François and Joseph Blanc by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Very interesting story! A predecessor to microwave transmission for trading.
Video 1.
How The First Ever Telecoms Scam Worked by Tom Scott (2018)
Source. Amazing how they used control signals to hide the information from officials on either side.
Alexanderson alternator by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Calcium carbonate polymorph by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Nature (journal) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ended up under Springer in 2015 after a massive merger.
ASM International by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Parent/predecessor of ASML.
Apostle not in the Twelve by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Cornell University by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Princeton University by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
University of Chicago by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
AMD product by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
History of Amazon by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
I wonder where the spray painted sign went: twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1229952158667288576/photo/1. As mentioned at officechai.com/startups/amazon-first-office/ and elsewhere, Jeff did all he could to save money, e.g. he made the desks himself from pieces of wood. Mentioned e.g. at youtu.be/J2xGBlT0cqY?t=345 from Video 4. "Jeff Bezos presentation at MIT (2002)".
Video 1.
Amazon.com report by Computer Chronicles (1996)
Source. Contains some good footage of their early storehouse.
Video 2.
Jeff Bezos interview by Chuck Films (1997)
Source. On the street, with a lot of car noise. CC BY-SA, nice.
Video 3.
Order from Bulgaria by Jeff Bezos (2002)
Source. Full video: Video 4. "Jeff Bezos presentation at MIT (2002)"
Video 4. Source. Good talk:
Video 5.
Jeff Bezos Revealed by Bloomberg (2015)
Source.
Video 6.
cosine by Jeff Bezos (2018)
Source.
PDE mention in another video from 2009: youtu.be/TYwhIO-OXTs?t=118
Full original video from The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. (2018): youtu.be/zN1PyNwjHpc?t=1544
Bezos also told PDE stuff in interviews as early as 1999: archive.ph/a3zBK.
Bibliography:
Cluster decay by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Can AGI be trained in simulations? by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Or is real word data necessary, e.g. with robots?
Fundamental question related to Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games.
Bibliography:
Lorentz ether theory by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Einstein coefficients by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
XPath by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
XPath kind of died with the rise of CSS selectors around the beginnning of the 2010's. But that is a shame. XPath is a good standard, and was generally more powerful than CSS selectors for many many years.
Chromium (web browser) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Google is trying to kill it as of 2021: www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/chromium-sync-google-api-removed The lack of sync is a major major blow. So selfish. Google makes billions, and it won't give in a little bit of settings storage...

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