit on season 3 had some genius moments:
- S02E04 Total Rickall
- Rick and Morty A Life Well Lived
Geographic information system file format by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
Combination of electromagnetism and general relativity. Unlike combining quantum mechanics and general relativity, this combination was easier.
TODO any experiments of interest at all?
Ciro Santilli considered this as the basis for Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games, but ultimately decided it was a bit too messy. Nice overall though.
First proper nearest galaxy to the Milky Way. Everything in the middle in the Local group is either a satellite of the Milky Way or Andromeda.
As described on Wikipedia, the observational history of Andromeda is fascinating. Little by little, people noticed that it had a different nature to many other objects observed on the sky, and the hypothesis that there are other galaxies like ours grew in force.
Part of our fascination with Andromeda is due to how similar in size and shape and close it is to the Milky Way.
It is clearly the only thing so large and so close.
One can't help but wonder if there is some alien looking back at us when we are looking at them through our telescope.
Andromeda is also the furthest object from Earth that can be seen with the naked eye.[ref] Not surprising, as it literally shines with the strength of a trillion suns!
Andromeda Shun from Saint Seiya performing his Nebula Chain attack
. Source. The original Japanese music actually says "Nebula Chain" in English. The Andromeda Galaxy is shown on the back, the chain appears to go all the way to it and back towards the evil guys' head. Not very relativistic, but so be it.Ciro Santilli considered it before he stopped using file managers altogether, it is not bad.
Exponential function differential equation by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
TODO find better name for it, "linear homogenous differential equation of degree one" almost fully constrainst it except for the exponent constant and initial value.
Ciro Santilli learned this expression from Angry Video Game Nerd.
In the context of tensors , we use raised indices to refer to members of the dual basis vs the underlying basis:The dual basis vectors are defined to "pick the corresponding coordinate" out of elements of V. E.g.:By expanding into the basis, we can put this more succinctly with the Kronecker delta as:
Note that in Einstein notation, the components of a dual vector have lower indices. This works well with the upper case indices of the dual vectors, allowing us to write a dual vector as:
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