Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

bitcoinstrings.com has all strings -n20 strings, we can obtain the whole thing and clean it up a bit with:awk to skip the gazillion "mined by message" repeats.

A lot of in that website stuff appears to be cut up at the 20 mark. As shown in Force of Will, this is possibly because they didn't use -w in strings -n20, and the text after the newlines was less than 20 characters.

That website can be replicated by downloading the Bitcoin blockchain locally, then:

Remove most of the binary crap:

The 1997 Wayback Machine archives are just priceless: web.archive.org/web/19971210065425/http://backrub.stanford.edu/backrub.html. I'm so glad that website exists and started so early. It is just another university research project demo website like any other. Priceless.

Craig Silverstein was the first employee hired, in 1998: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge

In August 1998 they had an their first investment of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems co-founder. Some sources say September 1998. This was an event of legend, the dude dropped by, tested the website for a few minutes, said I like it, and dropped a 100$ check with no paperwork. Google wasn't even incorporated, they had to incorporate to cash the check. They were apparently introduced by one of the teachers, TODO which. Some sources say he had to rush off to another meeting afterwards:

Tried to sell it for 1 million in early 1999... OMG the way the world is. It would be good to learn more about that story, and when they noticed it was fuckup.

One of Google's most interesting stories is how their startup garage owner became an important figure inside Google, and how Sergei married her sister. These were the best garage tenants ever!

Bibliography:

Perfect Git integration belongs in integrated development environments :-)

This was the God OG physics journal of the early 20th century, before the Nazis fucked German science back to the Middle Ages!

Notable papers:

In the case of indel mutations (see limits of gel electrophoresis for minimal size difference issues), it is possible to determine the allele with gel electrophoresis. You can just read out the alleles right in the gel. It is a thing of beauty.

As of 2020, this method appears to be much cheaper than DNA sequencing approaches.

Does not appear to refer to any one specific phylogenetic level, it usually refers to either:

In the Galilean transformation, there are two separate invariants that two inertial frame of reference always agree on between two separate events:

However, in special relativity, neither of those are invariant separately, since space and time are mixed up together.

Instead, there is a new unified invariant: the spacetime-interval, given by:

Note that this distance can be zero for two events separated.

When non-specialists say "Ethernet cable", they usually mean twisted pair for Ethernet over twisted pair.

But of course, this term is much more generic to a more specialized person, since notably fiber optics are also extensively used in Ethernet over fiber.