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Author: cirosantilli

brain.bigb

@@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ Bad:
   * https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-for-web/2049
 * https://help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+across+devices they do have a device sync mechanism
 
+= Protolyst
+{parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
+
+https://protolyst.org/
+
+<Closed source>, no local editing? <PDF> annotation focus.
+
+Co-founded by this dude: https://x.com/iamdrbenmiles
+
 = Quartz
 {parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
 {disambiguate=personal knowledge base}
@@ -435,11 +444,21 @@ TODO can't find any details about his early days? Sad:
 The hard part then is how to make any predictions from it:
 * 2024 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02935-z Fly-brain connectome helps to make predictions about neural activity. Summary of "Connectome-constrained networks predict neural activity across the fly visual system" by J. K. Lappalainen et. al.
 
+2024: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03190-y Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly's neurons in exquisite detail
+
 As of 2022, it had been almost fully decoded by <post mortem connectome extraction with microtome>!!! 135k <neurons>.
 * 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/science/drosophila-fly-brain-connectome.html Why Scientists Have Spent Years Mapping This Creature’s Brain by <New York Times>
 
 	That article mentions the humongous paper https://elifesciences.org/articles/66039 https://elifesciences.org/articles/66039 "A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection" by a group from <Janelia Research Campus>. THe paper is so large that it makes <eLife> hang.
 
+= FlyWire
+{c}
+{parent=Drosophila connectome}
+
+<#Research consortium> investigating the <drosophila connectome>.
+
+Homepage: https://flywire.ai
+
 = Neurokernel
 {parent=Drosophila connectome}
 

condensed-matter-physics.bigb

@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ But it also studies liquids, e.g. notably <superfluidity>.
 
 One thing condensed matter is particularly obsessed with is the fascinating phenomena of <phase transition>.
 
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY5V0q3K0zc]
+{title=What Is <Condensed Matter Physics>? by Erica Calman}
+{description=Cute. Overview of the main fields of physics research. Quick mention of his field, <quantum wells>, but not enough details.}
+
 = Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
 {parent=Condensed matter physics}
 {wiki}
@@ -190,17 +194,21 @@ Experiments:
 
   \Q[If electrical conduction in mercury were purely electronic, there should be no dependence upon the nuclear masses. This dependence of the critical temperature for superconductivity upon isotopic mass was the first direct evidence for interaction between the electrons and the lattice. This supported the <BCS Theory> of lattice coupling of electron pairs.]
 
-Lectures:
-* \Video[http://youtube.com/watch?v=O_zjGYvP4Ps]
-  {title=20. Fermi gases, BEC-BCS crossover by Wolfgang Ketterle (2014)}
-  {description=Part of the "Atomic and Optical Physics" series, uploaded by <MIT OpenCourseWare>.}
+\Video[http://youtube.com/watch?v=O_zjGYvP4Ps]
+{title=20. Fermi gases, BEC-BCS crossover by Wolfgang Ketterle (2014)}
+{description=Part of the "Atomic and Optical Physics" series, uploaded by <MIT OpenCourseWare>.}
+
+Actually goes into the equations.
+
+Notably, https://youtu.be/O_zjGYvP4Ps?t=3278 describes extremely briefly an experimental setup that more directly observes pair condensation.
 
-  Actually goes into the equations.
+\Video[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yx666k2XH8E]
+{title=Superconductivity and Quantum Mechanics at the Macro-Scale - 1 of 2 by Steven Kivelson (2016)}
+{description=For the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. Gives a reasonable basis overview, but does not go into the meat of BCS it at the end.}
 
-  Notably, https://youtu.be/O_zjGYvP4Ps?t=3278 describes extremely briefly an experimental setup that more directly observes pair condensation.
-* \Video[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yx666k2XH8E]
-  {title=Superconductivity and Quantum Mechanics at the Macro-Scale - 1 of 2 by Steven Kivelson (2016)}
-  {description=For the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. Gives a reasonable basis overview, but does not go into the meat of BCS it at the end.}
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2M7P6dTVA]
+{title=The Map of <Superconductivity> by <#Domain of Science>}
+{description=Lacking as usual, but this one is particularly good as the author used to work on the area as he mentions in the video.}
 
 Lecture notes:
 * https://austen.uk/courses/tqm/superconductivity/
@@ -248,19 +256,42 @@ Isn't that awesome!
 = Superconducting temperature
 {parent=Superconductivity}
 
-= Superconducting material
+= Superconducting phase diagram
+{tag=Phase transition}
+{parent=Superconductivity}
+
+There are various possibilities for the axes, but some common ones:
+* temperature (T) vs magnetic field strength (B)
+* temperature (T) vs proportion of each <chemical element> of a <binary alloy>
+* temperature (T) vs pressure
+
+\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Phase_diagram_superconductor_type_I.svg]
+{title=Sketch of the typical <superconducting phase diagram> of a <Type-I superconductor>}
+{disambiguate=Superconducting phase diagram}
+
+\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Superconductor_interactions_with_magnetic_field.png/425px-Superconductor_interactions_with_magnetic_field.png]
+{title=Sketch of the typical <superconducting phase diagram> of a <Type-II superconductor>}
+{disambiguate=Superconducting phase diagram}
+
+= Type of superconductor
 {parent=Superconductivity}
 
 = Type-I superconductor
-{parent=Superconducting material}
+{parent=Type of superconductor}
 {wiki}
 
+\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Phase_diagram_superconductor_type_I.svg]
+{title=Sketch of the typical <superconducting phase diagram> of a <Type-I superconductor>}
+
 = Type-II superconductor
-{parent=Superconducting material}
+{parent=Type of superconductor}
 {wiki}
 
+\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Superconductor_interactions_with_magnetic_field.png/425px-Superconductor_interactions_with_magnetic_field.png]
+{title=Sketch of the typical <superconducting phase diagram> of a <Type-II superconductor>}
+
 = High-temperature superconductivity
-{parent=Superconducting material}
+{parent=Type of superconductor}
 {tag=1987 Nobel Prize in Physics}
 {tag=Unsolved physics problem}
 {title2=HTS}
@@ -299,6 +330,7 @@ LK-99:
 
 = List of High-temperature superconductors
 {parent=High-temperature superconductivity}
+{tag=Superconducting material}
 
 = Yttrium barium copper oxide
 {parent=List of High-temperature superconductors}
@@ -328,6 +360,9 @@ Downside: it is brittle, so how do you make wires out of it? Still, can already
 
 Discovered in 1988, the first <high-temperature superconductivity>[high-temperature superconductor] which did not contain a rare-earth element.
 
+= Superconducting material
+{parent=Superconductivity}
+
 = Applications of superconductivity
 {parent=Superconductivity}
 
@@ -883,6 +918,11 @@ Mentioned at: <video Quantum Computing with Light by Quantum Light University of
 {parent=Metal}
 {wiki}
 
+= Binary alloy
+{parent=Alloy}
+
+Bibliography: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Thermodynamics_and_Statistical_Mechanics/Heat_and_Thermodynamics_(Tatum)/17%3A_Chemical_Thermodynamics/17.09%3A_Binary_Alloys
+
 = Metallurgy
 {parent=Metal}
 {wiki}

cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain.bigb

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This is a collection of cool data found in the Bitcoin blockchain using techniqu
 
 Drop some <Bitcoins> at \b[3KRk7f2JgekF6x7QBqPHdZ3pPDuMdY3eWR] if you are loaded and like this article in order to support some much needed higher educational reform: <sponsor>{full}.
 
-When this kind of non-financial data is embedded into a blockchain some people called an "<inscription (blockchain)>". the study or "early" inscriptions had been called a form of "archaeology"https://docs.ordinals.com/overview.html{ref}http://blockchainarchaeology.com/{ref}. Since this is a collection of archaelogical artifacts, we call it a "<museum>"!
+When this kind of non-financial data is embedded into a blockchain some people called an "<inscription (blockchain)>". The study or "early" inscriptions had been called a form of "archaeology"https://docs.ordinals.com/overview.html{ref}http://blockchainarchaeology.com/{ref}. Since this is a collection of archaelogical artifacts, we call it a "<museum>"!
 
 One really cool thing about inscriptions is that because blockchains are huge <Merkle trees>, it is impossible to censor any one inscription without censoring the entire blockchain. It is also really cool to see people treating the Bitcoin blockchain basically like a global social media feed!
 
@@ -1103,6 +1103,37 @@ Almost all of them are copy pastes of stuff present elsewhere, or boring high re
                        .cxOKNWMMMNd..:oc. :KMMMMWNKkd,
                            .;lxOKXNk.    :XNX0kdc,.
   ``
+* https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0709.txt#L1808[tx 71d9187cbb7b00b4c516df218499bbc301996262cfafc4533fd7916af1fb6315], block 709632, (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/71d9187cbb7b00b4c516df218499bbc301996262cfafc4533fd7916af1fb6315[2021-11-14]) starts a consecutive sequence of transactions that encodes the characters 'Z' and 'N', an ad for the https://zenon.network/[Zenon Network] blockchain. This is the very first taproot enabled block, foreshadowing the great inscription boom that taproot would lead to, notably in the form of <ordinal ruleset inscriptions>.
+  ``
+      ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,      
+                  .:1zzzzzzzzz.       
+                .:qqzzzzqqq,          
+             ,;1zzzzzqqq,             
+          ,;1zzzzzqqq,                
+       ,;qzzzzz1qq,                   
+      ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,      
+
+      ,zzzzzq;.           1zzzz,      
+      ,zzzzzzzzq,         1zzzz,      
+      ,zzzzzzzzzz1:       1zzzz,      
+      ,zzzzq:1zzzzzq;.    1zzzz,      
+      ,zzzzq  ,qzzzzzz1,  1zzzz,      
+      ,zzzzq    .;qzzzzzq:1zzzz,      
+      ,zzzzq       ,qzzzzzzzzzz,      
+      ,zzzzq         .;qzzzzzzz,  
+  ``
+  This ASCII art had been previously https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/qtk492/someone_tried_to_put_some_ascii_art_into_the/[noted by sroose and decoded by brando2131 on Reddit], and was brought to our attention by https://x.com/lilbagwing/status/1842622268314091994[Bagfoot OP446 on twitter]. <Ciro Santilli> had previously spotted the art, but failed to decode it. "ZENON NETWORK" is inscribed just after the art confiming the meaning of the characters, but it does not appear in our ASCII dumps presumably because the string it is too short and surrounded by non-ASCII.
+
+  Each line is encoded with <OP_RETURN>, is 38 bytes long, and starts and ends in 6 spaces, leading to 26 non-whitespace characters per line. The lines appear in scambled order and it is unclear if there is any logic in the ordering or if it was just meant as a little puzzle. But given the nearby "ZENON NETWORK" inscription, this decoding is overwhelmingly likely correct.
+  
+  The following lines also show up in our ASCII dump:
+  ``
+    ;4Fdzw1k=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz;      
+    ,vtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw==.      
+    ;BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q==;      
+    ;tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY;      
+  ``
+  They seem like <base64> encoded data due to the `=` sign padding, but nothing human readable comes out of them, so their meaning remains currently unknown.
 * https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0720.txt#L682[tx cbf7cfb6c074e35e82ea604e2de6c82d00c168d7d7a1205383f93a6f40ee8520] (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/cbf7cfb6c074e35e82ea604e2de6c82d00c168d7d7a1205383f93a6f40ee8520[2022-01-24]) <ASCII typeface> ad for Keepcase, some kind of Bitcoin hardware wallet. Manually converted to horizontal form to not take up too much space here.
   ``
   @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@V/@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@ -1508,33 +1539,6 @@ The following almost certainly contain ASCII art but we were not yet able to dec
   Could it be across? She's apparently <Christian> based on the website.
 
   https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0652.txt#L1[tx b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f], block 652005 (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f[2020-10-09]) also contains some related content with her name, though not identical. Perhaps they are meant to be assembled together somehow? 
-* https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0709.txt#L1808[tx 71d9187cbb7b00b4c516df218499bbc301996262cfafc4533fd7916af1fb6315], block 709632, (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/71d9187cbb7b00b4c516df218499bbc301996262cfafc4533fd7916af1fb6315[2021-11-14 ]) starts a consecutive sequence of transactions that seem to encode an ASCII art. Each line is encoded with <OP_RETURN>, is 38 bytes long, and starts and ends in 6 spaces, leading to 26 non-whitespace characters per line. In block order we have:
-  ``
-        ;4Fdzw1k=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz;      
-        ,zzzzzq;.           1zzzz,      
-        ,zzzzq  ,qzzzzzz1,  1zzzz,      
-         ,;qzzzzz1qq,                   
-               ,;1zzzzzqqq,             
-        ,zzzzq    .;qzzzzzq:1zzzz,      
-        ,zzzzq:1zzzzzq;.    1zzzz,      
-        ,zzzzq         .;qzzzzzzz,      
-        ,vtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw==.      
-        ;BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q==;      
-        ;tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY;      
-        ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,      
-        ,zzzzzzzzq,         1zzzz,      
-                  .:qqzzzzqqq,          
-        ,zzzzq       ,qzzzzzzzzzz,      
-        ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,      
-  ``
-  The strings:
-  ``
-  vtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw==
-  BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q==
-  tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY
-  4Fdzw1k=
-  ``
-  seem like <base64> encoded data due to the `=` sign padding, but nothing human readable comes out of them.
 
 = Custom encoded images of unknown source
 {parent=Images}

particle-physics.bigb

@@ -664,6 +664,10 @@ Full name as shown in channel content: Samuel Dietterich. Other accounts:
 {title=Sam Dietterich interview by Dietterich Labs (2022)}
 {description=TODO find patience to watch and summarize key points.}
 
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uThLW1K6OE]
+{title=The Sting Of Soft Corruption: My College Experience by Dietterich Labs}
+{description=<Academia is broken> video.}
+
 = Pretty Much Physics
 {c}
 {parent=Particle physics YouTube channel}

quantum-mechanics.bigb

@@ -960,6 +960,12 @@ We notice that the solution has <continuous spectrum (functional analysis)>, sin
 {parent=Solutions of the Schrodinger equation}
 {wiki}
 
+= Quantum well
+{parent=Particle in a box}
+{wiki}
+
+\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Quantum_well.svg]
+
 = Quantum harmonic oscillator
 {parent=Solutions of the Schrodinger equation}
 {wiki}

relativistic-quantum-mechanics.bigb

@@ -368,6 +368,10 @@ Needs an inhomogenous <magnetic field> to move the atoms up or down: <magnetic d
 \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vSQ9u1SP2M]
 {title=Introduction to Spintronics by Aurélien Manchon (2020)}
 
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cID4fKraWkE]
+{title=The Spin on Electronics by Stuart Parkin}
+{description=2013.}
+
 = Spin valve
 {parent=Spintronics}
 {wiki}

taxonomy.bigb

@@ -1310,10 +1310,19 @@ Now that's some basal shit! It's basically a fucking blob!!! Except that it is f
 
 \Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Trichoplax_adhaerens_photograph.png/898px-Trichoplax_adhaerens_photograph.png]
 
-= Arthropod
+= Panarthropoda 
 {parent=Animal subclade}
 {wiki}
 
+A bunch of things that looks like insects, notably <arthropods> and <tardigrades>.
+
+= Panarthropoda subclade
+{parent=Panarthropoda}
+
+= Arthropod
+{parent=Panarthropoda subclade}
+{wiki}
+
 = Drosophila melanogaster
 {c}
 {parent=Arthropod}
@@ -1344,6 +1353,15 @@ Just imagine this together with a <Drosophila connectome> on a single <brain-in-
 \Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20230302220755im_/https://github.com/NeLy-EPFL/NeuroMechFly/raw/main/docs/images/perturbation.gif]
 {source=https://github.com/NeLy-EPFL/NeuroMechFly}
 
+= Tardigrade
+{title2=Indestructible insect-like}
+{title2=Water bear}
+{parent=Panarthropoda subclade}
+{wiki}
+
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV2wIfDzFMk]
+{title=We FINALLY Understand Why Tardigrades Refuse to Die by Dr Ben Miles}
+
 = Chordate
 {parent=Animal subclade}
 {wiki}
@@ -1562,10 +1580,19 @@ As of 2020, account for about 20% of the known <mammal> species!!! https://www.s
 * they can fly, so they can move out further
 * their eating habits are highly specialized
 
-= Mouse
+= Euarchontoglires
 {parent=Placentalia subclade}
 {wiki}
 
+<Mice>, <#rabbits> and <primates>.
+
+= Euarchontoglires subclade
+{parent=Euarchontoglires}
+
+= Mouse
+{parent=Euarchontoglires subclade}
+{wiki}
+
 = Rat
 {parent=Mouse}
 {wiki}
@@ -1605,7 +1632,7 @@ Databases and projects:
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716027/ The Knockout Mouse Project (2004)
 
 = Primate
-{parent=Placentalia subclade}
+{parent=Euarchontoglires subclade}
 {wiki}
 
 = Primate subclade
@@ -1639,8 +1666,17 @@ Good <cladogram>: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homo&oldid=11559006
 
 \Include[human]{parent=Australopithecine}
 
-= Carnivora
+= Laurasiatheria 
 {parent=Placentalia subclade}
+{wiki}
+
+<Carnivora>[Carnivores], <ungulates>, hedgehogs.
+
+= Laurasiatheria subclade
+{parent=Laurasiatheria}
+
+= Carnivora
+{parent=Laurasiatheria subclade}
 {title2=Cats, dogs, bears, seals}
 {wiki}
 
@@ -1651,7 +1687,7 @@ Good <cladogram>: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homo&oldid=11559006
 {parent=Carnivora subclade}
 
 = Ungulate
-{parent=Placentalia subclade}
+{parent=Laurasiatheria subclade}
 {title2=Cows, pigs, whales}
 {wiki}