Program the Micro Bit in C by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Official support is abysmal, very focused on MicroPython and their graphical UI.
The setup impossible to achieve as it requires setting up the Yotta, just like the impossible to setup Compile MicroPython code for Micro Bit locally on Ubuntu 22.04 with your own firmware setup.
So we just use github.com/lancaster-university/microbit-samples + github.com/carlosperate/docker-microbit-toolchain:
docker pull ghcr.io/carlosperate/microbit-toolchain:latest
git clone https://github.com/lancaster-university/microbit-samples
cd microbit-samples
git checkout 285f9acfb54fce2381339164b6fe5c1a7ebd39d5

# Select a sample, builds one at a time. The default one is the hello world.
cp source/examples/hello-world/* source

# Build and flash.
docker run -v $(pwd):/home --rm ghcr.io/carlosperate/microbit-toolchain:latest yotta build
cp build/bbc-microbit-classic-gcc/source/microbit-samples-combined.hex "/media/$USER/MICROBIT/"
.hex file size for the hello world was 447 kB, much better than the MicroPython hello world downloaded from the website which was about 1.8 MB!
If you try it again for a second time from a clean tree, it fails with:
warning: github rate limit for anonymous requests exceeded: you must log in
presumably because after Yotta died it started using GitHub as a registry... sad. When will people learn. Apparently we were at 5000 API calls per hour. But if you don't clean the tree, you will be just fine.
Metric signature matrix by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Angstrom by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Heisenberg picture by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Basically the same as matrix mechanics it seems, just a bit more generalized.
Mathieu group by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Fock space by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Yup, this one Focks you up.
Video 1.
What's a Fock space? by Physics Duck (2023)
Source.
Coulomb gauge by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Alternative to the Lorentz gauge, but less used in general as it is not as nice for relativity invariance.
Bert Hubert by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Co-founder of PowerDNS, an open source dNS implementation.
Homepage: berthub.eu/ says:
I sometimes contribute to science, I care a lot about Europe, innovation, biology & health
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All stuff Ciro cares about too! Cool dude! In particular Ciro loved his quote of I should have loved biology.
He's writing a fun-sounding book about molecular biology as of 2022: berthub.eu/dna-book. Appears to be closed source though. Ciro wonders if he really needs to sell the book for money after all those years though, rather than just publishing it online for free.
Looking at Bert just brings the Dutch Golden Age, and more in particular Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to mind. Epic.
Video 1.
How life is Digital by Bert Hubert (2021)
Source. Just a "boring" overview of the central dogma of molecular biology ;-)
Aaron Swartz by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Aaron, Ciro Santilli will complete your quest to make eduction free. Just legally this time, with the and with the Creative Commons license you helped to create.
Ciro likes how The Internet's Own Boy (2014) explains how Aaron felt like high school was bullshit, and that he could learn whatever he wanted from books, which is one of Ciro's key feelings.
It also mentions how he was a natural teacher from a very early age.
Donald Knuth by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
CNOT gate by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The CNOT gate is a controlled quantum gate that operates on two qubits, flipping the second (operand) qubit if the first (control) qubit is set.
This gate is the first example of a controlled quantum gate that you should study.
Figure 1.
CNOT gate symbol
. Source. The symbol follow the generic symbol convention for controlled quantum gates shown at Figure "Generic controlled quantum gate symbol", but replacing the generic "U" with the Figure "Quantum NOT gate symbol".
To understand why the gate is called a CNOT gate, you should think as follows.
First let's produce a generic quantum state vector where the control qubit is certain to be 0.
On the standard basis:
we see that this means that only and should be possible. Therefore, the state must be of the form:
where and are two complex numbers such that
If we operate the CNOT gate on that state, we obtain:
and so the input is unchanged as desired, because the control qubit is 0.
If however we take only states where the control qubit is for sure 1:
Therefore, in that case, what happened is that the probabilities of and were swapped from and to and respectively, which is exactly what the quantum NOT gate does.
So from this we understand more concretely what "the gate only operates if the first qubit is set to one" means.
Now go and study the Bell state and understand intuitively how this gate is used to produce it.
JT-60 by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Jami (software) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli worked on it for a brief time in 2016, when it was still called Ring, before he got fired. :-)
The people were quite nice and the project idea is fine, Ciro hopes they succeed.
Video 1.
Ring - Peer to peer network for real time communication - FOSDEM 2016 by Ciro Santilli
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Slack (software) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Green fluorescent protein by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The 3D structure of GFP is so cool. It is so clearly a bottle with a fluorescent bit well isolated right in the middle. Like a little lamp.
Imperial College London by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Nice, nice place. Natural sciences only, no bullshit.
University of Edinburgh by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Tux (mascot) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Lie bracket of the rotation group by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Based on the , and derived at Lie algebra of we can calculate the Lie bracket as:

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