The most awesome systems programmers by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
Notable mentions:
Other notable people that are likely also awesome but Ciro has less familiarity with their contributions:
- Dwayne Richard Hipp from SQLite
- Daniel Stenberg from cURL
- Michael Niedermayer also from FFmpeg. ikaruga.co.uk/~snacky/mn.html highlights his brutal directness and efficiency, and sometimes sense of humour
Steve Jobs quote on saving lives with a faster boot by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 1970-01-01
This idea also comes up in other sources of course.
Margin Call (2011) bridge scene
. Source. Calculus of variations is the field that searches for maxima and minima of Functionals, rather than the more elementary case of functions from to .
Contains the first sporadic groups discovered by far: 11 and 12 in 1861, and 22, 23 and 24 in 1973. And therefore presumably the simplest! The next sporadic ones discovered were the Janko groups, only in 1965!
Each is a permutation group on elements. There isn't an obvious algorithmic relationship between and the actual group.
TODO initial motivation? Why did Mathieu care about k-transitive groups?
Their; k-transitive group properties seem to be the main characterization, according to Wikipedia:
Looking at the classification of k-transitive groups we see that the Mathieu groups are the only families of 4 and 5 transitive groups other than symmetric groups and alternating groups. 3-transitive is not as nice, so let's just say it is the stabilizer of and be done with it.
Mathieu group section of Why Do Sporadic Groups Exist? by Another Roof (2023)
Source. Only discusses Mathieu group but is very good at that.One important quantum mechanics experiment, which using quantum effects explain the dependency of specific heat capacity on temperature, an effect which is not present in the Dulong-Petit law.
This is the solid-state analogue to the black-body radiation problem. It is also therefore a quantum mechanics-specific phenomenon.
Michelson Interferometer by Amrita Vlab (2013)
Source. Shows the optical controls and alignment in more detail.Michelson Interferometer by TSG Physics (2012)
Source. TSG PHysiQuantum electrodynamics bibliographycs is the channel from the MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group. In the video they produce a very clear round interference pattern.The Engineering Puzzle of Storing Trillions of Bits in your Smartphone / SSD using Quantum Mechanics by Branch Education (2020)
Source. Nice animations show how quantum tunnelling is used to set bits in flash memory.scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=5051&context=etd_theses proves that the Mathieu group is simple in just 200 pages. Nice.
How AMD went from nearly Bankrupt to Booming by Brandon Yen (2021)
Source. - youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=118 Buldozer series CPUs was a disaster
- youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=324 got sued for marketing claims on number of cores vs number of hyperthreads
- youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=556 Ryzen first gen was rushed and a bit buggy, but it had potential. Gen 2 fixed those.
- youtu.be/Rtb4mjIACTY?t=757 Ryzen Gen 3 surpased single thread performance of Intel. Previously Gen 2 had won multicore.
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